The Traveler’s Guide to the iPad

October 10, 2010

When the iPad came out I wasn’t convinced that I wanted/needed one but as the days progressed and my co-worker flashed his cool new toy around, I decided to buy a 64GB Wi-fi model. After nearly five months, I am not advocating it as a laptop replacement or the must have gadget for everyone but [...]

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Linuxcon Presentation – Open Source Toolchains for Cloud Computing

August 12, 2010

Here are my slides from today’s talk at LinuxCon on “Open Source Toolchains for Cloud Computing“. The talk focused on what open source tools could be used to create automation for managing cloud computing. I really enjoyed giving the talk and the discussion afterward, it seems that the reality among attendees was that they did [...]

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DIY iPad Stylus

August 2, 2010

I like my iPad for traveling as it gives me easy access to read and reply to email. However, I don’t like to type on it the same way I would on a regular keyboard, I prefer to use a stylus to hunt and peck rather than my fingers. I also like to draw and [...]

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Open Source Toolchains for Sysadmins

July 30, 2010

In celebration of System Administrator Appreciation Day I published a story at Linux.com called Open Source Toolchains for Systems Administrators, here is an excerpt: “Software developers are very familiar with toolchains, series of programs where the output of one program forms the input for the next. A free software example would be using the GNU [...]

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Open Source Tool Chains for Cloud Computing

July 21, 2010

Here are my slides from today’s talk at today’s OSCON, Open Source Tool Chains for Cloud Computing presented with John Willis (VP of Services at Opscode) and Alex Honor (Founder of DTO Solutions and Leader of the Control Tier Project).  The idea we hoped to convey is that integration between open source tools can help [...]

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