Monthly Archive: January 2015

Jan 23

Nifty Things for Week 23 January 2015

Animation ‘Robot Chicken’ Animator Uses Nintendo Power Glove As Tool (Video) Career What’s a Pain Letter? – Human Workplace Forget Cover Letters – Write A Pain Letter, Instead! – Forbes How To Write Your Human-Voiced Resume – Forbes These Ten Zombie Phrases Are Killing Your Resume – Forbes Making MarkForged Lets You 3D Print With …

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Jan 16

Nifty Things for Week 16 January 2015

Quotes 10 Best Quotes from Linus Torvalds’ Keynote at LinuxCon Europe | Linux.com Open Source Pick a License, any License A Quick Guide to GPLv3 Copyleft and the GNU General Public License: A Comprehensive Tutorial and Guide Software Freedom Law Center Guide to GPL Compliance 2nd Edition SPDX — The Software Package Data Exchange® (SPDX®) …

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Jan 13

It’s a Trap: Losing Faith in Protex

Protex snippet match does not behave as expected.

Jan 12

Part of what makes Open Source analysis “interesting”

You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into… the Open Source Zone. — Not Rod Serling Consider a …

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Jan 11

Desperately Seeking Open Source Governance

At the end of the day Open Source is here to stay. I believe that this is a good thing. However, there still needs to be some thought given to licensing obligations and how individual Open Source projects are used in an application. This governance needs to extend to work-for-hire produced for a company.

Jan 09

Nifty Things for Week 9 January 2015

Networking Indigo Virtual Switch Project Floodlight — Open Source SDN Cloud Make No Mistake: Mesosphere is Going After OpenStack 5 PaaS anti-patterns Cloud Computing Basics — Platform as a Service (PaaS) DevOps The Three Question DevOps Litmus Test Three More #DEVOPS Litmus Tests ARE YOU REALLY DOING DEVOPS? 8 PREREQUISITES YOU MUST CONSIDER DevOps Bookmarks …

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Jan 02

How to make Ubuntu Snappy no longer snappy

In wishing to test my Snappy Swarm — scripts to run Docker Swarm under Ubuntu Snappy (work in progress, but almost ready for a release) — I decided to try running the scripts inside a Virtualbox instance spawned by Vagrant. kvm doesn’t work inside virtualbox, so qemu was the way to go. I’m modifying the …

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Jan 02

Nifty Things for Week 2 Jan 2015

Tools Taiga — Open Source agile project management. Supports Scrum & Kanban out of the box. Open Daylight — Software defined networking Cloud OSv — Open Source Operating System designed for Cloud Mesosphere DCOS: One command control of data center services Life Lessons 5 Lessons I Learned at Ebay So You Want to be a …

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