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Category Archives: Geekery
The walled garden is the future of computing.
These days it seems like almost everybody (at least almost everybody in the technology world) has made bashing Apple their new favorite past time.
Trying out VimRepress
VimRePress In an ongoing effort to immerse myself in Vim as much as possible, I’m trying out a plugin called VimRepress – a fork of the popular Vimpress plugin.
Move over TextMate. MacVim is the new kid in town!
For years I’ve been rather proud of the fact that I’m a total polyglot when it comes to editors. I’m comfortable on both sides of the fence, using Emacs, Vi, TextMate, EditPlus, or even the venerable /bin/ed whenever that makes … Continue reading
Why Apple’s Mac App Store will be good for the Mac
When Apple said they were introducing an “App Store” to OSX a-la the iPhone, iPad, etc. there was much ranting and foaming at the mouth…
Don’t buy early access (MEAP) books from Manning Press.
I hate to write a negative blog post about a tech publisher’s ebooks program, but I’m afraid they’ve driven me to it… [May 20111 Update: Manning has changed things and you can now download any books you’ve ever bought from … Continue reading
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Tagged customer service, early access, ebooks, manning, meap, publishing, technical
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Managing crontabs with Git
April 2012 Update: Nowadays we use Chef from Opscode solutions to manage our crontabs, and just about everything else in our enterprise infrastructure. It rocks Time and time again over the years I’ve dealt with the same problem – who … Continue reading
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Tagged administration, bourne shell, cron, crontab, Git, management, SCM, script, shell, sysadmin, UNIX
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Will Java survive Oracle?
When Oracle bought Sun, I was initially fairly bullish on the idea – I thought Oracle might temper some of Sun’s whimsical brainstorming turned projects that it poured resources into, and create a leaner, meaner Sun.
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Tagged acquisition, community, development, Java, JavaOne, Oracle, Sun, support, technology
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Windows Scripting – a VBScript Survival Guide
1. Introduction If you’re new to the world of Windows scripting as I am, the array of acronyms, technologies and access methodologies that you need to traverse in order to get anything done can range from bewildering on a good … Continue reading
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Tagged deployment, Installers, microsoft, powershell, scripting, systems, vbscript, visual basic, Windows
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Yay and Boo all in one breath: The Amazon Kindle Development Kit (KDK)
Amazon has finally come out with the details around their Kindle Development Kit (KDK) you can read the details here.
3 Things Microsoft Should Do for Release Engineers
For the last year or so I’ve been working at a 100% Windows based enterprise development shop. They ship a fairly large and complex application for health insurance providers, which draws on many of the core technologies in the Microsoft … Continue reading
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Tagged infrastructure, Installers, installshield, microsoft, msbuild, powershell, release, releng, scripting, tfs, Windows
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