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I’m happy to announce that going forward you’ll be able to read my articles on DZone as well as spf13.com. DZone has invited me to join their MVB program. They describe their program as: DZone’s Most Valuable Blogger program brings together a group of highly talented bloggers, authors, and technologists actively writing about topics of …

At 10gen we had new headshots taken recently. I think mine came out great. I took this opporitunity to play with GitHub pages and update http://stevefrancia.com. You should goto http://stevefrancia.com and checkout my new personal page. If you like it, fork it. The entire page is here https://github.com/spf13/spf13.github.com, it being a derivative of https://github.com/weightshift/The-Personal-Page.

I wrote a book. Published by O’Reilly, it’s now available on Amazon, O’Reilly Media and a bunch of other sites. It’s available as a ebook as well as in print.

I’m a huge fan of Windows 7. It’s the first time I’ve ever run a Microsoft OS on my primary (home) machine.  I’ve compiled a set of programs that I have found to be invaluable in using Windows for serious development and computing. All are free and clean of any ads or spyware.

Last week I had the opportunity to attend the LDS Church’s SORT tech conference. Nearly 1200 people were in attendance. There were 23 concurrent tracks and I was able to present two presentations and be on a panel with other NoSQL solutions including Cassandra, CouchDB, Neo4j, Riak and MarkLogic. The panel went for 90 minutes …

About 6 weeks ago I left OpenSky to join 10gen. As you likely know, 10gen produces a popular open source NoSQL database called MongoDB. This has been a big week for 10gen. We’ve just made the headlines with two big stories: First we closed a new round of financing and second, we’ve release our 2.0 version of MongoDB.  Both …

About two years ago a friend introduced me to a different kind of database. It was one of the many new NoSQL solutions entering the marketplace. I spent about a month vetting it and all the other NoSQL databases and concluded that MongoDB would be the solution that would change the way development happened and …

I’ve decided to expand the scope of this site a bit to be more than just a blog. It makes sense, many of my posts are how tos and often for my own projects. Additionally now each project will have a legitimate project “homepage” for things like GitHub where that’s requested. So without further ado… …

As part of my new years resolution to get in shape and spend less dough I decided that I’d be better of walking from Grand Central to my office on 18th St. I save ~$5 a day not taking the subway and get all the extra benefit of walking the 1.5 miles.

Buying gifts for geeks is easy, you can’t go wrong with Star Wars (episodes 4-6), Star Trek, Battlestar Gallactica or Serenity. Buying a hacker a gift is a bit harder as they are usually quite a bit more discerning. I’ve compiled a list of the best gifts to get for the hacker in your life.