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#OSB, #CLS and #OSCON – 09
I had the opportunity to attend the Community Leadership Summit in San Jose last weekend followed by OSCON in the same venue. The whole experience of these in conjunction gave me a lot of interesting...
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Meet Kimta
The year 2010 so far has been personally very hard on me, however there has been a bit of shining light. Starting in mid January Megan and I started tossing around the idea of having an animal in our...
View ArticleConsidering in-house web automation?
Recently I have had numerous conversations with people at various tiers of companies all over the place who are toying with the idea of building their own test automation and continuous integration...
View ArticleMy new gig – Sauce Labs
After almost two years of working at Slide Inc, I have started my new job at Sauce Labs. The press release can be found here: “Sauce Labs Adds Windmill Test Framework Co-Creator Adam Christian to...
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iPad’s, iPhone’s, iThink I’m going broke
Some of you may know that over the past few years I have been a bit of a early adopter, when it comes to Apple products. A few years ago, it was considerably easier — since the rate of product releases...
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September, Month of Travel
This summer has been relatively light on conference travel for me, minus some time in Portland for Open Source Bridge.. (which was awesome, again). Next week I will be heading up to Couch Camp at...
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CouchCamp was great
I just wanted to drop a quick note outlining some of my thoughts about CouchCamp (or you could call it “Swiss Family Robinson” meets database geeks anonymous). First and foremost — having a tech...
View ArticleNode.JS is a Swimming Pool
Over the past six months I have heard about the unbelievable awesomeness involved in this project called Node.JS. At first I thought, “Server Side JS NOT on the JVM” – YAY! Then after a few days of...
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JSConf and NodeConf – 2011
Last week was both JSConf and NodeConf in Portland, OR and it was absolutely epic. I spend all year looking forward to the various Portland conferences, but this year happened to also be my first...
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The Perils of Language Learning
In 9th grade I had to pick between Spanish or French and even though I had French speaking family at home, I had absolutely no interest in either. And to make matters worse, I had a pretty serious...
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Geddy.js Rocks
About 7 months ago, I decided I was going to try to build a small web app for doing group events. The concept is nothing revolutionary, but I had some differentiating ideas and have a need to be...
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The whole “hiring developers” thing
Approaching a year ago I was asked to step into the VP of Development job at Sauce Labs, which in retrospect is the first time I have ever had a job that was basically “full-time” management. I...
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A Farewell to Sauce Labs
Five and a half years ago when I started at Sauce Labs it was a small group (in a small office) with a mission from god to not only build a cloud service for test automation, but to build a global...
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Google’s “Project FI”– Can you hear me now?
A month or so before I started considering a trip abroad, I read a blog post about Google’s “Project FI”. The concept that Google wants to become it’s own cellular carrier (or even become an...
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Backpacking Europe, Tips and Gear
I did essentially no research before heading on my trip, so I thought it might be useful for someone out there if I wrote up a brain dump of all my conclusions regarding travel logistics. Enjoy....
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The Android Experiment, Cold Turkey iPhone.
My friends have always been divided, either you use the iPhone and can’t imagine otherwise, or you use Android (swallow the jokes about battery life and clunky UI) – but you tout the ecosystem, and...
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