InfoQ interview - Go Language at 13 Years
I had the pleasure of speaking with Olimpiu Pop from InfoQ about the Go language and community. …
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development
Gophers Say GopherCon Edition
Go Time panelists Natalie & Jon join forces with Go Team members Steve Francia, Katie …
Modern Enterprise Applications with Go - Go Day 2021
Go, the language of cloud infrastructure, is maturing into the language of modern enterprise …
Google Cloud Next 2021 - Modern Enterprise Applications with Go
Over the past couple of years, Go has matured to a complete end-to-end offering with seamless …
Break things on purpose podcast
I had the privilage of sitting down with my friend Jason Yee as a guest on his podcast. Listen …
Grokking Go.dev - Go Time Podcast
I had the privilage of joining my coworker Julie Qiu as we talked with our friends Carmen, Mat …
The Legacy of Go
This presentation was developed for GoLab in Firenze Italy and delivered as the closing keynote …
What Should a Modern Practical Programming Language Look Like
Keynote delivered at The Landing Festival – Berlin. This presentation describes the many …
Go – On The Shoulders of Giants
This presentation was developed for Curry On and delivered as the closing keynote of the …
演讲：Go, a global phenomenon (英语演讲)
This presentation was given in 深圳市 China, July 2018 as part of the InfoQ ArchSummit conference. …
New Go Branding Strategy
I joined the GoTime podcast and told them EVERYTHING about Go’s new branding strategy (and …
State of the Go Nation – Gophercon Brasil 2017
This talk is an overview of the entire Go project. It covers “what we’ve done”, “why we did it” …
State of the Go Nation – Gotham Go 2017
An overview of the entire Go project. It covers “what we’ve done”, “why we did it” and “where …
State Of The Gopher Nation - Golang UK 2017
I am at GolangUK in London, having just finished giving the opening keynote. I was a bit more …
How to Contribute to Go
I wrote this presentation with Jessie Frazelle. She made it look very nice and delivered it at …
Life, Liberty, and Golang
A semi-autobiographical presentation given to the winners of Google’s 2017 Code-in …
Building an Awesome CLI App in Go – OSCON 2017
A workshop written and delivered by Steve Francia and Ashley McNamara at OSCON 2017 outlining …
Building an Awesome Cli App in Go – Craft
A workshop written and delivered by Steve Francia and Ashley McNamara at CRAFT 2017 outlining …
Go Developer Survey
I joined GoTime to talk about the results of the 2016 Go Developer Survey and other interesting …
Hugo goes global
Hugo is going Global! Hugo 0.17, released today, is our best and fastest release ever! Hugo …
I’m joining the Go team at Google
I am honored to share that I have joined Google as a member of the Go team and will be …
7 common mistakes in Go – GopherFest 2015
Given at GopherFest 2015. This is an updated version of the talk I gave in NYC Nov 14 at …
What Every Open Source Project Needs
In the last few years open source has transformed the software industry. From Android to …
How To Be A Good Open Source Community Member
A friend of mine who is a very talented writer recently became intrigued with open source and …
7 Common mistakes in Go and when to avoid them – Gotham Go
Not a generic list of programming mistakes, these are the lessons I wish I learned earlier …
Hugo Summer 2014 Update
Hugo, the fast and flexible static site generator, is really coming of age. I wanted to give a …
Evangelism is NOT Sales
I recently had a discussion with a CFO of a technology company. We were meeting because he is …
Go for Object Oriented Programmers
If you’re a OO programmer, especially one with a background with dynamic languages and are curious about go then this talk is for you. We will cover everything you need to know to leverage your existing skills and quickly start coding in golang
Using MongoDB with Go and mgo
This presentation will give developers an introduction and practical experience of using MongoDB with the Go language. MongoDB Chief Developer Advocate & Gopher Steve Francia presents plainly what you need to know about using MongoDB with Go.
Getting Started with Go
This presentation will walk you through the steps needed to get started with Go.
Pointers vs References
Some languages including C, C++ support pointers. Other languages including C++, Java, Python, …
Is Go an Object Oriented language?
To truly understand what it means to be ‘object-oriented’ you need to look back at the …
9 MongoDB 2.6 Drivers Released
I’m pleased to announce the coordinated release of drivers in 9 languages in preparation for …
Cross Compiling with Go
One of the great features of golang is that you can compile executables for many different …
A modern CLI Commander for go
Cobra is a commander providing a simple interface to create powerful modern CLI interfaces similar to git & go tools. In addition to providing an iterface, Cobra simultaneously provides a controller to organize your application code.
Refactoring with go fmt
using go fmt to quickly refactor your code
Building Modern Web Applications
I gave this presentation to a packed house at DevCon5 in NYC July 24th. DevCon5 is a web …
MongoDB and PHP Webinar
Workshop on MongoDB and PHP
Hugo: A fast and flexible static site generator built in GoLang
Hugo Website Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, easy …
Nitro : A quick and simple profiler for golang
Nitro is a quick and easy performance analyzer library for golang. It is useful for comparing …
spf13-vim : Steve Francia's Vim Distribution
spf13-vim is a distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, Gvim and MacVim. It is a good …
Release early, release often to minimize risk
Release Cycles have been debated for the last 30 years and will certainly be for the next 30. …
Getting Started with Symfony2
In a follow up to my popular post on Symfony2, the open source PHP framework we use at …
On Symfony2
Symfony2 is the latest brainchild of Fabien Potencier.
Software Development's Magic Triangle
There’s an old adage “Fast, Cheap, Good; Pick Two”. This situation is called a magic triangle. …
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go
Cobra & Viper Fortify Security as Part of GitHub Secure Open Source Fund
When foundational open source projects like Cobra and Viper level up their security game, the entire ecosystem wins. Here's what we learned together.
spf13 Google -->
I’m leaving my role as the Product Lead for the Go Language at Google. I’m super proud of …
InfoQ interview - Go Language at 13 Years
I had the pleasure of speaking with Olimpiu Pop from InfoQ about the Go language and community. …
Gophers Say GopherCon Edition
Go Time panelists Natalie & Jon join forces with Go Team members Steve Francia, Katie …
Modern Enterprise Applications with Go - Go Day 2021
Go, the language of cloud infrastructure, is maturing into the language of modern enterprise …
Google Cloud Next 2021 - Modern Enterprise Applications with Go
Over the past couple of years, Go has matured to a complete end-to-end offering with seamless …
Rust vs Go Panel at RustLab Conference
The folks at Develer liked JT’s and my article Rust vs Go - Better together so much they …
Rust vs Go: Better Together
While others may see Rust and Go as competitive programming languages, neither the Rust nor the …
Break things on purpose podcast
I had the privilage of sitting down with my friend Jason Yee as a guest on his podcast. Listen …
Grokking Go.dev - Go Time Podcast
I had the privilage of joining my coworker Julie Qiu as we talked with our friends Carmen, Mat …
The Legacy of Go
This presentation was developed for GoLab in Firenze Italy and delivered as the closing keynote …
Go Q&A Session - Utah Go Users Group
I was traveling with my son in Utah, visiting my old university and connected with our Go Users …
What Should a Modern Practical Programming Language Look Like
Keynote delivered at The Landing Festival – Berlin. This presentation describes the many …
Go – On The Shoulders of Giants
This presentation was developed for Curry On and delivered as the closing keynote of the …
演讲：Go, a global phenomenon (英语演讲)
This presentation was given in 深圳市 China, July 2018 as part of the InfoQ ArchSummit conference. …
New Go Branding Strategy
I joined the GoTime podcast and told them EVERYTHING about Go’s new branding strategy (and …
State of the Go Nation – Gophercon Brasil 2017
This talk is an overview of the entire Go project. It covers “what we’ve done”, “why we did it” …
State of the Go Nation – Gotham Go 2017
An overview of the entire Go project. It covers “what we’ve done”, “why we did it” and “where …
State Of The Gopher Nation - Golang UK 2017
I am at GolangUK in London, having just finished giving the opening keynote. I was a bit more …
How to Contribute to Go
I wrote this presentation with Jessie Frazelle. She made it look very nice and delivered it at …
Life, Liberty, and Golang
A semi-autobiographical presentation given to the winners of Google’s 2017 Code-in …
Building an Awesome CLI App in Go – OSCON 2017
A workshop written and delivered by Steve Francia and Ashley McNamara at OSCON 2017 outlining …
Building an Awesome Cli App in Go – Craft
A workshop written and delivered by Steve Francia and Ashley McNamara at CRAFT 2017 outlining …
Go Developer Survey
I joined GoTime to talk about the results of the 2016 Go Developer Survey and other interesting …
Hugo goes global
Hugo is going Global! Hugo 0.17, released today, is our best and fastest release ever! Hugo …
I’m joining the Go team at Google
I am honored to share that I have joined Google as a member of the Go team and will be …
7 common mistakes in Go – GopherFest 2015
Given at GopherFest 2015. This is an updated version of the talk I gave in NYC Nov 14 at …
What Every Open Source Project Needs
In the last few years open source has transformed the software industry. From Android to …
How To Be A Good Open Source Community Member
A friend of mine who is a very talented writer recently became intrigued with open source and …
7 Common mistakes in Go and when to avoid them – Gotham Go
Not a generic list of programming mistakes, these are the lessons I wish I learned earlier …
Hugo Summer 2014 Update
Hugo, the fast and flexible static site generator, is really coming of age. I wanted to give a …
Go for Object Oriented Programmers
If you’re a OO programmer, especially one with a background with dynamic languages and are curious about go then this talk is for you. We will cover everything you need to know to leverage your existing skills and quickly start coding in golang
Using MongoDB with Go and mgo
This presentation will give developers an introduction and practical experience of using MongoDB with the Go language. MongoDB Chief Developer Advocate & Gopher Steve Francia presents plainly what you need to know about using MongoDB with Go.
Getting Started with Go
This presentation will walk you through the steps needed to get started with Go.
Pointers vs References
Some languages including C, C++ support pointers. Other languages including C++, Java, Python, …
Is Go an Object Oriented language?
To truly understand what it means to be ‘object-oriented’ you need to look back at the …
Painless Datastorage With Mongodb and Go – Gophercon 2014
Find out why some people claim Go and MongoDB are a “pair made in heaven” and …
Cross Compiling with Go
One of the great features of golang is that you can compile executables for many different …
A modern CLI Commander for go
Cobra is a commander providing a simple interface to create powerful modern CLI interfaces similar to git & go tools. In addition to providing an iterface, Cobra simultaneously provides a controller to organize your application code.
Refactoring with go fmt
using go fmt to quickly refactor your code
Hugo: A fast and flexible static site generator built in GoLang
Hugo Website Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, easy …
Nitro : A quick and simple profiler for golang
Nitro is a quick and easy performance analyzer library for golang. It is useful for comparing …
Go Go Hugo blog
After after a few months of work I’m happy to display the newest incarnation of …
spf13-vim : Steve Francia's Vim Distribution
spf13-vim is a distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, Gvim and MacVim. It is a good …
38
Posts
mongodb
Break things on purpose podcast
I had the privilage of sitting down with my friend Jason Yee as a guest on his podcast. Listen …
Drupal and the secret of my success
As my tenure on the Drupal Association was concluding, I was asked to give the Keynote for …
Using MongoDB with Go and mgo
This presentation will give developers an introduction and practical experience of using MongoDB with the Go language. MongoDB Chief Developer Advocate & Gopher Steve Francia presents plainly what you need to know about using MongoDB with Go.
Getting Started with Go
This presentation will walk you through the steps needed to get started with Go.
Painless Datastorage With Mongodb and Go – Gophercon 2014
Find out why some people claim Go and MongoDB are a “pair made in heaven” and …
9 MongoDB 2.6 Drivers Released
I’m pleased to announce the coordinated release of drivers in 9 languages in preparation for …
Build your first MongoDB App in Ruby @ StrangeLoop 2013
An updated tutorial given at strageloop 2013 introduces the features of MongoDB by building a simple location-based application using MongoDB.
Building Modern Web Applications
I gave this presentation to a packed house at DevCon5 in NYC July 24th. DevCon5 is a web …
MongoDB and PHP Webinar
Workshop on MongoDB and PHP
Hack+Startup - The Future of Data
A presentation given as part of First Round Capital’s Hack+Startup conference.
MongoDB, Hadoop and humongous data at MongoSV 2012
Presentation given at MongoSV 2012 on processing big data with MongoDB using Hadoop integration & the MongoDB aggregation framework.
MongoDB Driver days hackathon round up
A round up of projects created during the driver days hack day by the 10gen drivers team focused on the MongoDB user experience.
Not Just Hadoop: NoSQL in the Enterprise at Strata NYC 2012
open source NoSQL solution MongoDB and data processor Hadoop have made big data accessible. Previously big data meant proprietary software and big hardware.
Giving the most viewed presentation on slideshare ever at OSCON
Giving a presentation that had more views on slideshare in it's first week than any other OSCON presentation had in 12 years.
How to deliver a great conference tutorial
4 secrets I used to give the most popular presentation in the history of OSCON.
Building your first MongoDB app - OSCON 2012
This tutorial given at OSCON 2012 will introduce the features of MongoDB by building a simple location-based application using MongoDB.
Replication, Durability, and Disaster Recovery
This session introduces the basic components of high availability before going into a deep dive on MongoDB replication.
Multi Data Center Strategies and MongoDB
Data Center Strategies for deployment to multiple data centers, Including a deep dive into deploying MongoDB across a wide area network.
Getting Started with MongoDB and PHP
The first in a series of posts on MongoDB and PHP that will both explain why you should use MongoDB and teach you how.
NoSQL databases and Managing Big Data
A review of the various NoSQL databases including MongoDB, cassandra, redis and how they handle big data.
MongoDB, Hadoop and Humongous Data
Learn how to integrate MongoDB with Hadoop for large-scale distributed data processing.
Getting started with Drupal and MongoDB
Drupal is the standard in content management systems. MongoDB enables high performance Drupal. Get started with a MongoDB backed Drupal.
MongoDB and Hadoop
Learn how to integrate MongoDB with Hadoop for large-scale distributed data processing.
MongoDB and PHP, The Book
I wrote a book. It is published by O’Reilly, and available now on Amazon, O’Reilly Media and a …
MongoDB for Genealogy at RootsTech 2012
After an enjoyable time at the SORT conference in 2011 I was invited to come back to SLC to …
Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery
How to go about creating better backups through replication and snapshots and how to ensure that your infrastructure has a solid disaster recovery plan.
Hybrid MongoDB / SQL Applications
MongoDB is often used alongside a relational database such as Oracle or MySQL. It is often …
Building your First app with MongoDB at MongoSV 2011
10gen had our flagship conference in Silicon Valley. I gave an introductory presentation at the …
MongoDB, PHP and the Cloud - PHP Cloud Summit 2011
I had the opportunity to present at the PHP Cloud Summit 2011 among some great presenters. This …
LDS SORT Tech Conference 2011
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the LDS Church’s SORT tech conference. Nearly 1200 …
MongoDB and PHP at ZendCon 2011
Presentation given at PHP’s biggest conference, ZendCon 2011. Covers the basics of using …
MongoDB at SORT Conference 2011
This presentation was given at the LDS Tech SORT Conference 2011 in Salt Lake City. The slides …
MongoDB, E-Commerce and Transactions
Last week I had the pleasure of attending MongoUK in London. I had a great time presenting and …
Where have all the good databases gone?
Perhaps you’ll recognize these words, “About five years ago I started to notice an odd thing. …
Blending Mongo and RDBMS for ecommerce
Justin Hileman and I presented at MongoNYC 2011 to a packed house. Our presentation outlines …
Augmenting RDBMS with NoSQL for e-commerce
Justin Hileman and I gave a presentation on “Augmenting RDBMS with NoSQL for e-commerce” at …
MongoDB & Ecommerce : A Perfect Combination
Last night I gave a presentation on MongoDB & Ecommerce. OpenSky is the first company to …
NoSQL Databases
Amazon, Digg, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter all started on sql databases (all but Amazon on …
21
Posts
php
Drupal and the secret of my success
As my tenure on the Drupal Association was concluding, I was asked to give the Keynote for …
Pointers vs References
Some languages including C, C++ support pointers. Other languages including C++, Java, Python, …
9 MongoDB 2.6 Drivers Released
I’m pleased to announce the coordinated release of drivers in 9 languages in preparation for …
Building Modern Web Applications
I gave this presentation to a packed house at DevCon5 in NYC July 24th. DevCon5 is a web …
MongoDB and PHP Webinar
Workshop on MongoDB and PHP
Getting Started with MongoDB and PHP
The first in a series of posts on MongoDB and PHP that will both explain why you should use MongoDB and teach you how.
spf13-vim : Steve Francia's Vim Distribution
spf13-vim is a distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, Gvim and MacVim. It is a good …
Getting started with Drupal and MongoDB
Drupal is the standard in content management systems. MongoDB enables high performance Drupal. Get started with a MongoDB backed Drupal.
MongoDB and PHP, The Book
I wrote a book. It is published by O’Reilly, and available now on Amazon, O’Reilly Media and a …
MongoDB, PHP and the Cloud - PHP Cloud Summit 2011
I had the opportunity to present at the PHP Cloud Summit 2011 among some great presenters. This …
MongoDB and PHP at ZendCon 2011
Presentation given at PHP’s biggest conference, ZendCon 2011. Covers the basics of using …
Creating a Symfony2 Console Command
One of the weaknesses of PHP as a languages has always been it’s ability to write proper …
Creating your own Symfony2 Bundle
Symfony2 is a great web framework. OpenSky is built on this framework and we are one of the …
Augmenting RDBMS with NoSQL for e-commerce
Justin Hileman and I gave a presentation on “Augmenting RDBMS with NoSQL for e-commerce” at …
Getting Started with Symfony2
In a follow up to my popular post on Symfony2, the open source PHP framework we use at …
On Symfony2
Symfony2 is the latest brainchild of Fabien Potencier.
MongoDB & Ecommerce : A Perfect Combination
Last night I gave a presentation on MongoDB & Ecommerce. OpenSky is the first company to …
Ultimate Vim Config
I have spent the last few years tweaking and refining my VIM configuration until I had the …
Moving to WordPress
I’ve used Drupal to power my blog since I started it over 2 years ago. It has been a bitter …
Next Gen PHP Frameworks
With the release of PHP 5.3, PHP released the most significant capabilities in years. …
Scaling Web Sites (LAMP) : Top Resources
Luckily it’s 2009 and there have been a bunch of successful websites that have had to deal with …
14
Posts
open source
Cobra & Viper Fortify Security as Part of GitHub Secure Open Source Fund
When foundational open source projects like Cobra and Viper level up their security game, the entire ecosystem wins. Here's what we learned together.
Gophers Say GopherCon Edition
Go Time panelists Natalie & Jon join forces with Go Team members Steve Francia, Katie …
Modern Enterprise Applications with Go - Go Day 2021
Go, the language of cloud infrastructure, is maturing into the language of modern enterprise …
Google Cloud Next 2021 - Modern Enterprise Applications with Go
Over the past couple of years, Go has matured to a complete end-to-end offering with seamless …
Break things on purpose podcast
I had the privilage of sitting down with my friend Jason Yee as a guest on his podcast. Listen …
Grokking Go.dev - Go Time Podcast
I had the privilage of joining my coworker Julie Qiu as we talked with our friends Carmen, Mat …
New Go Branding Strategy
I joined the GoTime podcast and told them EVERYTHING about Go’s new branding strategy (and …
Drupal and the secret of my success
As my tenure on the Drupal Association was concluding, I was asked to give the Keynote for …
How to Contribute to Go
I wrote this presentation with Jessie Frazelle. She made it look very nice and delivered it at …
Go Developer Survey
I joined GoTime to talk about the results of the 2016 Go Developer Survey and other interesting …
What Every Open Source Project Needs
In the last few years open source has transformed the software industry. From Android to …
How To Be A Good Open Source Community Member
A friend of mine who is a very talented writer recently became intrigued with open source and …
Getting Started with MongoDB and PHP
The first in a series of posts on MongoDB and PHP that will both explain why you should use MongoDB and teach you how.
Ultimate Vim Config
I have spent the last few years tweaking and refining my VIM configuration until I had the …
11
Posts
nosql
Not Just Hadoop: NoSQL in the Enterprise at Strata NYC 2012
open source NoSQL solution MongoDB and data processor Hadoop have made big data accessible. Previously big data meant proprietary software and big hardware.
Giving the most viewed presentation on slideshare ever at OSCON
Giving a presentation that had more views on slideshare in it's first week than any other OSCON presentation had in 12 years.
Replication, Durability, and Disaster Recovery
This session introduces the basic components of high availability before going into a deep dive on MongoDB replication.
Getting Started with MongoDB and PHP
The first in a series of posts on MongoDB and PHP that will both explain why you should use MongoDB and teach you how.
NoSQL databases and Managing Big Data
A review of the various NoSQL databases including MongoDB, cassandra, redis and how they handle big data.
Getting started with Drupal and MongoDB
Drupal is the standard in content management systems. MongoDB enables high performance Drupal. Get started with a MongoDB backed Drupal.
LDS SORT Tech Conference 2011
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the LDS Church’s SORT tech conference. Nearly 1200 …
Where have all the good databases gone?
Perhaps you’ll recognize these words, “About five years ago I started to notice an odd thing. …
Blending Mongo and RDBMS for ecommerce
Justin Hileman and I presented at MongoNYC 2011 to a packed house. Our presentation outlines …
The Golden Hammer
Every so often a “new” technology catches on. Right now it’s nosql databases. A couple years …
NoSQL Databases
Amazon, Digg, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter all started on sql databases (all but Amazon on …
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Posts
Giving the most viewed presentation on slideshare ever at OSCON
Giving a presentation that had more views on slideshare in it's first week than any other OSCON presentation had in 12 years.
Watch what you say
I came across an article today titled “Help! My boss is on twitter“. Allow me to share a secret …
A Better Follow Friday
Follow Friday is a common practice on Twitter where many people spend friday posting things …
54% US Companies Ban Social Media... and That's Fine
According to a study commissioned by Robert Half Technology, an IT staffing company, 54 percent …
Managing Your Social Media Presence
As social media continues to emerge, many professionals are curious on what is the best way to …
Ranking Social Media
In business it’s common to use sales as a metric to determine success. Songs, albums, books and …
Scaling Web Sites (LAMP) : Top Resources
Luckily it’s 2009 and there have been a bunch of successful websites that have had to deal with …
Stop Twitter from Becoming the next MySpace
6 months ago Twitter was the best place in existence to use and develop great relations with …
Facebook Meets Twitter & FriendFeed
For the past few months Facebook has been obsessed with Twitter. It’s easy to see why. Twitter …
Hire Your Next Consultant Using Twitter
How to find great and qualified people to hire using Twitter.
Why are you not on Twitter
10 reasons why I use Twitter and so should you
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Posts
Gophers Say GopherCon Edition
Go Time panelists Natalie & Jon join forces with Go Team members Steve Francia, Katie …
Modern Enterprise Applications with Go - Go Day 2021
Go, the language of cloud infrastructure, is maturing into the language of modern enterprise …
Google Cloud Next 2021 - Modern Enterprise Applications with Go
Over the past couple of years, Go has matured to a complete end-to-end offering with seamless …
Break things on purpose podcast
I had the privilage of sitting down with my friend Jason Yee as a guest on his podcast. Listen …
Grokking Go.dev - Go Time Podcast
I had the privilage of joining my coworker Julie Qiu as we talked with our friends Carmen, Mat …
New Go Branding Strategy
I joined the GoTime podcast and told them EVERYTHING about Go’s new branding strategy (and …
Drupal and the secret of my success
As my tenure on the Drupal Association was concluding, I was asked to give the Keynote for …
Go Developer Survey
I joined GoTime to talk about the results of the 2016 Go Developer Survey and other interesting …
The Death of Search
Social media will be the next innovation in the most unlikely of places, search ( leveraging …
8
Posts
ruby
Pointers vs References
Some languages including C, C++ support pointers. Other languages including C++, Java, Python, …
9 MongoDB 2.6 Drivers Released
I’m pleased to announce the coordinated release of drivers in 9 languages in preparation for …
Build your first MongoDB App in Ruby @ StrangeLoop 2013
An updated tutorial given at strageloop 2013 introduces the features of MongoDB by building a simple location-based application using MongoDB.
Building Modern Web Applications
I gave this presentation to a packed house at DevCon5 in NYC July 24th. DevCon5 is a web …
Giving the most viewed presentation on slideshare ever at OSCON
Giving a presentation that had more views on slideshare in it's first week than any other OSCON presentation had in 12 years.
Building your first MongoDB app - OSCON 2012
This tutorial given at OSCON 2012 will introduce the features of MongoDB by building a simple location-based application using MongoDB.
spf13-vim : Steve Francia's Vim Distribution
spf13-vim is a distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, Gvim and MacVim. It is a good …
Scaling Web Sites (LAMP) : Top Resources
Luckily it’s 2009 and there have been a bunch of successful websites that have had to deal with …
7
Posts
hugo
The New spf13.com
I’m proud to present the new and improved spf13.com a dramatic redesign of the very first …
Break things on purpose podcast
I had the privilage of sitting down with my friend Jason Yee as a guest on his podcast. Listen …
Drupal and the secret of my success
As my tenure on the Drupal Association was concluding, I was asked to give the Keynote for …
Hugo goes global
Hugo is going Global! Hugo 0.17, released today, is our best and fastest release ever! Hugo …
Hugo Summer 2014 Update
Hugo, the fast and flexible static site generator, is really coming of age. I wanted to give a …
A modern CLI Commander for go
Cobra is a commander providing a simple interface to create powerful modern CLI interfaces similar to git & go tools. In addition to providing an iterface, Cobra simultaneously provides a controller to organize your application code.
Go Go Hugo blog
After after a few months of work I’m happy to display the newest incarnation of …
7
Posts
vim
Why I use spf13-vim
a completely cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim stays true to it's vim roots while adding modern features including a plugin management system, a curated plugin set with customized configuration, advanced autocomplete, tags, support for dozens of languages and much more.
spf13-vim : Steve Francia's Vim Distribution
spf13-vim is a distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, Gvim and MacVim. It is a good …
spf13-vim 3.0 release and new website
spf13-vim is a cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim.
The perfect .vimrc vim config file
I have spent the last few years tweaking and refining my VIM configuration. This is the …
Vim Plugins: snipMate
Why use it It’s super easy to use It has tons of snippets It’s pretty well compatible with …
Vim Plugins: NERD Commenter
The NERD Commenter is an indispensable tool when programming in VIM. It understands like a …
The 15 Best Vim Plugins
The 15 most useful plugins for VIM. This post is a bit dated but kept intact to reflect the best plugins at the time
7
Posts
vim (text editor)
Why I use spf13-vim
a completely cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim stays true to it's vim roots while adding modern features including a plugin management system, a curated plugin set with customized configuration, advanced autocomplete, tags, support for dozens of languages and much more.
spf13-vim 3.0 release and new website
spf13-vim is a cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim.
Ultimate Vim Config
I have spent the last few years tweaking and refining my VIM configuration until I had the …
VIM Crash Course
Most developers know the basics of VIM, enough to edit a conf file, but most stay there, …
Vim Plugins: snipMate
Why use it It’s super easy to use It has tons of snippets It’s pretty well compatible with …
Vim Plugins: NERD Commenter
The NERD Commenter is an indispensable tool when programming in VIM. It understands like a …
The 15 Best Vim Plugins
The 15 most useful plugins for VIM. This post is a bit dated but kept intact to reflect the best plugins at the time
6
Posts
blog
Go Go Hugo blog
After after a few months of work I’m happy to display the newest incarnation of …
Protecting Intellectual Property on Your Blog
6 steps to protect your intellectual property as posted on your blog, forum or website.
Conclusion of the Blog-a-thon
Today marks the last post of my blog-a-thon. It has been a learning and growing experience. I …
How I Blog
Not surprisingly, given my semi random content, I arrive at my posts a few different ways. 1. I …
My Own Private Blogathon
Someone once said a goal is a dream until you write it down … in your blog and tell the world …
Featured in CIO Magazine!
I don’t know what could be more shocking that opening this month’s edition of CIO magazine and …
6
Posts
data
Painless Datastorage With Mongodb and Go – Gophercon 2014
Find out why some people claim Go and MongoDB are a “pair made in heaven” and …
Hack+Startup - The Future of Data
A presentation given as part of First Round Capital’s Hack+Startup conference.
Not Just Hadoop: NoSQL in the Enterprise at Strata NYC 2012
open source NoSQL solution MongoDB and data processor Hadoop have made big data accessible. Previously big data meant proprietary software and big hardware.
Giving the most viewed presentation on slideshare ever at OSCON
Giving a presentation that had more views on slideshare in it's first week than any other OSCON presentation had in 12 years.
MongoDB, Hadoop and Humongous Data
Learn how to integrate MongoDB with Hadoop for large-scale distributed data processing.
Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery
How to go about creating better backups through replication and snapshots and how to ensure that your infrastructure has a solid disaster recovery plan.
6
Posts
Watch what you say
I came across an article today titled “Help! My boss is on twitter“. Allow me to share a secret …
54% US Companies Ban Social Media... and That's Fine
According to a study commissioned by Robert Half Technology, an IT staffing company, 54 percent …
Managing Your Social Media Presence
As social media continues to emerge, many professionals are curious on what is the best way to …
New Facebook in Depth Review
Facebook just unveiled their biggest change yet. The http://www.new.facebook.com website is a …
Scaling Web Sites (LAMP) : Top Resources
Luckily it’s 2009 and there have been a bunch of successful websites that have had to deal with …
Facebook Meets Twitter & FriendFeed
For the past few months Facebook has been obsessed with Twitter. It’s easy to see why. Twitter …
6
Posts
leadership
The 9 Cost Factors
A comprehensive framework for evaluating the total, long-term economic impact of programming language choices across nine critical cost dimensions.
Why Engineers Can't Be Rational About Programming Languages
The neuroscience of why we make million dollar decisions based on identity, not data.
Finding the Right People
Since I began at Open Sky a few weeks ago I have been tasked with building out a great team. …
Transitions
I couldn’t be more excited to announce that I have accepted a position at The Open Sky Project. …
The Importance of Focus
Imagine if Apple, Disney, Microsoft, etc had chased every oppotunity that they came across. One …
Take Time to Help Others
While it may not seem intuitive taking time out to selflessly help others will help you more …
6
Posts
linux
the future of the Operating System - LinuxCon 2015 keynote
Given as a keynote at LinuxCon + CloudOpen Japan 2015. Linux has become the foundation for …
The Browser as an application platform
With Google launching their chrome book is significant as it reflects a substantial shift in …
Unix Jobs Management
Every self respecting linux, mac os X or *nix user should have a solid handle on managing jobs …
Human readable du sorted by size
du is the *nix command for disk usage. It tells you how much space everything in the given …
Scaling Web Sites (LAMP) : Top Resources
Luckily it’s 2009 and there have been a bunch of successful websites that have had to deal with …
Backup Your Files
This article will show you how to automatically backup your files often and automatically.
6
Posts
social media
Watch what you say
I came across an article today titled “Help! My boss is on twitter“. Allow me to share a secret …
54% US Companies Ban Social Media... and That's Fine
According to a study commissioned by Robert Half Technology, an IT staffing company, 54 percent …
Managing Your Social Media Presence
As social media continues to emerge, many professionals are curious on what is the best way to …
The Death of Search
Social media will be the next innovation in the most unlikely of places, search ( leveraging …
Ranking Social Media
In business it’s common to use sales as a metric to determine success. Songs, albums, books and …
Why are you not on Twitter
10 reasons why I use Twitter and so should you
6
Posts
symfony2
Creating a Symfony2 Console Command
One of the weaknesses of PHP as a languages has always been it’s ability to write proper …
Blending Mongo and RDBMS for ecommerce
Justin Hileman and I presented at MongoNYC 2011 to a packed house. Our presentation outlines …
Creating your own Symfony2 Bundle
Symfony2 is a great web framework. OpenSky is built on this framework and we are one of the …
Getting Started with Symfony2
In a follow up to my popular post on Symfony2, the open source PHP framework we use at …
On Symfony2
Symfony2 is the latest brainchild of Fabien Potencier.
Next Gen PHP Frameworks
With the release of PHP 5.3, PHP released the most significant capabilities in years. …
5
Posts
blogging
Hugo: A fast and flexible static site generator built in GoLang
Hugo Website Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, easy …
Go Go Hugo blog
After after a few months of work I’m happy to display the newest incarnation of …
Protecting Intellectual Property on Your Blog
6 steps to protect your intellectual property as posted on your blog, forum or website.
Moving to WordPress
I’ve used Drupal to power my blog since I started it over 2 years ago. It has been a bitter …
How I Blog
Not surprisingly, given my semi random content, I arrive at my posts a few different ways. 1. I …
5
Posts
career
spf13 Google -->
I’m leaving my role as the Product Lead for the Go Language at Google. I’m super proud of …
My Favorite Rands Posts
If you don’t know Rands (real name Michael Lopp), you should. His blog is full of excellent …
Watch what you say
I came across an article today titled “Help! My boss is on twitter“. Allow me to share a secret …
Finding the Right People
Since I began at Open Sky a few weeks ago I have been tasked with building out a great team. …
Transitions
I couldn’t be more excited to announce that I have accepted a position at The Open Sky Project. …
5
Posts
management
The 9 Cost Factors
A comprehensive framework for evaluating the total, long-term economic impact of programming language choices across nine critical cost dimensions.
Why Engineers Can't Be Rational About Programming Languages
The neuroscience of why we make million dollar decisions based on identity, not data.
My Favorite Rands Posts
If you don’t know Rands (real name Michael Lopp), you should. His blog is full of excellent …
Finding the Right People
Since I began at Open Sky a few weeks ago I have been tasked with building out a great team. …
Checking Vendor References
One task that should be part of every IT managers is performing reference checks on potential …
5
Posts
mysql
Hybrid MongoDB / SQL Applications
MongoDB is often used alongside a relational database such as Oracle or MySQL. It is often …
Blending Mongo and RDBMS for ecommerce
Justin Hileman and I presented at MongoNYC 2011 to a packed house. Our presentation outlines …
Scaling Web Sites (LAMP) : Top Resources
Luckily it’s 2009 and there have been a bunch of successful websites that have had to deal with …
Backup Your Files
This article will show you how to automatically backup your files often and automatically.
Backing up MySQL
How to fully automate the backup of a MySQL database system.
5
Posts
plugins
Why I use spf13-vim
a completely cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim stays true to it's vim roots while adding modern features including a plugin management system, a curated plugin set with customized configuration, advanced autocomplete, tags, support for dozens of languages and much more.
spf13-vim 3.0 release and new website
spf13-vim is a cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim.
Vim Plugins: snipMate
Why use it It’s super easy to use It has tons of snippets It’s pretty well compatible with …
Vim Plugins: NERD Commenter
The NERD Commenter is an indispensable tool when programming in VIM. It understands like a …
The 15 Best Vim Plugins
The 15 most useful plugins for VIM. This post is a bit dated but kept intact to reflect the best plugins at the time
5
Posts
podcast
Gophers Say GopherCon Edition
Go Time panelists Natalie & Jon join forces with Go Team members Steve Francia, Katie …
Break things on purpose podcast
I had the privilage of sitting down with my friend Jason Yee as a guest on his podcast. Listen …
Grokking Go.dev - Go Time Podcast
I had the privilage of joining my coworker Julie Qiu as we talked with our friends Carmen, Mat …
New Go Branding Strategy
I joined the GoTime podcast and told them EVERYTHING about Go’s new branding strategy (and …
Go Developer Survey
I joined GoTime to talk about the results of the 2016 Go Developer Survey and other interesting …
4
Posts
apache hadoop
MongoDB, Hadoop and humongous data at MongoSV 2012
Presentation given at MongoSV 2012 on processing big data with MongoDB using Hadoop integration & the MongoDB aggregation framework.
Not Just Hadoop: NoSQL in the Enterprise at Strata NYC 2012
open source NoSQL solution MongoDB and data processor Hadoop have made big data accessible. Previously big data meant proprietary software and big hardware.
MongoDB, Hadoop and Humongous Data
Learn how to integrate MongoDB with Hadoop for large-scale distributed data processing.
MongoDB and Hadoop
Learn how to integrate MongoDB with Hadoop for large-scale distributed data processing.
4
Posts
apple
Software Development's Magic Triangle
There’s an old adage “Fast, Cheap, Good; Pick Two”. This situation is called a magic triangle. …
Fascinating interview with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
In 2007, All Things Digital held a fascinating interview with both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. …
Apple's iconic presentations
Recently a book came out The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to be Insanely Great in …
How RIM handed the mobile market over to Apple
Just because you are the market leader doesn't mean you will stay the market leader. A lesson on competition given by Apple to RIM.
4
Posts
backup
The Biggest Myths Surrounding Disaster Recovery
There are many reasons companies fail to create an effective disaster recovery plan. Far too often they fall prey to the common myths of disaster recovery.
Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery
How to go about creating better backups through replication and snapshots and how to ensure that your infrastructure has a solid disaster recovery plan.
Backup Your Files
This article will show you how to automatically backup your files often and automatically.
Backing up MySQL
How to fully automate the backup of a MySQL database system.
4
Posts
bash
spf13-vim : Steve Francia's Vim Distribution
spf13-vim is a distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, Gvim and MacVim. It is a good …
Easy bash scripting with shflags
One of the most frustrating things about bash scripts is how challenging it is to create unix …
Human readable du sorted by size
du is the *nix command for disk usage. It tells you how much space everything in the given …
Mastering the Command Line
If you use *nix, no doubt you’ve spent some time on the command line. Here are a few of the …
4
Posts
cli
Mastering the Command Line
If you use *nix, no doubt you’ve spent some time on the command line. Here are a few of the …
Setting up Subversion with multiple access methods
One thing that makes subversion such a powerful revision system is it’s ability to permit …
Backup Your Files
This article will show you how to automatically backup your files often and automatically.
Be more productive using GNU Screen
Tips, Techniques and Tricks for using GNU Screen to increase your productivity.
4
Posts
drupal
Drupal and the secret of my success
As my tenure on the Drupal Association was concluding, I was asked to give the Keynote for …
Getting started with Drupal and MongoDB
Drupal is the standard in content management systems. MongoDB enables high performance Drupal. Get started with a MongoDB backed Drupal.
Moving to WordPress
I’ve used Drupal to power my blog since I started it over 2 years ago. It has been a bitter …
Getting Started With Drupal
Drupal is a very powerful content management solution. It powered an earlier version of this …
4
Posts
ecommerce
MongoDB, E-Commerce and Transactions
Last week I had the pleasure of attending MongoUK in London. I had a great time presenting and …
Augmenting RDBMS with NoSQL for e-commerce
Justin Hileman and I gave a presentation on “Augmenting RDBMS with NoSQL for e-commerce” at …
MongoDB & Ecommerce : A Perfect Combination
Last night I gave a presentation on MongoDB & Ecommerce. OpenSky is the first company to …
Analyzing and Improving Conversion
Conversion is one of those core metrics that every business depends on and strives to improve. …
4
Posts
hadoop
MongoDB, Hadoop and humongous data at MongoSV 2012
Presentation given at MongoSV 2012 on processing big data with MongoDB using Hadoop integration & the MongoDB aggregation framework.
Not Just Hadoop: NoSQL in the Enterprise at Strata NYC 2012
open source NoSQL solution MongoDB and data processor Hadoop have made big data accessible. Previously big data meant proprietary software and big hardware.
MongoDB, Hadoop and Humongous Data
Learn how to integrate MongoDB with Hadoop for large-scale distributed data processing.
MongoDB and Hadoop
Learn how to integrate MongoDB with Hadoop for large-scale distributed data processing.
4
Posts
history
How Benjamin Franklin Invented Machine Learning in 1720
Benjamin Franklin discovered gradient descent 250 years before we had the mathematics to describe it.
The Legacy of Go
This presentation was developed for GoLab in Firenze Italy and delivered as the closing keynote …
What Should a Modern Practical Programming Language Look Like
Keynote delivered at The Landing Festival – Berlin. This presentation describes the many …
Go – On The Shoulders of Giants
This presentation was developed for Curry On and delivered as the closing keynote of the …
4
Posts
it
Checking Vendor References
One task that should be part of every IT managers is performing reference checks on potential …
How RIM handed the mobile market over to Apple
Just because you are the market leader doesn't mean you will stay the market leader. A lesson on competition given by Apple to RIM.
Hire Your Next Consultant Using Twitter
How to find great and qualified people to hire using Twitter.
Implementing a Corporate Wiki
Steps to choose and implement a corporate wiki from access policies to adoption
4
Posts
opensky
Blending Mongo and RDBMS for ecommerce
Justin Hileman and I presented at MongoNYC 2011 to a packed house. Our presentation outlines …
MongoDB & Ecommerce : A Perfect Combination
Last night I gave a presentation on MongoDB & Ecommerce. OpenSky is the first company to …
Selling on OpenSky
As anyone who reads my blog or follows my tweets knows, I’ve been working for a new startup …
Transitions
I couldn’t be more excited to announce that I have accepted a position at The Open Sky Project. …
4
Posts
vi
Why I use spf13-vim
a completely cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim stays true to it's vim roots while adding modern features including a plugin management system, a curated plugin set with customized configuration, advanced autocomplete, tags, support for dozens of languages and much more.
spf13-vim 3.0 release and new website
spf13-vim is a cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim.
VIM Crash Course
Most developers know the basics of VIM, enough to edit a conf file, but most stay there, …
Vim Plugins: snipMate
Why use it It’s super easy to use It has tons of snippets It’s pretty well compatible with …
3
Posts
.vimrc
Why I use spf13-vim
a completely cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim stays true to it's vim roots while adding modern features including a plugin management system, a curated plugin set with customized configuration, advanced autocomplete, tags, support for dozens of languages and much more.
spf13-vim 3.0 release and new website
spf13-vim is a cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim.
The perfect .vimrc vim config file
I have spent the last few years tweaking and refining my VIM configuration. This is the …
3
Posts
big data
MongoDB, Hadoop and humongous data at MongoSV 2012
Presentation given at MongoSV 2012 on processing big data with MongoDB using Hadoop integration & the MongoDB aggregation framework.
Not Just Hadoop: NoSQL in the Enterprise at Strata NYC 2012
open source NoSQL solution MongoDB and data processor Hadoop have made big data accessible. Previously big data meant proprietary software and big hardware.
NoSQL databases and Managing Big Data
A review of the various NoSQL databases including MongoDB, cassandra, redis and how they handle big data.
3
Posts
cobra
Cobra & Viper Fortify Security as Part of GitHub Secure Open Source Fund
When foundational open source projects like Cobra and Viper level up their security game, the entire ecosystem wins. Here's what we learned together.
Drupal and the secret of my success
As my tenure on the Drupal Association was concluding, I was asked to give the Keynote for …
A modern CLI Commander for go
Cobra is a commander providing a simple interface to create powerful modern CLI interfaces similar to git & go tools. In addition to providing an iterface, Cobra simultaneously provides a controller to organize your application code.
3
Posts
community
Cobra & Viper Fortify Security as Part of GitHub Secure Open Source Fund
When foundational open source projects like Cobra and Viper level up their security game, the entire ecosystem wins. Here's what we learned together.
How To Be A Good Open Source Community Member
A friend of mine who is a very talented writer recently became intrigued with open source and …
Hugo Summer 2014 Update
Hugo, the fast and flexible static site generator, is really coming of age. I wanted to give a …
3
Posts
data management
The Biggest Myths Surrounding Disaster Recovery
There are many reasons companies fail to create an effective disaster recovery plan. Far too often they fall prey to the common myths of disaster recovery.
Giving the most viewed presentation on slideshare ever at OSCON
Giving a presentation that had more views on slideshare in it's first week than any other OSCON presentation had in 12 years.
Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery
How to go about creating better backups through replication and snapshots and how to ensure that your infrastructure has a solid disaster recovery plan.
3
Posts
data processing
MongoDB, Hadoop and humongous data at MongoSV 2012
Presentation given at MongoSV 2012 on processing big data with MongoDB using Hadoop integration & the MongoDB aggregation framework.
MongoDB, Hadoop and Humongous Data
Learn how to integrate MongoDB with Hadoop for large-scale distributed data processing.
MongoDB and Hadoop
Learn how to integrate MongoDB with Hadoop for large-scale distributed data processing.
3
Posts
database
Hack+Startup - The Future of Data
A presentation given as part of First Round Capital’s Hack+Startup conference.
Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery
How to go about creating better backups through replication and snapshots and how to ensure that your infrastructure has a solid disaster recovery plan.
Where have all the good databases gone?
Perhaps you’ll recognize these words, “About five years ago I started to notice an odd thing. …
3
Posts
disaster recovery
The Biggest Myths Surrounding Disaster Recovery
There are many reasons companies fail to create an effective disaster recovery plan. Far too often they fall prey to the common myths of disaster recovery.
Replication, Durability, and Disaster Recovery
This session introduces the basic components of high availability before going into a deep dive on MongoDB replication.
Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery
How to go about creating better backups through replication and snapshots and how to ensure that your infrastructure has a solid disaster recovery plan.
3
Posts
distributed data processing
MongoDB, Hadoop and humongous data at MongoSV 2012
Presentation given at MongoSV 2012 on processing big data with MongoDB using Hadoop integration & the MongoDB aggregation framework.
MongoDB, Hadoop and Humongous Data
Learn how to integrate MongoDB with Hadoop for large-scale distributed data processing.
MongoDB and Hadoop
Learn how to integrate MongoDB with Hadoop for large-scale distributed data processing.
3
Posts
economy
The 9 Cost Factors
A comprehensive framework for evaluating the total, long-term economic impact of programming language choices across nine critical cost dimensions.
Why Engineers Can't Be Rational About Programming Languages
The neuroscience of why we make million dollar decisions based on identity, not data.
Growing in a Down Economy
Strategies for growing while your competition shrinks in a down economy.
3
Posts
editors
The perfect .vimrc vim config file
I have spent the last few years tweaking and refining my VIM configuration. This is the …
Ultimate Vim Config
I have spent the last few years tweaking and refining my VIM configuration until I had the …
VIM Crash Course
Most developers know the basics of VIM, enough to edit a conf file, but most stay there, …
3
Posts
engineering-culture
The 9 Cost Factors
A comprehensive framework for evaluating the total, long-term economic impact of programming language choices across nine critical cost dimensions.
Why Engineers Can't Be Rational About Programming Languages
The neuroscience of why we make million dollar decisions based on identity, not data.
How Benjamin Franklin Invented Machine Learning in 1720
Benjamin Franklin discovered gradient descent 250 years before we had the mathematics to describe it.
3
Posts
git
spf13-vim : Steve Francia's Vim Distribution
spf13-vim is a distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, Gvim and MacVim. It is a good …
Installing Git on a Shared Host
Git is a fantastic tool and is very useful for deployment. If you can’t install git system wide …
Using SVK to Increase Productivity
After subversion but before Git there was SVK. If you are stuck using subversion do yourself a favor and use svk.
3
Posts
mapreduce
MongoDB, Hadoop and humongous data at MongoSV 2012
Presentation given at MongoSV 2012 on processing big data with MongoDB using Hadoop integration & the MongoDB aggregation framework.
MongoDB, Hadoop and Humongous Data
Learn how to integrate MongoDB with Hadoop for large-scale distributed data processing.
MongoDB and Hadoop
Learn how to integrate MongoDB with Hadoop for large-scale distributed data processing.
3
Posts
microsoft
Software Development's Magic Triangle
There’s an old adage “Fast, Cheap, Good; Pick Two”. This situation is called a magic triangle. …
Fascinating interview with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
In 2007, All Things Digital held a fascinating interview with both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. …
Windows 7 launch notes
I was fortunate to be able to attend the Microsoft Launch Developer Preview meeting in NYC. …
3
Posts
oscon
Go for Object Oriented Programmers
If you’re a OO programmer, especially one with a background with dynamic languages and are curious about go then this talk is for you. We will cover everything you need to know to leverage your existing skills and quickly start coding in golang
Giving the most viewed presentation on slideshare ever at OSCON
Giving a presentation that had more views on slideshare in it's first week than any other OSCON presentation had in 12 years.
How to deliver a great conference tutorial
4 secrets I used to give the most popular presentation in the history of OSCON.
3
Posts
python
Pointers vs References
Some languages including C, C++ support pointers. Other languages including C++, Java, Python, …
9 MongoDB 2.6 Drivers Released
I’m pleased to announce the coordinated release of drivers in 9 languages in preparation for …
spf13-vim : Steve Francia's Vim Distribution
spf13-vim is a distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, Gvim and MacVim. It is a good …
3
Posts
recording
Go – On The Shoulders of Giants
This presentation was developed for Curry On and delivered as the closing keynote of the …
MongoDB and PHP Webinar
Workshop on MongoDB and PHP
Hack+Startup - The Future of Data
A presentation given as part of First Round Capital’s Hack+Startup conference.
3
Posts
security
Cobra & Viper Fortify Security as Part of GitHub Secure Open Source Fund
When foundational open source projects like Cobra and Viper level up their security game, the entire ecosystem wins. Here's what we learned together.
Using the right keys
Today I was visiting a friends office and like many offices in NYC they have a shared bathroom …
7 security practices you need to follow
Some of this may seem like a broken record, yet every single time you hear about a bank losing …
3
Posts
symfony
Creating a Symfony2 Console Command
One of the weaknesses of PHP as a languages has always been it’s ability to write proper …
Creating your own Symfony2 Bundle
Symfony2 is a great web framework. OpenSky is built on this framework and we are one of the …
Next Gen PHP Frameworks
With the release of PHP 5.3, PHP released the most significant capabilities in years. …
3
Posts
web
The New spf13.com
I’m proud to present the new and improved spf13.com a dramatic redesign of the very first …
Hugo: A fast and flexible static site generator built in GoLang
Hugo Website Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, easy …
The Death of Search
Social media will be the next innovation in the most unlikely of places, search ( leveraging …
2
Posts
amazon
Software Development's Magic Triangle
There’s an old adage “Fast, Cheap, Good; Pick Two”. This situation is called a magic triangle. …
Benchmarking Cloudfront (and S3)
Amazon has done it again bringing another computing service to the masses. This time it’s the …
2
Posts
applications
Modern Enterprise Applications with Go - Go Day 2021
Go, the language of cloud infrastructure, is maturing into the language of modern enterprise …
Google Cloud Next 2021 - Modern Enterprise Applications with Go
Over the past couple of years, Go has matured to a complete end-to-end offering with seamless …
2
Posts
architecture
Not Just Hadoop: NoSQL in the Enterprise at Strata NYC 2012
open source NoSQL solution MongoDB and data processor Hadoop have made big data accessible. Previously big data meant proprietary software and big hardware.
Multi Data Center Strategies and MongoDB
Data Center Strategies for deployment to multiple data centers, Including a deep dive into deploying MongoDB across a wide area network.
2
Posts
cio
Featured in CIO Magazine!
I don’t know what could be more shocking that opening this month’s edition of CIO magazine and …
Promotion
Portero Inc, the worlds leading online luxury destination, announces the promotion of Steve Francia to CIO.
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Posts
cloud computing
MongoDB, PHP and the Cloud - PHP Cloud Summit 2011
I had the opportunity to present at the PHP Cloud Summit 2011 among some great presenters. This …
Competition for the Cloud Heats Up
Cloud no longer a single vendor game. For years cloud computing has been synonymous with Amazon …
2
Posts
computing
The Biggest Myths Surrounding Disaster Recovery
There are many reasons companies fail to create an effective disaster recovery plan. Far too often they fall prey to the common myths of disaster recovery.
Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery
How to go about creating better backups through replication and snapshots and how to ensure that your infrastructure has a solid disaster recovery plan.
2
Posts
databases
NoSQL databases and Managing Big Data
A review of the various NoSQL databases including MongoDB, cassandra, redis and how they handle big data.
NoSQL Databases
Amazon, Digg, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter all started on sql databases (all but Amazon on …
2
Posts
distribution
Why I use spf13-vim
a completely cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim stays true to it's vim roots while adding modern features including a plugin management system, a curated plugin set with customized configuration, advanced autocomplete, tags, support for dozens of languages and much more.
spf13-vim 3.0 release and new website
spf13-vim is a cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim.
2
Posts
docker
Drupal and the secret of my success
As my tenure on the Drupal Association was concluding, I was asked to give the Keynote for …
the future of the Operating System - LinuxCon 2015 keynote
Given as a keynote at LinuxCon + CloudOpen Japan 2015. Linux has become the foundation for …
2
Posts
enterprise
Modern Enterprise Applications with Go - Go Day 2021
Go, the language of cloud infrastructure, is maturing into the language of modern enterprise …
Google Cloud Next 2021 - Modern Enterprise Applications with Go
Over the past couple of years, Go has matured to a complete end-to-end offering with seamless …
2
Posts
github
Cobra & Viper Fortify Security as Part of GitHub Secure Open Source Fund
When foundational open source projects like Cobra and Viper level up their security game, the entire ecosystem wins. Here's what we learned together.
MongoDB Driver days hackathon round up
A round up of projects created during the driver days hack day by the 10gen drivers team focused on the MongoDB user experience.
2
Posts
gvim
Why I use spf13-vim
a completely cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim stays true to it's vim roots while adding modern features including a plugin management system, a curated plugin set with customized configuration, advanced autocomplete, tags, support for dozens of languages and much more.
spf13-vim 3.0 release and new website
spf13-vim is a cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim.
2
Posts
java
9 MongoDB 2.6 Drivers Released
I’m pleased to announce the coordinated release of drivers in 9 languages in preparation for …
The Browser as an application platform
With Google launching their chrome book is significant as it reflects a substantial shift in …
2
Posts
javascript
Building Modern Web Applications
I gave this presentation to a packed house at DevCon5 in NYC July 24th. DevCon5 is a web …
Building your First app with MongoDB at MongoSV 2011
10gen had our flagship conference in Silicon Valley. I gave an introductory presentation at the …
2
Posts
large scale distributed
MongoDB, Hadoop and Humongous Data
Learn how to integrate MongoDB with Hadoop for large-scale distributed data processing.
MongoDB and Hadoop
Learn how to integrate MongoDB with Hadoop for large-scale distributed data processing.
2
Posts
nyc
Not Just Hadoop: NoSQL in the Enterprise at Strata NYC 2012
open source NoSQL solution MongoDB and data processor Hadoop have made big data accessible. Previously big data meant proprietary software and big hardware.
The most productive 20 minutes of my day
As part of my new years resolution to get in shape and spend less dough I decided that I’d be …
2
Posts
perl
Pointers vs References
Some languages including C, C++ support pointers. Other languages including C++, Java, Python, …
spf13-vim : Steve Francia's Vim Distribution
spf13-vim is a distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, Gvim and MacVim. It is a good …
2
Posts
personal
spf13 Google -->
I’m leaving my role as the Product Lead for the Go Language at Google. I’m super proud of …
Go Go Hugo blog
After after a few months of work I’m happy to display the newest incarnation of …
2
Posts
presentations
Giving the most viewed presentation on slideshare ever at OSCON
Giving a presentation that had more views on slideshare in it's first week than any other OSCON presentation had in 12 years.
NoSQL Databases
Amazon, Digg, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter all started on sql databases (all but Amazon on …
2
Posts
profile
Human readable du sorted by size
du is the *nix command for disk usage. It tells you how much space everything in the given …
Managing Multiple Firefox Profiles in OS X
Sometimes you need more than one profile in Firefox. This post will show you how to manage multiple profiles in Firefox.
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Posts
programming
Creating your own Symfony2 Bundle
Symfony2 is a great web framework. OpenSky is built on this framework and we are one of the …
VIM Crash Course
Most developers know the basics of VIM, enough to edit a conf file, but most stay there, …
2
Posts
programming-languages
The 9 Cost Factors
A comprehensive framework for evaluating the total, long-term economic impact of programming language choices across nine critical cost dimensions.
Why Engineers Can't Be Rational About Programming Languages
The neuroscience of why we make million dollar decisions based on identity, not data.
2
Posts
replication
Replication, Durability, and Disaster Recovery
This session introduces the basic components of high availability before going into a deep dive on MongoDB replication.
Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery
How to go about creating better backups through replication and snapshots and how to ensure that your infrastructure has a solid disaster recovery plan.
2
Posts
rust
Rust vs Go Panel at RustLab Conference
The folks at Develer liked JT’s and my article Rust vs Go - Better together so much they …
Rust vs Go: Better Together
While others may see Rust and Go as competitive programming languages, neither the Rust nor the …
2
Posts
screen
Unix Jobs Management
Every self respecting linux, mac os X or *nix user should have a solid handle on managing jobs …
Be more productive using GNU Screen
Tips, Techniques and Tricks for using GNU Screen to increase your productivity.
2
Posts
shell script
Easy bash scripting with shflags
One of the most frustrating things about bash scripts is how challenging it is to create unix …
Backup Your Files
This article will show you how to automatically backup your files often and automatically.
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Posts
shopping
Selling on OpenSky
As anyone who reads my blog or follows my tweets knows, I’ve been working for a new startup …
Why are you still shopping offline?
Has the day finally come where a person can do most of their shopping right from their livingroom?
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Posts
spf13-vim
Why I use spf13-vim
a completely cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim stays true to it's vim roots while adding modern features including a plugin management system, a curated plugin set with customized configuration, advanced autocomplete, tags, support for dozens of languages and much more.
spf13-vim 3.0 release and new website
spf13-vim is a cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim.
2
Posts
ssh
Secure Automated, Key Based SSH
SSH is great and secure… Unless you need to automate it. Then it sucks because your only …
Setting up Subversion with multiple access methods
One thing that makes subversion such a powerful revision system is it’s ability to permit …
2
Posts
steve jobs
Fascinating interview with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
In 2007, All Things Digital held a fascinating interview with both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. …
Apple's iconic presentations
Recently a book came out The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to be Insanely Great in …
2
Posts
subversion
Setting up Subversion with multiple access methods
One thing that makes subversion such a powerful revision system is it’s ability to permit …
Using SVK to Increase Productivity
After subversion but before Git there was SVK. If you are stuck using subversion do yourself a favor and use svk.
2
Posts
svn
Setting up Subversion with multiple access methods
One thing that makes subversion such a powerful revision system is it’s ability to permit …
Using SVK to Increase Productivity
After subversion but before Git there was SVK. If you are stuck using subversion do yourself a favor and use svk.
2
Posts
sysadmin
Unix Jobs Management
Every self respecting linux, mac os X or *nix user should have a solid handle on managing jobs …
Scaling Web Sites (LAMP) : Top Resources
Luckily it’s 2009 and there have been a bunch of successful websites that have had to deal with …
2
Posts
vimscript
Why I use spf13-vim
a completely cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim stays true to it's vim roots while adding modern features including a plugin management system, a curated plugin set with customized configuration, advanced autocomplete, tags, support for dozens of languages and much more.
spf13-vim 3.0 release and new website
spf13-vim is a cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim.
2
Posts
viper
Cobra & Viper Fortify Security as Part of GitHub Secure Open Source Fund
When foundational open source projects like Cobra and Viper level up their security game, the entire ecosystem wins. Here's what we learned together.
Drupal and the secret of my success
As my tenure on the Drupal Association was concluding, I was asked to give the Keynote for …
1
Post
10gen
MongoDB Driver days hackathon round up
A round up of projects created during the driver days hack day by the 10gen drivers team focused on the MongoDB user experience.
1
Post
1and1
Installing Git on a Shared Host
Git is a fantastic tool and is very useful for deployment. If you can’t install git system wide …
1
Post
advocacy
Evangelism is NOT Sales
I recently had a discussion with a CFO of a technology company. We were meeting because he is …
1
Post
amazon web services
Competition for the Cloud Heats Up
Cloud no longer a single vendor game. For years cloud computing has been synonymous with Amazon …
1
Post
analytics
Analyzing and Improving Conversion
Conversion is one of those core metrics that every business depends on and strives to improve. …
1
Post
announcement
Promotion
Portero Inc, the worlds leading online luxury destination, announces the promotion of Steve Francia to CIO.
1
Post
apache
Scaling Web Sites (LAMP) : Top Resources
Luckily it’s 2009 and there have been a bunch of successful websites that have had to deal with …
1
Post
apache cassandra
NoSQL databases and Managing Big Data
A review of the various NoSQL databases including MongoDB, cassandra, redis and how they handle big data.
1
Post
api
REST vs SOAP, the difference between soap and rest
What's SOAP? What's REST? and what the differences are between them with recommendations of when to use REST versus SOAP
1
Post
archive
Backing up MySQL
How to fully automate the backup of a MySQL database system.
1
Post
artificial-intelligence
How Benjamin Franklin Invented Machine Learning in 1720
Benjamin Franklin discovered gradient descent 250 years before we had the mathematics to describe it.
1
Post
availability
Replication, Durability, and Disaster Recovery
This session introduces the basic components of high availability before going into a deep dive on MongoDB replication.
1
Post
aws
Benchmarking Cloudfront (and S3)
Amazon has done it again bringing another computing service to the masses. This time it’s the …
1
Post
backups
Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery
How to go about creating better backups through replication and snapshots and how to ensure that your infrastructure has a solid disaster recovery plan.
1
Post
better backups
Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery
How to go about creating better backups through replication and snapshots and how to ensure that your infrastructure has a solid disaster recovery plan.
1
Post
bill gates
Fascinating interview with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
In 2007, All Things Digital held a fascinating interview with both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. …
1
Post
blackberry
How RIM handed the mobile market over to Apple
Just because you are the market leader doesn't mean you will stay the market leader. A lesson on competition given by Apple to RIM.
1
Post
blog software
Getting started with Drupal and MongoDB
Drupal is the standard in content management systems. MongoDB enables high performance Drupal. Get started with a MongoDB backed Drupal.
1
Post
book
MongoDB and PHP, The Book
I wrote a book. It is published by O’Reilly, and available now on Amazon, O’Reilly Media and a …
1
Post
branding
New Go Branding Strategy
I joined the GoTime podcast and told them EVERYTHING about Go’s new branding strategy (and …
1
Post
bubble
Pandora's IPO ... a sign of the times
Pandora filed their IPO today. By end of day Pandora was worth 3.2 Billion . The amazing thing …
1
Post
business continuity planning
The Biggest Myths Surrounding Disaster Recovery
There are many reasons companies fail to create an effective disaster recovery plan. Far too often they fall prey to the common myths of disaster recovery.
1
Post
c
Pointers vs References
Some languages including C, C++ support pointers. Other languages including C++, Java, Python, …
1
Post
c++
Pointers vs References
Some languages including C, C++ support pointers. Other languages including C++, Java, Python, …
1
Post
cake
Next Gen PHP Frameworks
With the release of PHP 5.3, PHP released the most significant capabilities in years. …
1
Post
capital
Portero Raises 6.6 Million
In a round of financing led by LFE Capital Portero Inc, the worlds leading online luxury store raises 6.6 million to build out a robust technology platform.
1
Post
cassandra
NoSQL Databases
Amazon, Digg, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter all started on sql databases (all but Amazon on …
1
Post
cisco
Hire Your Next Consultant Using Twitter
How to find great and qualified people to hire using Twitter.
1
Post
cloud storage
The Biggest Myths Surrounding Disaster Recovery
There are many reasons companies fail to create an effective disaster recovery plan. Far too often they fall prey to the common myths of disaster recovery.
1
Post
cloudfront
Benchmarking Cloudfront (and S3)
Amazon has done it again bringing another computing service to the masses. This time it’s the …
1
Post
code-in
Life, Liberty, and Golang
A semi-autobiographical presentation given to the winners of Google’s 2017 Code-in …
1
Post
command line
Mastering the Command Line
If you use *nix, no doubt you’ve spent some time on the command line. Here are a few of the …
1
Post
command-line interface
Creating a Symfony2 Console Command
One of the weaknesses of PHP as a languages has always been it’s ability to write proper …
1
Post
common myths
The Biggest Myths Surrounding Disaster Recovery
There are many reasons companies fail to create an effective disaster recovery plan. Far too often they fall prey to the common myths of disaster recovery.
1
Post
computer data
Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery
How to go about creating better backups through replication and snapshots and how to ensure that your infrastructure has a solid disaster recovery plan.
1
Post
computer storage
Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery
How to go about creating better backups through replication and snapshots and how to ensure that your infrastructure has a solid disaster recovery plan.
1
Post
computing platform
The Browser as an application platform
With Google launching their chrome book is significant as it reflects a substantial shift in …
1
Post
content management
Getting started with Drupal and MongoDB
Drupal is the standard in content management systems. MongoDB enables high performance Drupal. Get started with a MongoDB backed Drupal.
1
Post
content management systems
Getting started with Drupal and MongoDB
Drupal is the standard in content management systems. MongoDB enables high performance Drupal. Get started with a MongoDB backed Drupal.
1
Post
contributing
How to Contribute to Go
I wrote this presentation with Jessie Frazelle. She made it look very nice and delivered it at …
1
Post
conversion
Analyzing and Improving Conversion
Conversion is one of those core metrics that every business depends on and strives to improve. …
1
Post
css3
Go Go Hugo blog
After after a few months of work I’m happy to display the newest incarnation of …
1
Post
data analysis
Not Just Hadoop: NoSQL in the Enterprise at Strata NYC 2012
open source NoSQL solution MongoDB and data processor Hadoop have made big data accessible. Previously big data meant proprietary software and big hardware.
1
Post
data center
The Biggest Myths Surrounding Disaster Recovery
There are many reasons companies fail to create an effective disaster recovery plan. Far too often they fall prey to the common myths of disaster recovery.
1
Post
data loss
Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery
How to go about creating better backups through replication and snapshots and how to ensure that your infrastructure has a solid disaster recovery plan.
1
Post
data processor
Not Just Hadoop: NoSQL in the Enterprise at Strata NYC 2012
open source NoSQL solution MongoDB and data processor Hadoop have made big data accessible. Previously big data meant proprietary software and big hardware.
1
Post
data storage
Not Just Hadoop: NoSQL in the Enterprise at Strata NYC 2012
open source NoSQL solution MongoDB and data processor Hadoop have made big data accessible. Previously big data meant proprietary software and big hardware.
1
Post
data tools
MongoDB, Hadoop and humongous data at MongoSV 2012
Presentation given at MongoSV 2012 on processing big data with MongoDB using Hadoop integration & the MongoDB aggregation framework.
1
Post
database management systems
Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery
How to go about creating better backups through replication and snapshots and how to ensure that your infrastructure has a solid disaster recovery plan.
1
Post
datacenters
Multi Data Center Strategies and MongoDB
Data Center Strategies for deployment to multiple data centers, Including a deep dive into deploying MongoDB across a wide area network.
1
Post
disaster recovery plan
Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery
How to go about creating better backups through replication and snapshots and how to ensure that your infrastructure has a solid disaster recovery plan.
1
Post
doctrine
Blending Mongo and RDBMS for ecommerce
Justin Hileman and I presented at MongoNYC 2011 to a packed house. Our presentation outlines …
1
Post
driver team
MongoDB Driver days hackathon round up
A round up of projects created during the driver days hack day by the 10gen drivers team focused on the MongoDB user experience.
1
Post
drivers
MongoDB Driver days hackathon round up
A round up of projects created during the driver days hack day by the 10gen drivers team focused on the MongoDB user experience.
1
Post
drupal core
Getting started with Drupal and MongoDB
Drupal is the standard in content management systems. MongoDB enables high performance Drupal. Get started with a MongoDB backed Drupal.
1
Post
du
Human readable du sorted by size
du is the *nix command for disk usage. It tells you how much space everything in the given …
1
Post
durability
Replication, Durability, and Disaster Recovery
This session introduces the basic components of high availability before going into a deep dive on MongoDB replication.
1
Post
dynamic content
Getting started with Drupal and MongoDB
Drupal is the standard in content management systems. MongoDB enables high performance Drupal. Get started with a MongoDB backed Drupal.
1
Post
ebay
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace (eBay)
Do you still remember when eBay was a great place to buy and sell things? Today most auctions …
1
Post
editor
spf13-vim : Steve Francia's Vim Distribution
spf13-vim is a distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, Gvim and MacVim. It is a good …
1
Post
emacs
Mastering the Command Line
If you use *nix, no doubt you’ve spent some time on the command line. Here are a few of the …
1
Post
emergency management
The Biggest Myths Surrounding Disaster Recovery
There are many reasons companies fail to create an effective disaster recovery plan. Far too often they fall prey to the common myths of disaster recovery.
1
Post
employment
Growing in a Down Economy
Strategies for growing while your competition shrinks in a down economy.
1
Post
enable
Getting started with Drupal and MongoDB
Drupal is the standard in content management systems. MongoDB enables high performance Drupal. Get started with a MongoDB backed Drupal.
1
Post
evangelism
Evangelism is NOT Sales
I recently had a discussion with a CFO of a technology company. We were meeting because he is …
1
Post
firefox
Managing Multiple Firefox Profiles in OS X
Sometimes you need more than one profile in Firefox. This post will show you how to manage multiple profiles in Firefox.
1
Post
flickr
Scaling Web Sites (LAMP) : Top Resources
Luckily it’s 2009 and there have been a bunch of successful websites that have had to deal with …
1
Post
focus
The Importance of Focus
Imagine if Apple, Disney, Microsoft, etc had chased every oppotunity that they came across. One …
1
Post
follow friday
A Better Follow Friday
Follow Friday is a common practice on Twitter where many people spend friday posting things …
1
Post
framework
On Symfony2
Symfony2 is the latest brainchild of Fabien Potencier.
1
Post
frameworks
Next Gen PHP Frameworks
With the release of PHP 5.3, PHP released the most significant capabilities in years. …
1
Post
friendfeed
Facebook Meets Twitter & FriendFeed
For the past few months Facebook has been obsessed with Twitter. It’s easy to see why. Twitter …
1
Post
genealogy
MongoDB for Genealogy at RootsTech 2012
After an enjoyable time at the SORT conference in 2011 I was invited to come back to SLC to …
1
Post
giving a presentation
Giving the most viewed presentation on slideshare ever at OSCON
Giving a presentation that had more views on slideshare in it's first week than any other OSCON presentation had in 12 years.
1
Post
gnu
Be more productive using GNU Screen
Tips, Techniques and Tricks for using GNU Screen to increase your productivity.
1
Post
godaddy
Installing Git on a Shared Host
Git is a fantastic tool and is very useful for deployment. If you can’t install git system wide …
1
Post
gothamgo
7 Common mistakes in Go and when to avoid them – Gotham Go
Not a generic list of programming mistakes, these are the lessons I wish I learned earlier …
1
Post
graph
MongoDB for Genealogy at RootsTech 2012
After an enjoyable time at the SORT conference in 2011 I was invited to come back to SLC to …
1
Post
hack
MongoDB Driver days hackathon round up
A round up of projects created during the driver days hack day by the 10gen drivers team focused on the MongoDB user experience.
1
Post
hack day
MongoDB Driver days hackathon round up
A round up of projects created during the driver days hack day by the 10gen drivers team focused on the MongoDB user experience.
1
Post
help
Take Time to Help Others
While it may not seem intuitive taking time out to selflessly help others will help you more …
1
Post
high availability
Replication, Durability, and Disaster Recovery
This session introduces the basic components of high availability before going into a deep dive on MongoDB replication.
1
Post
hiring
Finding the Right People
Since I began at Open Sky a few weeks ago I have been tasked with building out a great team. …
1
Post
hosting
Choosing a Hosting Partner
No question about it, choosing a good hosting partner is one of the most important decisions a …
1
Post
hp
Competition for the Cloud Heats Up
Cloud no longer a single vendor game. For years cloud computing has been synonymous with Amazon …
1
Post
html
The Browser as an application platform
With Google launching their chrome book is significant as it reflects a substantial shift in …
1
Post
html5
Go Go Hugo blog
After after a few months of work I’m happy to display the newest incarnation of …
1
Post
information risk management
The Biggest Myths Surrounding Disaster Recovery
There are many reasons companies fail to create an effective disaster recovery plan. Far too often they fall prey to the common myths of disaster recovery.
1
Post
information technology
Not Just Hadoop: NoSQL in the Enterprise at Strata NYC 2012
open source NoSQL solution MongoDB and data processor Hadoop have made big data accessible. Previously big data meant proprietary software and big hardware.
1
Post
infrastructure
Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery
How to go about creating better backups through replication and snapshots and how to ensure that your infrastructure has a solid disaster recovery plan.
1
Post
intellectual property
Protecting Intellectual Property on Your Blog
6 steps to protect your intellectual property as posted on your blog, forum or website.
1
Post
intellectual property protection
Protecting Intellectual Property on Your Blog
6 steps to protect your intellectual property as posted on your blog, forum or website.
1
Post
iphone
How RIM handed the mobile market over to Apple
Just because you are the market leader doesn't mean you will stay the market leader. A lesson on competition given by Apple to RIM.
1
Post
ipo
Pandora's IPO ... a sign of the times
Pandora filed their IPO today. By end of day Pandora was worth 3.2 Billion . The amazing thing …
1
Post
jquery
My Online Business Card (Vcard)
I wanted to polish up my javascript coding so I decided that the best way to do that was with a …
1
Post
karma
Take Time to Help Others
While it may not seem intuitive taking time out to selflessly help others will help you more …
1
Post
keychain
Secure Automated, Key Based SSH
SSH is great and secure… Unless you need to automate it. Then it sucks because your only …
1
Post
language design
Go – On The Shoulders of Giants
This presentation was developed for Curry On and delivered as the closing keynote of the …
1
Post
learning
16 lessons from 16 years
16 lessons learned I learned from my first 16 years working in the technology industry.
1
Post
learning-systems
How Benjamin Franklin Invented Machine Learning in 1720
Benjamin Franklin discovered gradient descent 250 years before we had the mathematics to describe it.
1
Post
lessons
16 lessons from 16 years
16 lessons learned I learned from my first 16 years working in the technology industry.
1
Post
54% US Companies Ban Social Media... and That's Fine
According to a study commissioned by Robert Half Technology, an IT staffing company, 54 percent …
1
Post
lithium
Next Gen PHP Frameworks
With the release of PHP 5.3, PHP released the most significant capabilities in years. …
1
Post
luxury
Portero Raises 6.6 Million
In a round of financing led by LFE Capital Portero Inc, the worlds leading online luxury store raises 6.6 million to build out a robust technology platform.
1
Post
mac
Managing Multiple Firefox Profiles in OS X
Sometimes you need more than one profile in Firefox. This post will show you how to manage multiple profiles in Firefox.
1
Post
machine-learning
How Benjamin Franklin Invented Machine Learning in 1720
Benjamin Franklin discovered gradient descent 250 years before we had the mathematics to describe it.
1
Post
marketing
Analyzing and Improving Conversion
Conversion is one of those core metrics that every business depends on and strives to improve. …
1
Post
marketplace
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace (eBay)
Do you still remember when eBay was a great place to buy and sell things? Today most auctions …
1
Post
mgo
Using MongoDB with Go and mgo
This presentation will give developers an introduction and practical experience of using MongoDB with the Go language. MongoDB Chief Developer Advocate & Gopher Steve Francia presents plainly what you need to know about using MongoDB with Go.
1
Post
myspace
Stop Twitter from Becoming the next MySpace
6 months ago Twitter was the best place in existence to use and develop great relations with …
1
Post
new years resolution
The most productive 20 minutes of my day
As part of my new years resolution to get in shape and spend less dough I decided that I’d be …
1
Post
nginx
Using Nginx as a Load Balancer
Nginx is a relatively new web server that has a light footprint and relatively easy …
1
Post
nintendo
Software Development's Magic Triangle
There’s an old adage “Fast, Cheap, Good; Pick Two”. This situation is called a magic triangle. …
1
Post
node.js
9 MongoDB 2.6 Drivers Released
I’m pleased to announce the coordinated release of drivers in 9 languages in preparation for …
1
Post
object-oriented
Is Go an Object Oriented language?
To truly understand what it means to be ‘object-oriented’ you need to look back at the …
1
Post
operating systems
the future of the Operating System - LinuxCon 2015 keynote
Given as a keynote at LinuxCon + CloudOpen Japan 2015. Linux has become the foundation for …
1
Post
orbitz
Not Just Hadoop: NoSQL in the Enterprise at Strata NYC 2012
open source NoSQL solution MongoDB and data processor Hadoop have made big data accessible. Previously big data meant proprietary software and big hardware.
1
Post
os x
Managing Multiple Firefox Profiles in OS X
Sometimes you need more than one profile in Firefox. This post will show you how to manage multiple profiles in Firefox.
1
Post
pandora
Pandora's IPO ... a sign of the times
Pandora filed their IPO today. By end of day Pandora was worth 3.2 Billion . The amazing thing …
1
Post
panel
Rust vs Go Panel at RustLab Conference
The folks at Develer liked JT’s and my article Rust vs Go - Better together so much they …
1
Post
password
Using the right keys
Today I was visiting a friends office and like many offices in NYC they have a shared bathroom …
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pear
Getting Started with MongoDB and PHP
The first in a series of posts on MongoDB and PHP that will both explain why you should use MongoDB and teach you how.
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photography
Add PhotoshopCS5 support to Picasa
How to easily add a button in Picasa that will allow you to edit the current picture in Photoshop.
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photoshop
Add PhotoshopCS5 support to Picasa
How to easily add a button in Picasa that will allow you to edit the current picture in Photoshop.
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picasa
Add PhotoshopCS5 support to Picasa
How to easily add a button in Picasa that will allow you to edit the current picture in Photoshop.
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portero
Portero Raises 6.6 Million
In a round of financing led by LFE Capital Portero Inc, the worlds leading online luxury store raises 6.6 million to build out a robust technology platform.
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postgresql
Hybrid MongoDB / SQL Applications
MongoDB is often used alongside a relational database such as Oracle or MySQL. It is often …
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presentation
Multi Data Center Strategies and MongoDB
Data Center Strategies for deployment to multiple data centers, Including a deep dive into deploying MongoDB across a wide area network.
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product management
Product Management for Everyone
An interactive workshop developed for and given at the Landing Festival in Berlin 2019. This …
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productivity
The most productive 20 minutes of my day
As part of my new years resolution to get in shape and spend less dough I decided that I’d be …
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profiling
Nitro : A quick and simple profiler for golang
Nitro is a quick and easy performance analyzer library for golang. It is useful for comparing …
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pushups
One Hundred Pushups
Move over skinny nerds. I've begun the 100 puphup challenge and am announcing it here to ensure I take it seriously.
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rackspace
Competition for the Cloud Heats Up
Cloud no longer a single vendor game. For years cloud computing has been synonymous with Amazon …
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raid
Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery
How to go about creating better backups through replication and snapshots and how to ensure that your infrastructure has a solid disaster recovery plan.
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recovery
Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery
How to go about creating better backups through replication and snapshots and how to ensure that your infrastructure has a solid disaster recovery plan.
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recovery plan
Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery
How to go about creating better backups through replication and snapshots and how to ensure that your infrastructure has a solid disaster recovery plan.
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recruiting
Finding the Right People
Since I began at Open Sky a few weeks ago I have been tasked with building out a great team. …
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redis
NoSQL databases and Managing Big Data
A review of the various NoSQL databases including MongoDB, cassandra, redis and how they handle big data.
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remote procedure call
REST vs SOAP, the difference between soap and rest
What's SOAP? What's REST? and what the differences are between them with recommendations of when to use REST versus SOAP
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representational state transfer
REST vs SOAP, the difference between soap and rest
What's SOAP? What's REST? and what the differences are between them with recommendations of when to use REST versus SOAP
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resources
NoSQL Databases
Amazon, Digg, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter all started on sql databases (all but Amazon on …
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responsive
Go Go Hugo blog
After after a few months of work I’m happy to display the newest incarnation of …
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rest
REST vs SOAP, the difference between soap and rest
What's SOAP? What's REST? and what the differences are between them with recommendations of when to use REST versus SOAP
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rim
How RIM handed the mobile market over to Apple
Just because you are the market leader doesn't mean you will stay the market leader. A lesson on competition given by Apple to RIM.
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rpc
REST vs SOAP, the difference between soap and rest
What's SOAP? What's REST? and what the differences are between them with recommendations of when to use REST versus SOAP
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rsa
Secure Automated, Key Based SSH
SSH is great and secure… Unless you need to automate it. Then it sucks because your only …
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s3
Benchmarking Cloudfront (and S3)
Amazon has done it again bringing another computing service to the masses. This time it’s the …
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scala
9 MongoDB 2.6 Drivers Released
I’m pleased to announce the coordinated release of drivers in 9 languages in preparation for …
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scaling
Scaling Web Sites (LAMP) : Top Resources
Luckily it’s 2009 and there have been a bunch of successful websites that have had to deal with …
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script
Managing Multiple Firefox Profiles in OS X
Sometimes you need more than one profile in Firefox. This post will show you how to manage multiple profiles in Firefox.
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search
The Death of Search
Social media will be the next innovation in the most unlikely of places, search ( leveraging …
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semantic web
The Death of Search
Social media will be the next innovation in the most unlikely of places, search ( leveraging …
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shell
Easy bash scripting with shflags
One of the most frustrating things about bash scripts is how challenging it is to create unix …
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shop
Selling on OpenSky
As anyone who reads my blog or follows my tweets knows, I’ve been working for a new startup …
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slideshare
Giving the most viewed presentation on slideshare ever at OSCON
Giving a presentation that had more views on slideshare in it's first week than any other OSCON presentation had in 12 years.
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snapshot
Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery
How to go about creating better backups through replication and snapshots and how to ensure that your infrastructure has a solid disaster recovery plan.
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snipmate
Vim Plugins: snipMate
Why use it It’s super easy to use It has tons of snippets It’s pretty well compatible with …
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soap
REST vs SOAP, the difference between soap and rest
What's SOAP? What's REST? and what the differences are between them with recommendations of when to use REST versus SOAP
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social web
The Death of Search
Social media will be the next innovation in the most unlikely of places, search ( leveraging …
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software
Release early, release often to minimize risk
Release Cycles have been debated for the last 30 years and will certainly be for the next 30. …
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software architecture
REST vs SOAP, the difference between soap and rest
What's SOAP? What's REST? and what the differences are between them with recommendations of when to use REST versus SOAP
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ssh-agent
Secure Automated, Key Based SSH
SSH is great and secure… Unless you need to automate it. Then it sucks because your only …
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strata
Not Just Hadoop: NoSQL in the Enterprise at Strata NYC 2012
open source NoSQL solution MongoDB and data processor Hadoop have made big data accessible. Previously big data meant proprietary software and big hardware.
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strata nyc
Not Just Hadoop: NoSQL in the Enterprise at Strata NYC 2012
open source NoSQL solution MongoDB and data processor Hadoop have made big data accessible. Previously big data meant proprietary software and big hardware.
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structured storage
Not Just Hadoop: NoSQL in the Enterprise at Strata NYC 2012
open source NoSQL solution MongoDB and data processor Hadoop have made big data accessible. Previously big data meant proprietary software and big hardware.
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success
The Importance of Focus
Imagine if Apple, Disney, Microsoft, etc had chased every oppotunity that they came across. One …
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svk
Using SVK to Increase Productivity
After subversion but before Git there was SVK. If you are stuck using subversion do yourself a favor and use svk.
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systems
Unix Jobs Management
Every self respecting linux, mac os X or *nix user should have a solid handle on managing jobs …
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terminal
Be more productive using GNU Screen
Tips, Techniques and Tricks for using GNU Screen to increase your productivity.
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text editor
Ultimate Vim Config
I have spent the last few years tweaking and refining my VIM configuration until I had the …
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thon
MongoDB Driver days hackathon round up
A round up of projects created during the driver days hack day by the 10gen drivers team focused on the MongoDB user experience.
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tree
MongoDB for Genealogy at RootsTech 2012
After an enjoyable time at the SORT conference in 2011 I was invited to come back to SLC to …
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tutorial
How to deliver a great conference tutorial
4 secrets I used to give the most popular presentation in the history of OSCON.
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unix
Unix Jobs Management
Every self respecting linux, mac os X or *nix user should have a solid handle on managing jobs …
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vc
Portero Raises 6.6 Million
In a round of financing led by LFE Capital Portero Inc, the worlds leading online luxury store raises 6.6 million to build out a robust technology platform.
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vcard
My Online Business Card (Vcard)
I wanted to polish up my javascript coding so I decided that the best way to do that was with a …
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vendor
Checking Vendor References
One task that should be part of every IT managers is performing reference checks on potential …
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view presentation
Giving the most viewed presentation on slideshare ever at OSCON
Giving a presentation that had more views on slideshare in it's first week than any other OSCON presentation had in 12 years.
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web browser
The Browser as an application platform
With Google launching their chrome book is significant as it reflects a substantial shift in …
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web service
REST vs SOAP, the difference between soap and rest
What's SOAP? What's REST? and what the differences are between them with recommendations of when to use REST versus SOAP
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web services
REST vs SOAP, the difference between soap and rest
What's SOAP? What's REST? and what the differences are between them with recommendations of when to use REST versus SOAP
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web standards
REST vs SOAP, the difference between soap and rest
What's SOAP? What's REST? and what the differences are between them with recommendations of when to use REST versus SOAP
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wiki
Implementing a Corporate Wiki
Steps to choose and implement a corporate wiki from access policies to adoption
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win 7
Windows 7 launch notes
I was fortunate to be able to attend the Microsoft Launch Developer Preview meeting in NYC. …
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windows
Windows 7 launch notes
I was fortunate to be able to attend the Microsoft Launch Developer Preview meeting in NYC. …
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wordpress
Moving to WordPress
I’ve used Drupal to power my blog since I started it over 2 years ago. It has been a bitter …
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wordpress 3.0
Moving to WordPress
I’ve used Drupal to power my blog since I started it over 2 years ago. It has been a bitter …
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ws security
REST vs SOAP, the difference between soap and rest
What's SOAP? What's REST? and what the differences are between them with recommendations of when to use REST versus SOAP
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zoop
Next Gen PHP Frameworks
With the release of PHP 5.3, PHP released the most significant capabilities in years. …