fighting the lack of good ideas
In my ongoing hunt to find worth-while tech books (most recently in the field of cloud computing), I’m here today to write about Cloud Computing in Easy Steps by David Crookes. First to note – this book is NOT about how to deploy cloud computing. It is about how to use lots of free and inexpensive options if you…
I learned about the call command in Windows recently. Some context – was trying to run a command via HPSA at a customer, but kept getting an error that the program was not a recognized internal or external command. Very frustrating. Then one of the guys I worked with suggested adding a “call” to the…
The first comment I have about Barrie Sosinsky’s book, Cloud Computing Bible is that it’s the first one I’ve read that doesn’t appear to have any sucky parts. This is a plus. Hybrid Cloud for Dummies was pretty much a waste of time. Deploying OpenStack was even worse. Sosinsky’s work, though, is not only less…
Knowledge capture, retention, and dissemination has been an interest of mine for a long time. I have written about various aspects of it before. The most vital commodity any organization has is the knowledge of its members – it does not matter if it is a historical society, company, church, or school: the organizational knowledge…
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After several years of pushing all of my personal email into Gmail, I’ve decided that relying [almost] exclusively on one provider is just not the best idea ever. Google is great. But, as with any cloud service, exclusively relying on just one provider is not the best. Going forward, I am going to be relying…
Many years ago, I started programming C++ with a friend of the family and member of my home church. We dove in with Borland C++ for Dummies by Michael Hyman and Stephen Prata’s C++ Primer Plus (Waite Group). Prata’s book was fantastic – if you were at the advanced high school / collegiate level. While…
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Google Apps: The Missing Manual by Nancy Conner was a great book. In 2008. Today? Not nearly so much. So much has changed in the Google landscape in the last few years (or even months) that, sadly, much of the content is now quaint, or just out-and-out wrong. It’s too bad – because the book…
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