I had the privilege of attending VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas as a blogger (thank you, VMware social team!). It was a unique experience for me, as I’ve attended the show as a vendor employee for a number of years. Going as a blogger enabled me to catch up with folks I hadn’t seen since […]
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SSL all the WordPress!
I’ve been running my wp-admin page over SSL for a while now, having purchased a signed SSL certificate through my web hosting provider. I recently installed the WordPress HTTPS plugin but was experiencing issues with forcing SSL on the admin pages and forcing non-SSL through everything else. The issue was with the plugin’s option to […]
#AWS Glacier & SNS #PowerShell cmdlets
So, yeah, I finally finished writing this. In terms of coding projects, this one has been the most challenging for a number of reasons. First, AWS Glacier is cold storage, which means that vault inventories and archive retrievals have (approximately) a four hour wait before further action can be taken. After the job completes, it […]
My experience at #IndyVMUG #DemoDays2012
I had an opportunity to speak at the Indianapolis VMUG last Thursday, July 26th, thanks to a gracious invitation from Mike Ellis and Kyle Ruddy. This was my second VMUG user conference in Indianapolis; I attended last year as a sponsor. In case you’re not aware of the Indy VMUG, it’s quite possibly one of […]
#CloudCamp Austin: Lightning Talk with @thinkingserious
On Sunday March 11th, I had the pleasure of attending CloudCamp in downtown Austin during SXSW. If you aren’t familiar with it, CloudCamp is an “unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas.” It was hosted by Dave Nielsen (@davenielsen), and was attended by a variety of vendors, cloud computing administrators, and folks like me who […]