by steve | Mar 11, 2014 | Events, News
Steve Peters (that’s me) is speaking at the Technology Association of Oregon’s fifth Ignite event. If you haven’t heard, Ignite is an event started by O’Reilly and features an evening of 5-minute talks by people with important ideas to share....
by steve | Mar 5, 2014 | Events, News
Are you ready to learn how Whatsapp can service 450 million customers with just 32 engineers? Erlang is a programming language used when you want high-speed, highly available, fault tolerant systems. It’s been around for years, quietly running important systems...
by steve | Nov 27, 2013 | News, Technology
I’ve turned my old iPhone 3G into a mobile Web server running MySQL, PHP and lighttp with WordPress! (see screenshot) Here’s how I did it: Step 1: Jailbreak Jailbreak the thing. You need the freedom to fiddle deeper into the phone than Apple is interested...
by steve | Nov 15, 2013 | News, Technology
The Reactive Manifesto Application requirements have changed dramatically in recent years. Only a few years ago a large application had tens of servers, seconds of response time, hours of offline maintenance and gigabytes of data. Today applications are deployed on...
by steve | Nov 4, 2013 | News, Technology
By summer 2014, robots could be teaching kids as young as five years old how to code. Play-i, a company founded in 2012 by veterans from Amazon, Apple, Frog Design and Google has created robots, Bo and Yana, designed for children to learn to how program. “Our children...
by steve | Aug 5, 2013 | News, Technology
Skip to the chase: Download MojoTimer 1.2.1 for OSX here. Hello QuickBooks users. Those of us in the “creative services” and the “technical services” are often billing our clients solely on time performed. QuickBooks ships with a stand-alone...
