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Our words matter and its time for a change
This year presented humanity with challenges beyond our wildest imagination from a pandemic to a revived civil rights movement. The current protests are bringing a spotlight to bear on many traditions, monuments, and terminology that reinforces the terms white with...
Working Remotely in a Pandemic
Seattle is the epicenter of the U.S. novel coronavirus pandemic, and we are about two weeks ahead of the country in response and reaction to the contagion. Seattle is known for being a city of introverts, and the term Seattle Freeze represents our social interactions,...
Learning Node.js
Node.js has interested me for the past year, but with the program that I've been running for the past nine months I haven't had a lot of time to invest in learning anything, let alone a new language and thought pattern. I'm excited that I'm finally taking the time to...
The Cliff
Over the past seven months, I've had the opportunity to work on a security and compliance project that is truly once in a career. The project was of a scale that I have never worked on with a core program team over twelve people and an execution team that numbered in...
Chef NTPD Cookbook Released
Automation has always been a passion of mine. I have worked with Microsoft's Systems Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) in the past for Windows, but over the past few years I've wanted a cross-platform configuration tool. My search led me to Chef, and finally within...
Agile Inceptions for Projects
Agile methodology has been changing the technology industry for the past decade, and over the past few years I've been applying more and more agile structures and principles to infrastructure, security and project management. The last several projects I've been...
Change is a Constant, Embrace It
The quote above is one of my favorites and...
My Geek Code
When I first started out in IT, I was lucky enough to find Wil Wheaton's original site that contained a BBS called "Teh Soapbox". This site lead me to a little known Geek Code standard. Yes the standard is out of date, but seriously its the Geek Code! If you don't...
Formatting Strings in Powershell
Formatting strings in PowerShell is easy, just include the variable inside the string and it does it automatically, right? What about when you are using variable values (i.e. $ds.count)? Then you have to write an ugly line of code like: $string = "There are " +...