A Reflection on Stan Lee

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As I write this, I’m currently in the hotel room preparing for a SolarWinds User Group in Frankfurt, Germany. I heard the news about Stan Lee’s passing at the dinner table surrounded by coworkers and friends when in London and got to thinking about how a single person can have such a large impact. I think that we all would like to feel like we can have a similar impact.

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Building my Orion Server [Scripting Edition] – Step 3.1

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Let’s forget all about my previous step 3. For the sake of argument, step 3 is dead, long live step 3.1!  Any script should be a living, breathing document which gets updated as needed.  In this case, it was needed.  Why would I burn such a good script to the ground?  Well, to be blunt, I’ve found a better way to do this, with better ultimate performance.

If you need a refresher on the previous steps, I have Step 1 for Hyper-V, Step 1 for VMware, and Step 2.

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Photo Organization via PowerShell and Tags (Part 2)

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In Part 1 of trying to tame my photos, I tried to wrangle my horribly organized photo library.  My organization skills were lacking, like many, when it comes to photos.  We take them, we import them or save them and then we… forget about them.  That’s a problem when I’m trying to handle large amounts of them (22.8 GB in 13,316 files) and organize them in ways that seem sensible.  To use this we leverage the metadata tags that describe the date and time the photo was taken.

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Photo Organization via PowerShell and Tags (Part 1)

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No one could ever accuse me of being a shutterbug.  I’m more of a casual photographer and much most of that was from mobile devices.  But that’s not the be-all-end-all.  I’ve also got scores of scans of old photographs, screenshots, and a bunch of other graphics that have accumulated over the years.  Thankfully modern mobile devices tag photos with a plethora of information.  Now it’s just a matter of getting to that information.  These tags can help you organize your data so you don’t run into my problems.

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Rapid Build for Testing Containers

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Containers are everywhere and I’m, personally, behind the times.  I’d like to think that I’ve kept up with new technology trends, but on containers I was caught napping.  So now it’s time to really get cracking and for that I need to have a playground.  There are several online options available, but I’m cheap, so … Read more