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Oct
22ndHello Again : My life up to this point
This post is a catch-up for all the stuff I should have written about but didn’t in the last few weeks. For those that don’t know, I recently moved from EMC over to VMware into a brand new kind of role. Right now I am caught in the trifecta of learning a new company, meeting new teams, and trying to help bootstrap my own with recruiting and design work. Which results in my blog getting a lack of attention. But, all that is going to change. My new mission with this blog is to just start dumping from my brain a combination of what I am playing with and what I have discovered along the way. I am working on tools and special things for the cloud community at large. But these will take a bit of time to see the light of day. So my new post will be titled: “Nick’s Distractions” – and will be a summary of mildly interesting topics that distracted me somehow during my week. So here is my first catch-up: Project Razor: Razor has exploded way bigger than I expected. Funny how solving personal problems can result in public acceptance. The current forks are over 50+ and watchers are almost 200 on the github repo(https://github.com/puppetlabs/Razor). This is just awesome, as I had always envisioned Razor as being truly powerful when it becomes a part of an open community that contributes 99.99% of the code and design. Now for the updates: 1. I was lucky [...]
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Mar
1stUBERLinkedTwit : Chambers special
So my buddy posted the following tweet today: And since I had some calls today I decided to kick off a project to do just that. So here is a simple github link for UBERLinkedTwit: Basically a command line ruby script which using the LinkedIn gem to auth, pull, and grab twitter ID’s for your connections. I haven’t rigged it up to auto-follow using the Twitter gem yet. But that is pretty easy using the Twitter gem examples. Hit the github project, get LinkedIn developer keys, read the README, and have fun. Free free to extend and I will pull into main project. .nick
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Feb
11thManic Innovation Challenge(Feb) : UBER Twitter Stats
UPDATE : As of last week UBER Twitter Stats are offline. The account used for replying to requests was tagged as spam and blocked. I don’t plan on moving to a new account. Instead I am going to work on a replacement which should rock even more. Continuing my pursuit of the Manic Innovation Challenge I am proud to release my newest *dumb* idea: UBER Twitter Stats! NEW UPDATE – Based on some tips (thanks: Brian Katz @bmkatz) some of the details haved changed below to make UBER Twitter Stats work a little easier. The same old command style still works. But the newer one is much easier. Written in 100% Ruby and running in the cloud, UBER Twitter allows you to ask me (technically my cloud-like proxy @myubertwit) for interesting recent stats about your Twitter account. It is really quite simple. Send a tweet to my app account (@myubertwit) with the text: “<command>”. With the command being one of the following: My Word Count – Will reply with the top 20 words you used recently. This automatically strips out very common words. Shortcut: ‘mwc’ Mention Word Count – This will reply with the same as the above but for tweets that mention or are to you. Shortct: ‘mmwc’ Who I Mention – This will list the top 20 people you talk to or mention in your recent tweets. Shortcut: ‘wim’ Who Mentions Me – This will reply back with the top 20 people who have mentioned you the most lately. [...]
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Sep
17thvArmy Twitter Update : List O’ Geek
Back in the spring of this year I created a twitter list on TweepML.com of vSpecialists on Twitter. Today I have updated that list. So if you are a customer, analyst, or a competitor follow Chad’s army here: vArmy on Twiter .nick
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Mar
12thThe vArmy on Twitter : EMC vSpecialistsBased off an internal email I decided to follow in Eric Siebert’s footsteps (though I am not on that list yet *poke*) and create a list of the EMC vSpecialists that are on Twitter. This list will be expanding but for now includes some pretty amazing people. I would highly recommend following this sharp group.
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Feb
15thvSphere Mini Monitor : Now With More Cowbell!
The purpose of the vSphere Mini Monitor is to provide a simple extension of the vSphere Web SDK to allow for real-time alerting of important user-based events on your vCenter server. It is not meant to replace a holistic monitoring platform. I wrote it to be secure, multithreaded, and lightweight. It is simply a cool geeky tool.
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