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Jun
5thQuick Videos : Razor Webinar & MoreThis is just a quick post with some videos relevant to the Razor project. First off is the Puppet Webinar around Razor with live demo and Q & A. Puppet Razor Webinar Next is a couple videos generated using Gource to show the work on both the Razor project and the Razor Microkernel project. Just for fun but pretty cool stuff: .nick
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Jan
10thBreaking 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 up a Mac Book Air and from the minute I started using it, fell in love with everything about it. Because of this switch I have come to learn the things that the Mac (and Lion) do really well with some things while Windows does better with others. For almost all of my UBER projects I use my beefy Windows workstation running VMware Workstation to setup my lab/dev environments. But, recently I started trying to move over to my Mac and using VMware Fusion to build lab virtual machines for developing. And to my surprise I found that things in the Fusion world aren’t quite the same as for Workstation. Namely, the networking options are rather limited. By default you only get the choices of three networks 1) DHCP w/ NAT 2) DHCP and 3) Bridging to a physical interface. For me that meant that I couldn’t get a network without DHCP (important if you are testing it) or create multiple isolated networks like I could on Workstation. So I went digging and found that at one point someone has written some slick scripts to allow for custom multi-network setup but it stopped being updated [...]
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May
31stVPLEX Geo / GoogleMaps Mashup : Higher Quality VideoMy previous post showing the VPLEX Geo / GoogleMaps mashup was an early version and low quality. I created this one to better show the UI and recorded it at 60FPS using my HD camera. thanks, .nick
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May
15thEMC World 2011 : AKA the last 3 months of my life
This post will cover so much of the last few months of my life that I don’t even know where to start. I am sitting here in the Las Vegas airport trying to remember all the details of how I got to this spot. It really started at the beginning of March when I moved to the vSpecialist Technical Enablement team. The TE team is tasked with arming the front-line vSpec with information, tools, messaging, and more to do their jobs more effectively. Another aspect of the TE team is they usually provide many of the keynote and session demos for the conference and partner events like EMC World or VMworld. Also, the TE guys have been running the EMC Hands On Labs for over a year now at events across the US. Within a week after joining I had a discussion with my boss, Chris Horn, about the how the existing Hands On Labs (which he pioneered and maintained) could be improved and expanded for EMC World. The goal was to do something much more like the experience the VMworld labs provide. Chris had been talking with the EMC Demo Cloud team about using cloud-hosted labs they could provide to the users in Las Vegas at EMC World. After a few long conversations I committed to write the lab automation that would take a session in the Demo Cloud and automate it straight to a user at a desk across the country. Not a small feat and honestly I [...]
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Mar
18thExcited about EMCWorld 2011? : Show it off
I was working on something completely different when I realized some of the code/graphics I had put together would look quite cool as a screensaver. So if you are a fan of the cloud, a fan of EMC, or even just a fan of slick multi-monitor screensavers; give my new EMCWorld 2011 screensaver a shot. Couple of details: It is hardware accelerated. I can’t guarantee the frame rate on weaker graphics chips. All mine are beefy. It is multi-monitor capable. Looks great on my 3 monitors. Works is all the resolutions I could try. You can have different resolutions on different monitors also. Each monitor gets a different randomized effect which looks quite cool. Reminds you every once in a while about EMCWorld 2011 being the place where Big Data and Cloud are going to meet. I don’t have a Mac version yet and probably won’t since I don’t own a Mac (I know, my team shuns me for this…) Video: EMCWorld 2011 Screensaverfrom Nicholas Weaver on Vimeo. And the download: EMCWorld 2011 UBER Screensaver Installation Instructions: Download Unzip Right click as an Administrator and click ‘Install’ Open up Screensaver settings and select ‘EMCWorld 2011’ Disclaimer: This screensaver is neither endorsed nor supported by anyone at EMC. It is solely the product of me, an overactive and slightly strange geek. Comments rock my world. Thanks .nick
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Feb
22ndBeing a vSpec : One year under the beltToday is the one year anniversary of joining EMC as a vSpecialist. Kind of feels like I just got here and compared to some of the vets, I have. Still I think back to my first post on moving to the vendor side of things (Change is good : Fear & Atmosphere) and I am amazed at everything that has happened to me since then. As I pointed out back in that blog post. My goal was to surround myself by people that would challenge me in new areas. That has definitely been the case this year and is still a primary motivator for me. I can also say this job has used a broader set of my skills than any other. I decided to throw together a video of random pictures from the last year as a vSpecialist. Here is my year as a vSpec: My Year as a EMC vSpecialist from Nicholas Weaver on Vimeo. I am really looking forward to the rest of 2011 and where my career takes me at EMC. Guess that big step in February of 2010 ended up being a good one after all. .nick
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