January 27, 2012

Top Blog Voting : Cast Your Vote

Once again the time has come in the year when vSphere-land.com does their voting for Top VMware/Virtualization… [more]

Top Blog Voting : Cast Your Vote Top Blog Voting : Cast Your Vote

Breaking new ground : An UBER Tool for the Mac

A few months ago I bought my first Mac. I had been a hardcore Windows workstation kind of guy. And being… [more]

Breaking new ground : An UBER Tool for the Mac Breaking new ground : An UBER Tool for the Mac

IT, Silos, Cloud, & You : What do you want to be when Cloud grows up?

Senior Developers, Network Admins, Virtualization Architect, Security folks, and more - in the world… [more]

IT, Silos, Cloud, & You : What do you want to be when Cloud grows up? IT, Silos, Cloud, & You : What do you want to be when Cloud grows up?

Now for something completely different : Ubuntu 11.10, KVM, & VLAN trunking

Sometimes the path to learn something means using very different tools along the way. In my case, I have… [more]

Now for something completely different : Ubuntu 11.10, KVM, & VLAN trunking Now for something completely different : Ubuntu 11.10, KVM, & VLAN trunking

Straighten up with a new UBER tool : Presenting UBERAlign

Presenting UBERAlign, a tool for VMware Virtual Machine alignment and Space Reclamation

Straighten up with a new UBER tool : Presenting UBERAlign Straighten up with a new UBER tool : Presenting UBERAlign
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Top Blog Voting : Cast Your Vote

Once again the time has come in the year when vSphere-land.com does their voting for Top VMware/Virtualization blogs. I am a firm believer in voting for who you love so head over and take the quick couple minutes to choice your favorites. If something I have done on Nickapedia.com has been cool, useful, or inspiring [...]

Quick Update : UNF version 1.701

I got some feedback that some users running Snow Leopard were crashing every time they started UNF. Turns out there was a method being used on a Cocoa control that required changes made in the 10.7 SDK. I rewrote the function to not need the method and have released a new version (version 1 build [...]

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Breaking new ground : An UBER Tool for the Mac

A few months ago I bought my first Mac. I had been a hardcore Windows workstation kind of guy. And being a C# coder in the late hours of the night it was all I needed. But, after seeing my former teammates (vSpecs) using their sexy Mac Books I finally made the switch. I picked [...]

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The next iteration : What I learned & what you can expect

Honestly I think the only reason I started this blog what as a holding spot for crazy things I wrote/built in my spare time. I never thought people would actually pay attention at first. Now I look back and realize that while I have stayed pretty true to that original course in some aspects, things [...]

The late recap post : AKA Top 7 things I learned in 2011

2011 was a banner year for me in accomplishing great things and learning new lessons. To recap my 2011 I thought I would share:    Top 7 Things I Learned in 2011   1. I must be doing something right This is the obligatory stats part of my list. Comparing 2011 to 2010 I doubled [...]

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Proving a another guy’s point : MacBook Air & Node.js as a Webserver

Ok, this is a real quick example of someone else’s idea. Namely Christofer Hoff of Juniper (infamous blog & twitter account) who in response to my tweet about my MacBook and a webserver (I am a Mac-newbie). Suggested I try using Node.js. At first I was a little taken back. I think @Beaker thought I [...]

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IT, Silos, Cloud, & You : What do you want to be when Cloud grows up?

Senior Developers, Network Admins, Virtualization Architect, Security folks, and more – in the world of skilled labor in IT there sometimes seem to be more common boxes we like to place people in than most other fields. These boxes exist partly due to the fact that the CFO/HR/recruiting folks need nicely written job descriptions to [...]

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Now for something completely different : Ubuntu 11.10, KVM, & VLAN trunking

Sometimes the path to learn something means using very different tools along the way. In my case, I have been learning more on the developing virtual network world along with some of the new DevOps toolsets popping up. As part of this I have started using KVM as a hypervisor on an Ubuntu 11.10 platform [...]