Update 3 – Portland Startup Week – Docker, Fig, Women in Tech, Wearables & A Hackfest

Here’s some great events coming up the first week of February for Portland Startup Week! Are you planning on attending any of these or others during the week? Let me know of other good events related to Portland Startup Week and I’ll get those posted too. Sailing Away From Dependency Hell with Docker & Fig... Continue reading →

Update 2 – Speaking at Node Summit and Node.js Club SF

I’ll be puddle jumping down to San Francisco on the 9th to teach a workshop at Node Summit titled “Node Continuous Integration to Delivery” and then I’ll swing into the Node.js Club SF to give a short (45 minute) deep dive into who, what, where, when, and why of “Node Continuous Integration and Delivery”. Continue reading →

Update 1 – I’ll be teaching the Code Fellows Bootcamp and Unix & Git for Everyone

In the coming month there are three courses I’ll be teaching here in the grand city of Portland, Oregon. Two of the courses are one day Unix & Git for Everyone (Jan 31 and Feb 28) courses and the big course is the Computer Science & Web Development Bootcamp (Feb 2 – Feb 27). So... Continue reading →

Where are the Part Time ~20-30 hrs Dev Gigs?

Over the years one of the things that I’ve seen missing in disproportionate amounts are many opportunities for part time work in the software development industry. There are two things about this fact that make me kind of chuckle at the ignorance behind them. Much of the time there isn’t any part time work because... Continue reading →

My Train of Thought on JavaScript, Web Analytics, & Segment

Beware, this is my brain dump as I attempt to figure out Segment integrations. It might seem disconnected at first but I’ll make every effort to loop things back around. First a few pieces of context, or more simply my goals for this blog entry: 1. My goal here is to implement a server side... Continue reading →