Month: December 2011
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New Years Eve 2011
Here is my cliche 2011 wrap up and hopes for 2012: 2011 was a great year in many areas of my life. My company Spark::red enjoyed strong growth and I feel like its been an amazing success. You can read a bit about our growth this year here: Spark::red Year in Review. I travelled to…
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Spark::red 2011 Review and 2012 Preview
2011 has been an amazing year for Spark::red ATG Oracle Commerce Hosting. We’ve added several new clients (including a well known member of the Fortune 1000!) We’ve added 101 new dedicated servers and over 20 cloud computing instances We’ve opened an office in Boston We’ve earned our PCI Level 1 MSP Certification We’ve hired several…
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Snowboarding at Loon Mountain
I went up to Loon Mountain yesterday and did my first snowboarding of the season. I’d never been to Loon, but it seemed nice. It’s early enough in the season that only a small fraction of the runs were open, and the conditions weren’t perfect, but it was a cold crisp day, with some light…
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Siri Reminders flow into OmniFocus
I just discovered that you can setup OmniFocus to pull from your iCloud synced Reminders. That means if you use OmniFocus, as I do, that you can create new ToDo items via Siri: Siri, remind me to call Bob about Oracle tomorrow… Siri, remind me to order shampoo… and so on…. They show up in…
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The Twelve Factor App Review – part 2
Now I’ll tackle the last 6 factors: 7) Port binding [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] They say that every application should internally provide it’s own network protocol servers and not rely on containers like Apache or…
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The Twelve Factor App Review – part 1
I don’t agree with the Twelve Factor App guidelines, and here’s why.