I recently dove into working with some tooling at Jetbrains. The first thing I needed to take a dive into is the latest EAP of IntelliJ IDEA 13. If you do any sort of Java development you’ve definitely heard of IntelliJ, and if you work in other realms like C#, Node.js & JavaScript, Python or... Continue reading →

I attended the PDX Cloud meeting to present, but more to ask a question. Here’s how I posed that question (slide deck at the bottom of this blog entry). I frame the scenario of the distributed development world of cloud computing, dive into the vertical world of enterprise dev and then throw down the big... Continue reading →

A few months ago I posted a poll to ask what courses I should put together next. I just wrapped up and am putting the final edits and finishing touches on a Pluralsight Course on distributed databases, focusing on Riak. On the poll the top three courses, by a decent percentage of votes included the... Continue reading →

…and another update on Junction. The review slipped past me this week. A little food poisoning will do that to a person. But I’m kicking again. A Quick Summary The RSS/News Feed section of the app has been built and put into action. So if you pull the latest code and run the application, navigate... Continue reading →

…about the secret language that machines talk… Last week I began a new effort to get in and not just sit on the sidelines and watch what my favorite startups are doing but actually talk to, increase the visibility of and get to know what’s going on. The team at Smart Mocha was more than... Continue reading →