I’ve been diligent and started a search of Platform as a Service Providers, so far my list includes: EngineYard Heroku AWS Beanstalk Windows Azure AppFog Tier3 CloudFoundry OpenShift IBM PaaS Google App Engine CloudBees Who else is there? Help me out in creating a list of every possible offering we can find! Cheers! Continue reading →

Today and yesterday I specifically aimed to meet and interview a number of sponsors and companies attending OSCON. My big quest I’d assigned myself was to determine who was doing what, where, when, and why in the Open Source Community. Of course I wasn’t going to get to every company, but I was going to... Continue reading →

This is just a quick getting started I walked through to get Sinatra going on OS-X. 1sudo gem install sinatra 2sudo gem install shotgun 3sudo gem install haml 4sudo gem install unicorn After installing these things I created a new folder in a Rubymine Project. New Empty Project in Rubymine I added a Ruby Class... Continue reading →

First a few tidbits on the latest SDKs. For the latest Windows Azure SDK go check out the Microsoft MSDN Site. For the latest for AWS (Amazon Web Services) SDK check out the AWS .NET Site. These two SDKs are great for customers who want to build on the bare bones X platform. Now whatever... Continue reading →