Monthly Archives: July 2010

breaking the private network oasis addiction with OAuth

Most reasonably (and larger) sized operations organizations have a pretty standard networking setup – or at least some close variation on the theme. ARIN wants public IP addresses behind load balancers, so most orgnizations front up their services through software … Continue reading

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the CMDB is dead, long live the CMDB

I work in an environment that has an existing CMDB. Over the past year, I’ve spent a fair number of man hours from my team and an equal number of hours of my own thinking about what it is, what … Continue reading

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Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging

I borrowed a copy of Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging from a friend today. Spent the bus ride home from the office flipping through the pages, and I’ve got to say – it’s a pretty darned good book! If you’re … Continue reading

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Ubuntu 10.04 (Desktop)

I’ve been using Ubuntu as my distribution of choice for VM’s and server instances, and on a lark I took a swag at installing Ubuntu desktop onto a VM yesterday. I’ve got to say, it’s a pretty usable setup. I … Continue reading

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WordPress 3.0 upgrade

New theme, and updated back end – moved everything this afternoon to WordPress version 3.0. Upgrade worked like a champ – and I took the time to twiddle the theme into something new and switched around the various widgets. Since … Continue reading

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