At 30, I’ve spent more of my life as a student than as a “real person”. After a 9 year break from academia, I decided it was time to try being both, enrolling in a Graphic Design course at Portland Community College this spring. While I don’t foresee myself breaking out the T-square in my … Continued
Thanks to everyone who joined us for our October Tech lunch! We enjoyed delicious Middle Eastern food, and listened to outstanding presentations from our fellow team members. First, Shawn Duffy gave a Consultant’s Corner presentation on “Building Equity with Our Clients” to help us build better relationships and communication skills when interfacing with our clients. … Continued
What is Hadoop really? Hadoop is an open source development project managed by Apache. It is based on some technology originally written by Google. There are multiple modules (code bases) available and all perform different tasks, but all focused on the primary directive of Hadoop, processing large volumes of data in a highly available environment. … Continued
The Axian team has had a very exciting month as we’ve headed into Autumn. August 24th was our annual Axian Family Fun Day. For the second year in a row we gathered with our families at Big Al’s for bowling, fantastic food, casino and arcade games, henna tattoos, caricature portraits, and more! Everyone enjoyed themselves … Continued
The longer you stay in software, the more technologies you’ll likely see become commoditized. Things that once used to be quite difficult, specialized, and costly inevitably become simple, accessible, and cheap (if not free). Some examples of capabilities that have been commoditized might include: Antivirus CMS’ Source Control Advanced hosting/infrastructure (e.g. Geo-redundant storage, elastic computing, … Continued
Still Kicking For those who track this stuff, Mono will turn 10 years old this summer. Since June 30th 2004, the Mono team has been relentlessly trailing the ever evolving CLR (Microsoft’s implementation of the CLI), and hasn’t seemed to stop or get bored with the idea. At time of writing, they still trail a … Continued
