Many people tell me how fortunate I am to be passionate about what I do for a living. I say it’s a mixed blessing. There is no doubt that it makes me better at my job, but it also means that my brain is constantly spinning with work related clutter.... [Read More]

In part 1 of this series, I discussed how the IT landscape is changing, and that staying current means getting outside of your comfort zone and spending time experimenting with unfamiliar technology. In this post, we are going to take a look at Vagrant as a means of rapidly creating... [Read More]

Times Change When I got my start in IT, I counted myself among the wave of IT professionals that had emerged to support the demand of organizations looking to modernize by moving away from antiquated mainframe systems and paper processes. There was a technological revolution afoot, and it seemed obvious... [Read More]

What is DevOps? While a general consensus of what DevOps is seems to exist within the community, the precise definition is still the subject of debate. The elusive nature of an authoritative definition brings to mind the Supreme Court of the United States’ definition of obscenity (I know it when... [Read More]