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Book review Pulling Strings With Puppet
The devops movement (if you haven't seen Ben Rockwood's presentation on devops you should go watch it now) has been gaining steam over the past few years, and the movement has led to a lot of organizations adopting automation solutions like CFEngine, Chef or Puppet. I've had great success with puppet so far, and my fellow blogging partner Mike has had similar success with CFEngine. Maybe Mike will come out of hibernation and give everyone an update on the cool things he's done with it. :) When I first started using Puppet I purchased a copy of James Turnbull's Pulling Strings with Puppet…
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I was having lunch with a friend last week and we caught up on tons of stuff. Both of us are doing a lot of work with VMWare, storage, Linux and interestingly enough we are both trying to learn about Windows Server 2008. As we were chatting my buddy asked me what I thought the best ten technology books of all time were. I immediately said the entire Richard Stevens collection, but then started to think which other books have had the biggest impact on my career…
$ read more →Growing your own lettuce indoors with an Aerogarden
I've hopped on the health train over the past six months, and have been trying to integrate more fruits and vegetables into my diet. This all came about after I watched the Food Inc. documentary (available from Netflix and Amazon's streaming services) and reflected on what I eat. The Food Inc…
$ read more →A real world approach to learning new Operating Systems
New Operating Systems don't pop into existence every day, but there are a slew of them out there. This includes various versions of Windows, BSD OSs, a number of Linux distributions, Solaris, AIX, Plan 9 as well as several others. As a technology geek I'm always looking to learning something new, and I recently got the opportunity to expand my Operating System knowledge. I'm now spending a good bit of my time learning everything there is to know about IBM's AIX…
$ read more →How to expand you technical book library on the cheap
I recently got the opportunity to start supporting a number of AIX systems, and being an AIX newbie the first thing I did was ask myself how can I learn everything there is to know about AIX (more to come on this topic tomorrow)? Being a readaholic, I decided to wander over to Amazon to see which AIX books were available. After 10 minutes of searching and reading reviews, I ended up snagging a copy of AIX 5L Administration for $5. That $5 also included shipping…
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