Meta-dataHello again, welcome to #9. Today we have 21 subscribers, so we're -1. I'm crying right now into my vesper martini. I'd love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come at Cote.io and [@cote](https://micro.blog/cote). SponsorMy work, 451 Research has it's big cloud conference coming up in October. More of the agenda has been posted today, it seems.

Meta-dataHello again, welcome to #8. Not so brief today with all the typing, I know. Today we have still have 22 subscribers. I'd love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come at Cote.io and [@cote](https://micro.blog/cote). Sponsor451 Research has our big cloud conference this October 6th to 9th. I'll be there giving talks on developer relations and marketing; most vendors and service providers getting into cloud need to start catering to this core set of decision makers and buyers.

Meta-dataHello again, welcome to #7. Today we have 22 subscribers, so we're +1. I'd love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come at Cote.io and [@cote](https://micro.blog/cote). Sponsor451 Research, is having it's big cloud conferences this Fall, Oct. 6th to 8th. I'll have a session or two on developer relations and marketing, and other analysts will be talking about their area.

Meta-dataHello again, welcome to #7. Today we have 21 subscribers, so we're +1 again. I'd love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come at Cote.io and [@cote](https://micro.blog/cote). Sponsor451 Research, is having it's big cloud conferences this Fall, Oct. 6th to 8th. I'll have a session or two on developer relations and marketing, and other analysts will be talking about their area.

Meta-dataHello again, welcome to #6. It's Friday night, and most of time was spent talking with people, so this will be short. Today we have 20 subscribers, so we're +1. I'd love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come at Cote.io and [@cote](https://micro.blog/cote). SponsorI mentioned a few newsletters back that my work, 451 Research, is having it's big cloud conferences this Fall, Oct.

Meta-dataHello again, welcome to #5. This one will be short. Today we have 19 subscribers. It's starting to smell like real growth hacking up in here! I'd love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come at Cote.io and [@cote](https://micro.blog/cote). SponsorYesterday, I mentioned that my work, 451 Research, hosts small "round table" events to talk with practitioners and IT buyers.

Meta-dataHello again, welcome to #4. Today we have 16 subscribers, but one of them is my work address. So, we're +2! If you're a subscriber, I'd love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come at Cote.io and [@cote](https://micro.blog/cote). SponsorMy work, 451 Research puts on "round-table" events where end-users and their managers discuss various aspects and best practices of enterprise IT.

(Hello there! I'm finally getting around to doing a newsletter-y thing. I like the ones I see, the single page of links. In the bricolage style of weblogging, if that word still exists, that I operate in by default, I thought I'd narrow down to a sort of "Selections from the Daily Wunderkammer" for the daily email. I'll try it for awhile and see if it works out.) (The next iteration will drop this introductory text and just be the, you know, "

# SXSWIt's SXSW time in Austin which is always enjoyable. Lots of folks come to town as I'm sure you, dear reader, know. It's popular to complain. - a sentence that could stand on it's own - about it, but I have no beef. I'm lucky enough - so lucky! - to get invited to the #meatup party each year and it's a blast to get some free drinks and meat on top of Fogo de Chão.

I noticed there a few subscribers out there, so I should start writing. "This whole discussion of of application development in the cloud and creating applications"I try to travel less now-a-days with a 5 month and 4 year old, not to mention a wife who enjoys my company. Nonetheless, I was off to IBM Pulse earlier this week in Las Vegas. It's their Tivoli conference, and plenty fun, professionally, now that they're cloud crazy.