In my life as an opensource geek, I’ve had my fair share of interviews. Over the years like many other candidates, the interview has ended with the obligatory: “Do you have any questions for us?” This question plagues many recruits Continue reading
In the past few days the Linux (and UNIX and MacOS) world has been rocked by an exploit that is being called “potentially worse than Heartbleed”. Administrators and Engineers from around the planet have most likely spent the last 24-36 Continue reading
WordPress is the most popular free blog software on the planet. For this and other reasons, it is also one of the most targeted for spam. Since WordPress 2.0, Akismet has been included by default to manage spam. Akismet is Continue reading
Documentation. We all hate the process don’t we? While there is something gratifying about seeing a polished piece of technical documentation, the long and often times arduous task of creating, editing, proofing and validating steps can cause any systems administrator Continue reading
In March of 2013 I was working on a project to build new hardware based MySQL servers for a fairly large (550G at the time) INNODB database. The application fronting this database is public and in addition to it’s daily Continue reading