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 →

Orchestrate.io, Webstorm, Hacking Some Code and Project Pivots

In the previous blog entries “Orchestrate.io JavaScript Client Library” and “How to Build an NPM Package, Beginning the Symphonize Project” I kicked off a client library project. However, as things go in techlandia, they have changed. Just a few days after I created the project I learned of Steve Kaliski’s project he’d just rolled out... Continue reading →

Sorry Database Nerds, Nobody Actually Gives a Shit…

So I’ve been in more than a few conversations about data structures, various academic conversations and other notions about where and how data should be stored. I’ve been on projects and managed projects that involve teams of people determining how to manage data so that other people can just not manage data. They want to... Continue reading →

Orchestrate.io JavaScript Client Library

Today I’m starting a project working with Orchestrate.io’s API & open source software collaborations. More about the project in a moment, let’s get up to speed on what I’ll be including in this project. My main focus is to build a client library to access Orchestrate.io. During building this I’ll dive into the key value,... Continue reading →

Orchestrate.io, Stop Dealing With the Database Infrastructure!

In this interview I talk to Matt Heitzenroder, Co-founder of Orchestrate.io and previous general manager of Basho Europe, data nerd and love of data types. In this video he talks about the data types, data structures, schema or schema-less options, graph, stores and other ideas behind Orchestrate.io. He also jumps into what exactly Orchestrate’s Mission... Continue reading →