I do a lot of work with Ubuntu, 90% or so of that work is from an Ubuntu instance. Often that instance happens to be a local VM running in VMware Fusion (or sometimes Virtual Box). Often I’ll start with a base server image which isn’t entirely setup for SSHing into the instance. These are... Continue reading →

After the previous blog entry I wrote up, working through getting vagrant to spool up a vmware image I got a few other suggestions via Twitter. @adron Delete the “.vagrant” directory. — Mitchell Hashimoto (@mitchellh) April 26, 2013 @adron @mitchellh @jeffsussna @dberkholz @monkchips @sogrady did you delete your .vagrant subfolder and try again with –provider... Continue reading →

Open Source Software (OSS), Why Some Fail At It OSS has won the war. It has been over for years now. Microsoft has ceded, Oracle, VMware and many others have stepped up and attempted to embrace the open source community. Sometimes they’ve been successful, sometimes they haven’t. They’re slowly changing their models to play well... Continue reading →

The Divide in Technologists… Sexism & Those That are Building Tech There seems to be a pretty distinctive divide in the technology industry today. There are the young, open minded, devop oriented, free-thinking individuals and then there are the old guard of IT. This later group still brings the “booth babes” and finds an incessant... Continue reading →

Summary Statement: CloudCamp rocked! I got to meet a lot of smart people and have a lot of smart conversations! Ok, so I probably shouldn’t write the summary statement first, but I’m not one for standard operating procedure. But I digress, I’ll dive straight into the cloud topics and the event itself. The event kicked... Continue reading →