I have recently been distracted by a new ‘hobby’, investing (I scare quote hobby because, although it’s great fun, interesting, and not my main job, it also involves real money—and significantly MY real money—so I take it perhaps slightly more seriously than a casual hobby). Anyway, I decided to blog about investing; what I learned, the [...]

Bet that got your attention. And I’m serious. In this post I am going to tell you why sharing code is a bad idea. I am also going to tell you that you should share the functionality of your code. That is an excellent idea. What I mean when I say ‘don’t share your code’ [...]

In writing it is important to maintain a careful record of your citations. It can be tough, especially as you dash around the Internet gathering information, to keep track of where you get each idea or piece of text. It is, however, vital that you do so in order to properly cite your sources, giving [...]

One of the frustrations I have with configuration management training and literature is the focus on facts. Too often training courses, books, and websites lay out the facts of configuration management. The dry details about what configuration management ‘should be’. Worse still, people often want a rote solution; ‘Teach me the steps for X’. This [...]