Footprints in the Sand
Footprints in the Sand …the Discordian version I dreamed that I was walking down the beach with the Goddess. And I looked back and saw footprints in the sand. But sometimes there were two pairs of...
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Inbox as a task list
So, yesterday I read this. It echoed a lot of how I approach my inbox as a task list, and some of the ideas there pushed my inbox-fu to black belt levels. However I work in a different environment then...
View ArticleRunning and Optimizing Production apps on Heroku
Over the last few months, I’ve done a few webinars. On was Running Production Apps on Heroku, and the other was Optimizing Production Apps on Heroku. Below the fold I have the slides and video from...
View ArticleTo comment or not to comment
One of the trends that I personally have noticed is the removal of the ability to comment from articles on blogs. I’m not sure which camp I’m in, so I decided to preform an experiment. I turned off...
View ArticleTalk at Lone Star Ruby Conf
I was invited to speak on a panel about Cloud Computing at Lone Star Ruby Confrence this year. It was a good time, and not much blood was spilled. After the break, find the video…
View ArticleReadings on Mindfulness
Just a disclaimer – I am a Buddhist, so I tend to frame my thinking in Buddhist language. However I am not a religious Buddhist. The only reason that I identify as Buddhist is that the philosophies put...
View ArticleAutomated Backup to HP Cloud Object Storage, Code Included
(cross posted from the HPCloud Blog. With 75% more typos!) One of the most basic problems with systems that need to persist data, is making sure that you can recover those systems in the case of a...
View ArticleIaaS < PaaS < ????
In the mid 2000’s a bookseller accidentally changed the world. Yes, that bookseller was Amazon, and the change was the introduction of a IaaS. Quite possibly the first Infrastructure as a Service. At...
View ArticleAutomated Nanoc deploys via git push
I’m playing around with Nanoc – a static site generator. Basically, nanoc allows you you write your blog posts offline, and then generates your entire site in raw HTML. This allows you to host a site...
View ArticleYet Another Talk
I was pressed into service to do a training on Heroku for about 300 developers. It was a fun experience, and I really like to go back and watch myself so that I can critique my performance. Hopefully...
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