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Too Many Choices: How to Manage Your Docker Clusters

Posted on May 10, 2017 by David Clinton

There are all kinds of ways to play the Docker game and, obviously, no one of them is going to be right for every use case. So what I’m going to do here is give you a brief functional overview… Continue Reading →

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Ignore Your Inodes at Your Own Peril!

Posted on October 26, 2016 by David Clinton

Who knew that ignoring the status of your inodes could bring down your Linux server? I can’t say the possibility crossed my mind all that often. Until, that is, ignoring the status of my inodes actually brought down my server.… Continue Reading →

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Why Is so Much Enterprise Documentation so Awful?

Posted on June 28, 2016 by David Clinton

I spend a very large portion of my professional workday reading through technology documentation. Perhaps “reading through” isn’t quite the right way to describe it. At this point, it’s more like quickly scanning menus, FAQs, and paragraph headings for clues to… Continue Reading →

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How do you Learn New Technologies?

Posted on April 20, 2016 by David Clinton

I can’t prove this, but I suspect that most IT and developer types tend to work under pressure. Those folks are either in the middle of a big project with a looming deadline (or a recent catastrophic crash), or they’re… Continue Reading →

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Microsoft and Linux Bash: Window’s interesting new doorway

Posted on April 5, 2016 by David Clinton

Who saw that one coming? Last week’s announcement from Microsoft that Windows 10 is now able to run the Linux Bash interpreter shell natively within a virtualized image of Ubuntu was certainly a shocker. This, after all, is the same… Continue Reading →

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Technology books: short is the new long

Posted on March 18, 2016 by David Clinton

You think you’ve got a lot to read for your work? A client who’s been having latency trouble with their e-commerce server sent me a database log file yesterday that contained more than 1.3 million lines of text. Now as… Continue Reading →

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Three great sandboxing tools for learning IT skills

Posted on February 29, 2016 by David Clinton

The quickest way to learn some unfamiliar software technology is to dive right in and try it out. There will always be plenty of time to read the “Getting Started” page later. But since installing new software usually involves messing… Continue Reading →

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Citizen Developers: where should they (and their tools) fit into the IT cycle?

Posted on February 14, 2016 by David Clinton
citizen developer low coding

How can you know that you’re doing something the best way if you haven’t even seen all the best tools available on the market? When it comes to “citizen developers,” the how, why, and what are obvious: it’s the when… Continue Reading →

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Tech training: using Internet search to get what you need

Posted on February 4, 2016 by David Clinton
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You’re really motivated this time. No, pumped is a better word. And you’re absolutely ready to invest some significant time and energy into reaching your learning goals. There are all kinds of reasons why you just have to master “that”… Continue Reading →

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Linux training: it’s 2016 and you’re going to use a BOOK to teach yourself stuff?

Posted on January 29, 2016 by David Clinton
LPIC Linux Certification

You mean they’re still publishing books? And on Linux administration of all things? When you consider just how inefficient books are at delivering knowledge when compared to digital networks, and when you consider just how many first rate and freely… Continue Reading →

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