I'm working on a personal finance project codenamed FinOpsDev (rebranding suggestions welcome), aiming to reduce drudgery to near zero with automation, and exploit the increased velocity to run automated tasks more often, etc. Like DevOps for your checkbook. Or like Continous Accounting.
As a base, I'm using GNUCash ...
read moreLinuxconf 2014 wrapped up last week, and the videos are already online!
I didn't get a chance to review all the video, but here's some of the sessions I thought were interesting:
Rusty Russel discusses virtIO standardization. I thought I knew what virtIO was but his initial explaination ...
read more3 years ago, Nokia released an intriguing option into the smartphone market. The N900 was a true Linux phone, and a simple, freely available app was all you needed to get root access to your hardware. The N900 was not a massive hit with carriers, and not a massive hit ...
read moreRecovered from the post-con crash a while ago, so it's time to write up some thoughts. Last week I attended PuppetConf with my coworkers at the OSL. The OSL attended PuppetConf primarily as a pre-deployment information gathering exercise. We want to avoid common pitfalls, and be able to plan ...
read moreThe following is an update to a post originally made to ServerFault in 2009.
System administration is more than clicking Next, cutting your fingers on cagenuts, and 3am pager alerts. Sysadmins can borrow many of the same skills and tools that programmers use daily to make themselves more productive, and ...
read moreFriday marked the end of Open Source Bridge. Just about the best introduction to Portland culture as you can find. Vegan lunches, Voodoo Donut catering, lunch truck friday, and rock and roll pipe organists in the Unitarian's sanctuary.
The keynotes were pretty cool. I'd seen Fenwick's presentation ...
read moreMarch has been a month of great change for K-State. Frank Martin left for the east coast, in a departure you might have heard about at the water cooler. What you probably didn't hear, is that I left in the opposite direction for a new position with the Open ...
read moreIn January I published five goals:
Arguably I accomplished 4 of them. Obviously this isn't 5 ...
read moreOnce again, it's demonstrated that sitting around a table drafting policy fails the common sense test. Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Sam Houson State University decided to ask all members of their social media portal for username and passwords. Their published policy still does. My favorite part:
read moreDo ...