InfoQ interview - Go Language at 13 Years
I had the pleasure of speaking with Olimpiu Pop from InfoQ about the Go language and community. …
84
Posts
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
How to deliver a great conference tutorial
4 secrets I used to give the most popular presentation in the history of OSCON.
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.
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.
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 …
E-commerce in LA
This week I joined a few of my co-workers down in LA. We met with a few companies and ran the …
Easy bash scripting with shflags
One of the most frustrating things about bash scripts is how challenging it is to create unix …
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 …
The Browser as an application platform
With Google launching their chrome book is significant as it reflects a substantial shift in …
Creating your own Symfony2 Bundle
Symfony2 is a great web framework. OpenSky is built on this framework and we are one of the …
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. …
My Favorite Rands Posts
If you don’t know Rands (real name Michael Lopp), you should. His blog is full of excellent …
Augmenting RDBMS with NoSQL for e-commerce
Justin Hileman and I gave a presentation on “Augmenting RDBMS with NoSQL for e-commerce” at the …
Getting Started with Symfony2
In a follow up to my popular post on Symfony2, the open source PHP framework we use at OpenSky, …
On Symfony2
Symfony2 is the latest brainchild of Fabien Potencier.
The perfect .vimrc vim config file
I have spent the last few years tweaking and refining my VIM configuration. This is the …
Software Development's Magic Triangle
There’s an old adage “Fast, Cheap, Good; Pick Two”. This situation is called a magic triangle. …
MongoDB & Ecommerce : A Perfect Combination
Last night I gave a presentation on MongoDB & Ecommerce. OpenSky is the first company to …
16 lessons from 16 years
16 lessons learned I learned from my first 16 years working in the technology industry.
Ultimate Vim Config
I have spent the last few years tweaking and refining my VIM configuration until I had the …
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 …
Human readable du sorted by size
du is the *nix command for disk usage. It tells you how much space everything in the given …
Using the right keys
Today I was visiting a friends office and like many offices in NYC they have a shared bathroom …
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
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 …
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 …
Secure Automated, Key Based SSH
SSH is great and secure… Unless you need to automate it. Then it sucks because your only …
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 …
Vim Plugins: NERD Commenter
The NERD Commenter is an indispensable tool when programming in VIM. It understands like a …
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 …
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.
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.
42
Posts
golang
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 …
Drupal and the secret of my success
As my tenure on the Drupal Association was concluding, I was asked to give the Keynote for …
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 …
37
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 …
E-commerce in LA
This week I joined a few of my co-workers down in LA. We met with a few companies and ran 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 …
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 the …
MongoDB & Ecommerce : A Perfect Combination
Last night I gave a presentation on MongoDB & Ecommerce. OpenSky is the first company to …
28
Posts
personal
The New spf13.com
I’m proud to present the new and improved spf13.com a dramatic redesign of the very first …
Go Go Hugo blog
After after a few months of work I’m happy to display the newest incarnation of …
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.
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.
Add PhotoshopCS5 support to Picasa
How to easily add a button in Picasa that will allow you to edit the current picture in Photoshop.
Don't look now, I'm on DZone
I'm happy to announce that going forward you'll be able to read my articles on DZone as well as spf13.com.
New personal site powered by GitHub Pages
At 10gen we had new headshots taken recently. I think mine came out great. I took this …
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 …
Windows Power User Tools
I’m a huge fan of Windows 7. It’s the first time I’ve ever run a Microsoft OS on my primary …
LDS SORT Tech Conference 2011
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the LDS Church’s SORT tech conference. Nearly 1200 …
Announcing Projects & Presentations
I’ve decided to expand the scope of this site a bit to be more than just a blog. It makes …
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 …
MongoDB & Ecommerce : A Perfect Combination
Last night I gave a presentation on MongoDB & Ecommerce. OpenSky is the first company to …
16 lessons from 16 years
16 lessons learned I learned from my first 16 years working in the technology industry.
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. …
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 …
The Importance of Focus
Imagine if Apple, Disney, Microsoft, etc had chased every oppotunity that they came across. One …
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 …
Take Time to Help Others
While it may not seem intuitive taking time out to selflessly help others will help you more …
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 …
Social Media Recognition
Recently I’ve been fortunate to be recognized in a few publications. I extend a warm welcome to …
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.
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.
Promotion
Portero Inc, the worlds leading online luxury destination, announces the promotion of Steve Francia to CIO.
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.
25
Posts
leadership
Drupal and the secret of my success
As my tenure on the Drupal Association was concluding, I was asked to give the Keynote for …
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. …
My Favorite Rands Posts
If you don’t know Rands (real name Michael Lopp), you should. His blog is full of excellent …
Software Development's Magic Triangle
There’s an old adage “Fast, Cheap, Good; Pick Two”. This situation is called a magic triangle. …
16 lessons from 16 years
16 lessons learned I learned from my first 16 years working in the technology industry.
Watch what you say
I came across an article today titled “Help! My boss is on twitter“. Allow me to share a secret …
The Golden Hammer
Every so often a “new” technology catches on. Right now it’s nosql databases. A couple years …
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. …
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 …
Fascinating interview with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
In 2007, All Things Digital held a fascinating interview with both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. …
The Importance of Focus
Imagine if Apple, Disney, Microsoft, etc had chased every oppotunity that they came across. One …
Checking Vendor References
One task that should be part of every IT managers is performing reference checks on potential …
Engaging Employees
There is one trait that if possessed can virtually ensure success, the ability to nurture a …
Apple's iconic presentations
Recently a book came out The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to be Insanely Great in …
Take Time to Help Others
While it may not seem intuitive taking time out to selflessly help others will help you more …
Featured in CIO Magazine!
I don’t know what could be more shocking that opening this month’s edition of CIO magazine and …
Choosing a Hosting Partner
No question about it, choosing a good hosting partner is one of the most important decisions a …
Social Media Recognition
Recently I’ve been fortunate to be recognized in a few publications. I extend a warm welcome to …
Growing in a Down Economy
Strategies for growing while your competition shrinks in a down economy.
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.
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.
Hire Your Next Consultant Using Twitter
How to find great and qualified people to hire using Twitter.
Promotion
Portero Inc, the worlds leading online luxury destination, announces the promotion of Steve Francia to CIO.
23
Posts
systems
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.
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. …
Easy bash scripting with shflags
One of the most frustrating things about bash scripts is how challenging it is to create unix …
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 …
Benchmarking Cloudfront (and S3)
Amazon has done it again bringing another computing service to the masses. This time it’s the …
Using the right keys
Today I was visiting a friends office and like many offices in NYC they have a shared bathroom …
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
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 …
Secure Automated, Key Based SSH
SSH is great and secure… Unless you need to automate it. Then it sucks because your only …
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 …
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 …
Windows 7 launch notes
I was fortunate to be able to attend the Microsoft Launch Developer Preview meeting in NYC. …
Using Nginx as a Load Balancer
Nginx is a relatively new web server that has a light footprint and relatively easy …
Choosing a Hosting Partner
No question about it, choosing a good hosting partner is one of the most important decisions a …
Setting up Subversion with multiple access methods
One thing that makes subversion such a powerful revision system is it’s ability to permit …
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.
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.
Implementing a Corporate Wiki
Steps to choose and implement a corporate wiki from access policies to adoption
Be more productive using GNU Screen
Tips, Techniques and Tricks for using GNU Screen to increase your productivity.
22
Posts
presentations
Drupal and the secret of my success
As my tenure on the Drupal Association was concluding, I was asked to give the Keynote 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.
MongoDB and PHP Webinar
Workshop on MongoDB and PHP
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.
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.
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.
MongoDB and Hadoop
Learn how to integrate MongoDB with Hadoop for large-scale distributed data processing.
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 …
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 …
E-commerce in LA
This week I joined a few of my co-workers down in LA. We met with a few companies and ran 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 …
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 …
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 the …
MongoDB & Ecommerce : A Perfect Combination
Last night I gave a presentation on MongoDB & Ecommerce. OpenSky is the first company to …
17
Posts
php
Pointers vs References
Some languages including C, C++ support pointers. Other languages including C++, Java, Python, …
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.
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 …
Hybrid MongoDB / SQL Applications
MongoDB is often used alongside a relational database such as Oracle or MySQL. It is often …
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 …
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 …
Announcing Projects & Presentations
I’ve decided to expand the scope of this site a bit to be more than just a blog. It makes …
Augmenting RDBMS with NoSQL for e-commerce
Justin Hileman and I gave a presentation on “Augmenting RDBMS with NoSQL for e-commerce” at the …
Getting Started with Symfony2
In a follow up to my popular post on Symfony2, the open source PHP framework we use at OpenSky, …
On Symfony2
Symfony2 is the latest brainchild of Fabien Potencier.
Ultimate Vim Config
I have spent the last few years tweaking and refining my VIM configuration until I had the …
Next Gen PHP Frameworks
With the release of PHP 5.3, PHP released the most significant capabilities in years. …
13
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.
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.
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.
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.
Competition for the Cloud Heats Up
Cloud no longer a single vendor game. For years cloud computing has been synonymous with Amazon …
Augmenting RDBMS with NoSQL for e-commerce
Justin Hileman and I gave a presentation on “Augmenting RDBMS with NoSQL for e-commerce” at the …
The Golden Hammer
Every so often a “new” technology catches on. Right now it’s nosql databases. A couple years …
Unix Jobs Management
Every self respecting linux, mac os X or *nix user should have a solid handle on managing jobs …
Benchmarking Cloudfront (and S3)
Amazon has done it again bringing another computing service to the masses. This time it’s the …
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
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 …
12
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 …
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 …
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 …
Social Media Recognition
Recently I’ve been fortunate to be recognized in a few publications. I extend a warm welcome to …
New Facebook in Depth Review
Facebook just unveiled their biggest change yet. The http://www.new.facebook.com website is a …
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
12
Posts
tech-industry
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.
Protecting Intellectual Property on Your Blog
6 steps to protect your intellectual property as posted on your blog, forum or website.
Hybrid Cloud Computing
Traditionally ecommerce companies have had no place in the cloud. The lack of established …
Competition for the Cloud Heats Up
Cloud no longer a single vendor game. For years cloud computing has been synonymous with Amazon …
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 …
The Browser as an application platform
With Google launching their chrome book is significant as it reflects a substantial shift in …
Windows 7 launch notes
I was fortunate to be able to attend the Microsoft Launch Developer Preview meeting in NYC. …
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
10
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.
Don't look now, I'm on DZone
I'm happy to announce that going forward you'll be able to read my articles on DZone as well as spf13.com.
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 …
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 …
10
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.
Announcing Projects & Presentations
I’ve decided to expand the scope of this site a bit to be more than just a blog. It makes …
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, …
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
9
Posts
ecommerce
Hybrid MongoDB / SQL Applications
MongoDB is often used alongside a relational database such as Oracle or MySQL. It is often …
E-commerce in LA
This week I joined a few of my co-workers down in LA. We met with a few companies and ran the …
Hybrid Cloud Computing
Traditionally ecommerce companies have had no place in the cloud. The lack of established …
Augmenting RDBMS with NoSQL for e-commerce
Justin Hileman and I gave a presentation on “Augmenting RDBMS with NoSQL for e-commerce” at the …
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 …
Analyzing and Improving Conversion
Conversion is one of those core metrics that every business depends on and strives to improve. …
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 …
Why are you still shopping offline?
Has the day finally come where a person can do most of their shopping right from their livingroom?
9
Posts
open-source
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 …
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 …
8
Posts
scalability
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.
NoSQL databases and Managing Big Data
A review of the various NoSQL databases including MongoDB, cassandra, redis and how they handle big data.
Hybrid Cloud Computing
Traditionally ecommerce companies have had no place in the cloud. The lack of established …
Where have all the good databases gone?
Perhaps you’ll recognize these words, “About five years ago I started to notice an odd thing. …
NoSQL Databases
Amazon, Digg, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter all started on sql databases (all but Amazon on …
Benchmarking Cloudfront (and S3)
Amazon has done it again bringing another computing service to the masses. This time it’s the …
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
community
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 …
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 …
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 …
3
Posts
developer-advocacy
Evangelism is NOT Sales
I recently had a discussion with a CFO of a technology company. We were meeting because he is …
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.
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 …
1
Post
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.
1
Post
data
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
databases
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
docker
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
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 …
1
Post
product-management
Product Management for Everyone
An interactive workshop developed for and given at the Landing Festival in Berlin 2019.
This …
1
Post
programming
What Should a Modern Practical Programming Language Look Like
Keynote delivered at The Landing Festival – Berlin. This presentation describes the many …
1
Post
python
Pointers vs References
Some languages including C, C++ support pointers. Other languages including C++, Java, Python, …
1
Post
ruby
Pointers vs References
Some languages including C, C++ support pointers. Other languages including C++, Java, Python, …