Like to code? Like to learn? Live in Portland? Well then you ought to join me in my great journey to the dark west hills of the lands of Hillsboro and Intel! I’ll be taking the following grand journey from Portland out to Intel to give a presentation on Pluralsight and teaching, learning, and getting... Continue reading →

I’ve recently setup a completely clean virtual machine for doing web, system, and related development on Ubuntu. Here’s the shortlist of what I’ve installed after a default installation. The ongoing list of tools and related items I have installed on my Linux dev box I’m keeping here, and it will be kept as a living... Continue reading →

I’m so mad!!! No, actually I’m not. This is cool. It’s so confusing! No, it’s actually not. Use your learnings and read this Node Forward and read Max’s @maxogden “What you need to know.” gist. It’ll be so hard to test this and test with node.js. Not really, again, read the threads there are a... Continue reading →

First, get it installed. This takes less than a minute, at least on a *nix based machine. I’ve no idea what it takes on Windows, but hey, at least it’s available there too! I did a clean curl and install as shown. It took about 14 seconds solely because I wasn’t typing very fast today.... Continue reading →