Category Archives: /dev/random
Gitlab Upgrade: Postmortem
This is an article I drafted and forgot about. It dates from January 2016 This week at work we had an upgrade fiasco. If we want to lay some blame out there, I’ll take 50% for inadequate testing procedures, and … Continue reading
A Matter of Perspective
Over the last two weeks, I saw two talks. One was from RMS, yes THE Richard Stallman. The other was a panel of industry professionals on Cloud Computing, with representatives from Universities, Google, Microsoft and Amazon. I found Stallman’s talk … Continue reading
Computer Scientists — The Next Generation
I’ve just had the privilege of teaching an Intro to Computer Science class for the last two Semesters at the University where I work. The class covered basic first semester programming topics, such as functions, loops, conditionals, arrays and hash … Continue reading
Sometimes the project finds you…(part 1)
I have been, for years, an unabashed Slashdot.org fanboy. I’ve been accused of being a Slashdot apologist by friends who feel that Slashdot hasn’t been relevant for 10 years. To them, I say, its relevant to me and one of … Continue reading
Hello world!
Since this in the invocation of a new WordPress site, I thought I’d leave the Hello World title…at least until I get a real post up about stuff and finish getting the site laid out and what not. Is it … Continue reading