From the blogger formerly known as Nickapedia
I mentioned in a slightly important recent post that Razor, the new cloud provisioning tool for bare & virtual metal, has a full RESTful API. Now I back that up with some documentation. Freshly added to the Razor Wiki on github is a overview of the Razor API. This includes examples on the JSON format…
Certain user may encounter issues with PXE/iPXE and Razor with specific broadcom networking cards. There is an alternate way to configure DHCP for Razor and I have created a Wiki page on the Razor project to walk your through setting it up. Go here to read the page: https://github.com/puppetlabs/Razor/wiki/Alternate-Pre-boot-Options-for-Compatibility .nick
Blogging has been very difficult for me over the last 4 months. My move to the Office of the CTO within EMC changed much of what I did and left me searching for content I could write about. Most of what I was dealing with on a daily basis was either too early to mention…
So my buddy posted the following tweet today: And since I had some calls today I decided to kick off a project to do just that. So here is a simple github link for UBERLinkedTwit: Basically a command line ruby script which using the LinkedIn gem to auth, pull, and grab twitter ID’s for your…
Last night I was lucky enough to be a guest on the Cloudcast(.NET) with cloud experts Brian Gracely and Aaron Delp. We covered the trip to VMware PEX, CloudConnect, and a little bit on DevOps (when I would stay on topic). Brian & Aaron’s podcast has quickly become the best source for interesting discussions related…
UPDATE : As of last week UBER Twitter Stats are offline. The account used for replying to requests was tagged as spam and blocked. I don’t plan on moving to a new account. Instead I am going to work on a replacement which should rock even more. Continuing my pursuit of the Manic Innovation Challenge…
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Once again the time has come in the year when vSphere-land.com does their voting for Top VMware/Virtualization blogs. I am a firm believer in voting for who you love so head over and take the quick couple minutes to choice your favorites. If something I have done on Nickapedia.com has been cool, useful, or inspiring…
I got some feedback that some users running Snow Leopard were crashing every time they started UNF. Turns out there was a method being used on a Cocoa control that required changes made in the 10.7 SDK. I rewrote the function to not need the method and have released a new version (version 1 build…
A few months ago I bought my first Mac. I had been a hardcore Windows workstation kind of guy. And being a C# coder in the late hours of the night it was all I needed. But, after seeing my former teammates (vSpecs) using their sexy Mac Books I finally made the switch. I picked…
Honestly I think the only reason I started this blog what as a holding spot for crazy things I wrote/built in my spare time. I never thought people would actually pay attention at first. Now I look back and realize that while I have stayed pretty true to that original course in some aspects, things…
Read more The next iteration : What I learned & what you can expect
