Ok, so many of the conferences out there you’re going to get fed the company line. You’ll probably experience some odd behaviors and people pushing product on you. If you’ve got the same feeling about conferences as me, and you’d like to experience these things at a conference: A diverse audience of many different people... Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →