DevXcon San Francisco

I just finished attending DevXcon in San Francisco at the beginning of the week before last. It’s the way the DataStax crew welcomed me into the family. It was a solidly awesome time, a great way to get started, and I’ve rated it “would do again!” Tamao (@mewzherder), Matthew (@matthewrevell), and fellow organizers did a... Continue reading →

Let’s Really Discuss Lock In

For to long lock-in has been referred to with an almost entirely negative connotation even though it can be inferred in positive and negative situations. The fact is that there’s a much more nuanced and balanced range to benefits and disadvantages of lock-in. Often this may even be referred to as this or that dependency,... Continue reading →

A New Adventure of Multi-model Distribute Graph Time Series […etc…] Database(s) Explorations Begins!

I arrived at the airport, sending a few tweets of this or that nature with all of this Github and Microsoft News. I have a great view out the window from the Alaska Lounge just before heading to the D gates. For you aeronautics fans like myself, here’s a picture of that view and a... Continue reading →

IDE Launcher via Amtrak Cascades to Portland for ML4ALL

Got fidgety on the train, and just wanted to write code, on the way down to Portland for ML4ALL so I wrote up some decision tree code on determining what IDE’s I want opened up. Ya know, if you do something more than twice it needs automated, so I’ve started the process of automating all... Continue reading →