Mapping Domain Names with name.com, Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic Load Balancer and AWS Route 53

I finally wrapped up my name server and DNS mapping needs with Name.com, Route 53 and Elastic Beanstalk. Since this was a little confusing I thought a short write up was in order. Thanks to Evan @evandbrown for helping out! The first thing needed is a delegation set of name servers for your DNS and... Continue reading →

9 Ways To Survive The Shit Storm of Developer Evangelism

I started to write a blog entry a few months ago about my time doing developer evangelism. First in practice, along with product management and team leadership and then as a full time developer evangelist with Basho. Then I felt many different things, nothing which translated into a very useful blog entry. Well past any... Continue reading →

Docker Course, Ubuntu, WordPress, Angular.js, Notes, Rich Hickey, Datomic…

Updates, updates, updates… Docker Course @ Pluralsight I added a new course on Docker to my Pluralsight list of courses today. This joins my one other course on Riak, which I’m aiming to have more added to that list in the future! Check those out and let me know what you think, how I could... Continue reading →

Sexism, Racism and t-shirts… Why Stop There?

I attend a lot of technical conferences, hackathons, workshops and all sorts of events where I get loaded up with t-shirts. Ridiculous amounts of t-shirts. Generally I love this! I have had a basic standard about all of these t-shirts. If it is a company and product that I know has done well by its... Continue reading →

Plotting Good Things in Portland :: pdxbridge.js / WTF Databases /

Several people got together yesterday to start planning things for 2014 in PDX. It ranged from coding workshops to PDX Node to Node PDX to what kind of food to eat at for lunch. Ya know, daily tactical things that come along with the big picture items. 😉 Two things that I want to bring... Continue reading →