Every Dog Has Its Day at Barrel Oak Winery
Vineyard owner champions new Virginia law allowing dogs inside tasting rooms. It’s 11:00 a.m. on a summer Saturday in Delaplane, Virginia. At Barrel Oak Winery (BOW) the
Exploring Dog-Friendly Vineyards Around Napa
Over the summer, Cork Hounds [finally] ventured west to the national [and arguably world] epicenter of wine -- Napa, California. For this trip, my co-founder Jeremy and dog Greta, stayed
Part 2: Containerizing and Running Foursquare's TwoFishes with Persistent Storage
In Part 1 of this two-part series, I looked at Forward and Reverse Geocoding using FourSquare's TwoFishes. I provided some background on TwoFishes, and shared some lessons that I learned
Part 1: Forward and Reverse Geocoding using FourSquare's TwoFishes
Last year, I created the Amazon Alexa Skill for Cork Hounds which takes a City/State, and responds with the nearest fully dog friendly vineyard. When I first started that
Exploring Dog-Friendly Vineyards Along the Outer Banks of North Carolina
I grew up in a large family living in Michigan surrounded by lakes. But we never spent time vacationing at them because my mother distrusted lake water. Therefore, every summer
Drink What You Like At These Dog-Friendly Wineries in Arkansas
When you think of Arkansas you probably don't think of 'wine country,' but I'm here to tell y'all... We ain't just moonshine and banjos! Since the late 1800's immigrants
Exploring Dog-Friendly Vineyards in the North Georgia Mountains
I lived in Atlanta, Georgia for 12 years, and in all that time I never ventured north toward the mountains, despite being able to see them from my condo in
Exploring Dog-Friendly Vineyards Near Prince Frederick, Maryland
My Cork Hounds co-founder Jeremy, recently had friends in town for the weekend and we decided to spend some of the time exploring a dog-friendly vineyard in southern Maryland. So,
Changes to our Web and Mobile User Interfaces
You may have noticed a recent change that we made to our search results having to do with Ratings. If you are curious as to why, this blog is for
Migrating from Self-Managed Docker to ECS - EC2 Instances
I recently migrated our four containerized microservices from self managed Docker to AWS ECS. We are adding a lot more vineyards (the addition of California more than doubles the number
Virginia to Welcome Dogs (Back) into Tasting Rooms this Summer
Just this past January the Virginia state legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill to amend Virginia’s Law to officially allow dogs inside vineyard/winery tasting rooms (and breweries). The governor,
Design and Test Considerations for an AWS Serverless Architecture
This post is a companion blog to a recent post on Building a Hybrid Mobile Application with Adobe Phonegap that I published in January. We recently released our Mobile Application
Building a Hybrid Mobile Application with Adobe Phonegap
This blog has been a long time coming, as I've been working on the Cork Hounds iOS Mobile Application for the better part of 2017. I decided to use Phonegap
Exploring Dog-Friendly Vineyards Along Virginia and Maryland’s Eastern Shore
On a windy fall weekend, Cork Hounds cofounder, Jeremy, our pups, Greta and Bentley and I, headed out from the D.C. metro area to visit Cape Charles, Virginia. Cape
Coding an Amazon Alexa Skill in Java Using Dialog Directives
A couple of weeks ago, I decided to look into writing an Amazon Alexa Skill using the Java SDK. Alexa was an early entrant into the voice service market, allowing