This coming Wednesday I’m aiming for a Riak Beer Hack. Yup, it’s right after the Riak Nerd Lunch in Seattle. Thanks Amtrak Cascades for the ability to get from Seattle to Portland with wifi and not missing a beat! Train travel for the win! At Bailey’s my intent is to bring a deployed Riak Environment... Continue reading →

Wow, so this week has been an intense return to Portland for me. I got back earlier in the week and hit the ground doing a bit of catch up after being on the rails for two weeks to Denver, over to San Francisco and then back up here to Portland. The whole time cramming... Continue reading →

Here’s a few of the meetups I’m going to aim to attend this month. Hope to see some fellow coders there. PADNUG… …is having a TypeScript Introduction. There’s a lot of those made up marketing words thrown around in the description such as “Application-Scale JavaScript Development”. Maybe TypeScript is magic, but overall it seems to... Continue reading →

The inaugural Riak Meetup kicks off tomorrow at 7:00pm. The crew at AppFog will be hosting the meetup, with several of the Basho team coming into town with two talks: 7:15pm – Eric Redmond @coderoshi will present “Next Generation Searching with Yokozuna“. Riak Search was created to expand Riak’s query options. It’s worked well enough... Continue reading →

This next week I’m off to San Francisco for a coder’s vacation. I don’t exactly know what a coder’s vacation is but that’s what I’m aiming to define! I’ll put together a description of my idea of a coder’s vacation below. There are going to be several components about this vacation that really make it... Continue reading →