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Superbowl Ad Bingo for either High IQ or Matrix Challenged

If you, like me, are going to a party to observe expensive ads interrupted by costumed men line dancing aggressively then you may enjoy the bingo card generator that I put together. This spreadsheet...

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Cloud Dev Laptop

This post is in response to multiple requests I’ve gotten from people outside of Dell.  My apologies if it is too commercial.  I work for Dell  and we make hot laptops AND clouds. When you’re building...

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Join in Blog Action Day on 10/15

You’ll have to wait for the reveal on 10/15 but I wanted to throw out the link for blog action day and encourage fellow bloggers to participate in the event. I participated in this event while I...

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Open Source is The Power of We (Blog Action Day)

This post is part of a world wide “blog action day” where thousands of bloggers post their unique insights about a single theme. For 2012, it’s the “power of we is as a celebration of people working...

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My Dilemma with Folsom – why I want to jump to G

These views are my own.  Based on 1×1 discussions I’ve had in the OpenStack community, I am not alone. If you’ve read my blog then you know I am a vocal and active supporter of OpenStack who is seeking...

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The Atlantic magazine explains why Lean process rocks (and saves companies $$)

I’m certain that the Atlantic‘s Charles Fishman was not thinking software and DevOps when he wrote the excellent article about “The Insourcing Boom.”  However, I strongly recommend reading this report...

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Installing SSD + Windows8 = Blank Primary Monitor (fixable!)

I could not find the solution to this easily, so I’m leaving a breadcrumb trail here… I did not keep the links so I cannot give proper attribution but will try to pay it forward. Short version: Try...

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“Stack Shop” cover of Macklemore’s Thrift Shop

Sometimes a meme glitters too strongly for me to resist getting pulled in… that happened to great effect that just before the OpenStack Havana summit. When my code-addled mind kept swapping “poppin’...

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Parable of Lions and Elephants

There was once a family with two children: Barney and Bailum.  Both wanted wanted to start a circus and did exactly that when they came into their inheritance.  Being highly competitive, they each...

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my lean & open source reading list – recommendations welcome!

I think it’s worth pulling together a list of essential books that I think should be required reading for people on Lean & open source teams (like mine): Basis for the team values that we...

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Update a pull request from git command line

Sometimes we just need to feed the SEO gods… in this case, I could not find the simple git command line to update a pull request that I had in flight. I was looking for the following: git push...

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Doing is Doing – my 10 open source principles

Open source projects’ greatest asset is their culture and FOSS practitioners need to deliberately build and expand it. To me, culture is not soft or vague.  Culture is something specific and actionable...

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Why I’m learning open source best practice from Middle School Students

Engineering in open source projects is a different skillset than most of us have ever been trained for; happily, there is a rising cohort of engineers and scientists who have been learning to work in...

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DevOps for Non-Profits?! The Miracle Foundation does IRL Puppies v. Cattle

In what’s become an annual tradition, I’m taking a post to think about the intersection of Cloud and Non-profits using my better-half’s employer, The Miracle Foundation, as my inspiration (and to help...

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Parable of Kitten Taming

It’s time to return to story of Barney and Bailum.  Last year, I wrote about their separate paths through the circus business: Bailum succeeding with a lean model and Barney failing with a “go big”...

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Just for fun, putting themes to OpenStack Conferences

I’ve been to every OpenStack summit and, in retrospect, each one has a different theme.  I see these as community themes beyond the releases train that cover how the OpenStack ecosystem has changed....

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Back of the Napkin to Presentation in 30 seconds

I wanted to share a handy new process for creating presentations that I’ve been using lately that involves using cocktail napkins, smart phones and Google presentations. Here’s the Process: sketch an...

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7 Open Source lessons from your English Composition class

We often act as if coding, and especially open source coding, is a unique activity and that’s hubris.   Most human activities follow common social patterns that should inform how we organize open...

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Cloud Culture: Online Games, the real job training for Digital Natives...

Translation: Why do Digital Natives value collaboration over authority? This post is #5 in an collaborative eight part series by Brad Szollose and I about how culture shapes technology. Before we...

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Cloud Culture: Level up – You win the game by failing successfully...

Translation: Learn by playing, fail fast, and embrace risk. This post is #6 in an collaborative eight part series by Brad Szollose and I about how culture shapes technology. Digital Natives have been...

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