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View ArticleReview: Instant Puppet 3
Instant Puppet 3 by Jo Rhett is 50 pages long and a delight to read. The ebook is available for $9.99 from Packt (pronounced "packed") at http://www.packtpub.com/puppet-3-starter/book For those of you...
View ArticleToday in history: Letter from a Birmingham Jail
50 years ago today Martin Luther King, Jr published "Letter from a Birmingham Jail". It is a beautiful, moving, letter. Everyone should take a moment to read it. (Search for a copy of the letter online...
View ArticleBalancing Todos and Tickets
A reader asked me: What’s your opinion on merging “to-do” lists with issue trackers in The Cycle? I have a pile of To Do items which aren’t properly “issues”, and a pile of issues. I don’t want to...
View ArticleLOPSA-East is less than a week away!
If you haven't signed up for LOPSA-East, it is this coming Friday and Saturday, May 3-4, 2013 in New Brunswick, NJ. I've finally finished my slides for my "Evil Genius 101" class. I'm very excited...
View ArticleTwo questions for LOPSA Board Candidates
The slate of candidates for LOPSA board is up. At "candidate night" here are the questions I'll be asking: Question 1: "I'd like to know about your experience with community-based projects. Please tell...
View ArticleWomen in Science and Engineering (WISE) Computing Skills Boot Camp
https://blog.mozilla.org/it/2013/04/30/women-in-science-and-engineering-wise-computing-skills-boot-camp/ Software Carpentry is running a 2-day software skills boot camp in Boston, June 24-25th 2013,...
View ArticleWhy Google Glass is so important
Every tech blog, news site, magazine and newspaper is writing about Google Glass. Half are saying good things half are saying bad things. But there's one thing they all agree on: Mentioning Google...
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"DRM-free" scares the s*** out of me
Today is the International Day Against DRM. As an author, and one that is currently living on unemployment insurance payments, DRM-free scares the shit out of me. Every book I've ever published has...
View ArticleZeno's Interview Question
I hope to teach a "how to interview" class at an upcoming conference. Here's one of the points I'll be making. How can one interview question help me understand what the candiate does and doesn't know...
View ArticleWAN Accellerators
What is your opinion of WAN Accelerators? Please post to the comments section. I haven't used or configured a WAN Accelerator but from the reading I've done so far it seems that the older the protocol...
View ArticleI feel pain when articles get inaccurate titles
You may have read the Popular Science article: Thieves Stole $45 Million From ATMs Because The U.S. Uses Absurd 40-Year-Old Technology Let me quote: So why is the US so far behind? Infrastructure is a...
View ArticleTodoPro available for Android (beta)
The todo list program that I use on my iPhone is now available on Android. It is a beta. I've been using the earlier betas on my Android tablet and it is looking very good. Previously I hadn't found...
View ArticleFirst Google Ganeti Conference: GanetiCon 2013
Synnefo has announced the first Google Ganeti Conference: GanetiCon 2013. They will be co-organizers. The announcement was first made on the Synnefo blog. The conference will take place between 3-5...
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Starting my next chapter
Last week I started my new job at StackExchange.com. You may know SE as the company that runs great Q&A websites like ServerFault.com and StackOverflow.com plus their amazing job site Careers 2.0....
View ArticleThe possibility of cross-site configuration management
Steve Murawski from the ServerFault blog has some interesting notes about the prospect of a single configuration management system that works across Linux and Windows and other things too.
View ArticleNew article in "login magazine": Ganeti: Cluster Virtualization Manager
The June issue of ";login: Magazine" (the Usenix magazine) is out and it includes a piece I contributed to: Ganeti: Cluster Virtualization Manager by Guido Trotter and Tom Limoncelli If you are a...
View ArticleVelocity 2013 in Santa Clara
I'll be attending the Velocity conference next week. If you see me please say "hi"!
View ArticleEvi Nemeth potentially lost at sea
2013-06-28 Update: NZ search and rescue folks haven't given up though a new search today was unsuccessful. It is with a heavy heart that I pass on this information. There is a report that the boat Evi...
View ArticleEvi Nemeth update: stay optimistic
Evi Nemeth's son is still optimistic and so am I. Here's what I glean from this report on 3NewsNZ: The last txt message from Evi wasn't the last txt message. Another txt was sent but not received. The...
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