LISA Conversations Episode 7: Kris Buytaert on "DevOps: The past and future...
Episode 7 of LISA Conversations is Kris Buytaert, who presented DevOps: The past and future are here. It's just not evenly distributed (yet) at LISA '11. Watch the Episode here: Usenix LISA Episode #7...
View ArticleNext on LISA Conversations: Caskey Dickson on "Why Your Manager LOVES...
Our next guest will be Caskey Dickson. We'll be discussing his talk from LISA '15 titled Why Your Manager LOVES Technical Debt and What to Do About It. Watch live! We'll be recording the episode on...
View ArticleMeaningless Anti-Virus Software Features Are Profitable
Tavis Ormandy, Google security expert, is getting press for criticizing Meaningless Antivirus Excellence Awards. This is a good opportunity to mention some thoughts I've had about anti-malware...
View ArticleMaintain Separate GitHub accounts
Someone recently commented that with Github it is "a pain if you want to have a work and personal identity." It is? I've had separate work and personal Github accounts for years. I thought everyone...
View ArticleWasting one million dollars
"Done" means "launched". It isn't "done" until it is launched. It annoys me to hear people say a project is "done... now I just have to launch it". It isn't done if it isn't in production. There are a...
View ArticleReminder: Do your homework for next week's LISA Conversations: Caskey Dickson...
This weekend is a good time to watch the video we'll be discussing on the next episode of LISA conversations: Caskey Dickson's talk from LISA '15 titled Why Your Manager LOVES Technical Debt and What...
View ArticleWatch us live today! LISA Conversations: Caskey Dickson on "Why Your Manager...
Today (Tuesday, March 29, 2016) we'll be recording episode #8 of LISA Conversations. Join the Google Hangout and submit questions live via this link. Our guest will be Caskey Dickson. We'll be...
View ArticleEpidemic of Vacation Shaming Spreads Across America
This HuffPo article is worth reading: According to an Ernst & Young internal study, for "each additional 10 hours of vacation employees took, their year-end performance ratings improved 8 percent,...
View ArticleArcher starts tonight! (and other important TV news)
The new season of Archer starts tonight!! (Mar 31, 2016) at 10pm! The Powerpuff Girls 2016 Reboot starts on April 4th. Set your DVRs now! The Detour starts on April 11. I have high hopes for this show....
View Article"How SysAdmins Devalue Themselves" now in CACM
CACM reprinted my article in the April edition. They don't usually publish April Fools articles, but I'll consider this the appropriate place for this article. If you subscribe to CACM, you can read...
View ArticleTake the 2016 State of DevOps Survey
Whether or not you are in a DevOps environment, please take this survey. The data is useful for helping improve the situation for system administrators of all kinds....
View ArticleSRE is what DevOps wants to be when it grows up
There are two things you can do if you want to understand the future of system administration. First, if you want to see what DevOps will be like 5-10 years out, you can read the amazing new book,...
View ArticleVelocity Santa Clara early price ends May 12
Velocity Santa Clara is June 20-23, 2016. Sadly I can't attend this year due to a pre-existing commitment. However you can still register. Do it before the early discount evaporates!
View ArticleLISA Conversations Episode 8: Caskey Dickson on "Why Your Manager LOVES...
Episode 8 of LISA Conversations is Caskey Dickson, who presented Why Your Manager LOVES Technical Debt and What to Do About It at LISA '15. Watch the Episode here: LISA Conversations Episode #8 with...
View ArticleNext on LISA Conversations: kc claffy on "Named Data Networking"
Our next guest will be kc claffy. We'll be discussing her talk from LISA '15 titled Named Data Networking. Watch live! We'll be recording the episode on Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 3:30-4:30 p.m....
View ArticleEasily read UTF16-encoded files from Go
A program I wrote that worked for quite some time started failing. It turns out someone tried to use it to process a file with text encoded as UTF16. The file came from a Windows system and,...
View ArticleCU-Boulder remembers Evi Nemeth, April 26, 2016
CU-Boulder will be hosting an event on April 26, 2016, to celebrate the life of Evi Nemeth who passed away three years ago. You may remember Evi from her many books on system administration, her...
View ArticleServer Hardware Support Rant
[This is a rant. Take it with a grain of salt.] You know what's great about "the cloud"? I don't have you deal with [insert server vendor's name] support process that is so complex and broken that it...
View ArticleReminder: Do your homework for next week's LISA Conversations: kc claffy on...
This weekend is a good time to watch the video we'll be discussing on the next episode of LISA conversations: kc claffy's talk from LISA '15 titled Named Data Networking. Homework: Watch her talk ahead...
View ArticleHave you downloaded the March/April issue of acmqueue yet?
The March/April issue of acmqueue - the magazine written for and by software engineers that leaves no corner of the development world unturned - is now available for download. This issue contains a...
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