Today I ran into an interesting continuous integration-type scenario. One of the skunkworks projects that I’m looking at internally yields frequent builds of MSI files for the same product. These MSI files are automatically generated (sometimes daily) by our source control system.
When Leon mentioned this Word-a-Day challenge to me, I was intrigued. He’d mentioned that something like this is a commitment that requires foresight and planning – hence the Day 0 topic – Prepare. I then did what I do whenever I have a task like this presented before me, I ask my wife.
A few days ago, I spoke before a small group of people about what I’d been doing with the Orion SDK. I mentioned that I had created a Spider-Orion script that I use to navigate to every page in my install. When I mentioned this script several people asked where it was published. The short answer –…
Monitoring Exchange servers is important because email is important, but it’s hard to do that when there aren’t any performance counters to reference. Let’s fix that.
Just a quick note. Saw Doctor Strange tonight with my wife, a friend, and two new friends. Oh, did I mention? Epic
Does anyone remember the outcry 10 years ago when Amazon revolutionized the retail book market? I certainly do. I used to love going to the mall and hitting up both (yes there were two) book stores looking for something new to read. In fact, it was there that I first found the Wheel of Time…
A friend of mine at work this week mentioned that he had to give a talk about taking time away from work. In previous companies, we used to refer to this “maintaining a healthy work/life balance.” This is the way I see it: Downtime makes work and down time saves life.
Everyone in the #vDM30in30 challenge seems to be spouting off about their home labs. Before I moved to Austin, I had a home lab. It was a half-rack on the floor with 3 servers and two mass storage arrays coupled with a wiring cabinet on the wall with a cable modem, firewall, router, and switch. …
Virtualization Manager 7 has just been released – Analyze the Past, Fix the Present, Prepare for the Future It’s pretty epic with some great new features, but I’m going to concentrate on the deployment of the virtual appliance (vApp) itself.
