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  How quickly things change

  12.05.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  As this is a personal blog, let’s get personal for a little while, if you’ll permit me. November 2010 will definitely be known in my books as a month of Change with a capital “C”. First I was diagnosed with Type II Diabetes. Not completely shocking (with both parents having Type II as well), but [...]

• blog, design, sites, web design, work

  New site launched: Stacked Bits

  11.22.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  After a long time pondering whether or not do do it, I’ve started building a new website about web development and design, Stacked Bits, officially launched today. The site uses a basic blogzine format and will contain articles on PHP, XHTML/CSS, and basically anything to do with web development and design I come up with. [...]

• tv, work

  The birth of the kilt

  10.01.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’ve been working with some Scottish colleagues all week, and that made me think of this: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

• ict / computers, work

  Scripting a graceful guest shutdown on Vmware ESX

  10.01.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  I know there are several scripts floating around out there that do this, but I still decided to make one from scratch. This script (for ESX servers or ESXi servers managed through a VMA) will find any VMs that are powered on on the server, try a “soft” shutdown, wait a while and then retry [...]

• life, work

  How to grow as a presenter: examples

  08.26.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  I know there are a lot of sites, books, DVDs and courses out there that can help you be a better presenter. Personally I have learned a lot more from watching some great presenters in action than I ever picked up from any book. And the plus side is that you’re learning some stuff and [...]

• ict / computers, work

  Scripting multiple simultaneous clones in VMware

  04.17.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’ve built this VMware PowerCLI (formerly VI Toolkit) script for a customer that required multiple simultaneous clonings that he could easily configure to back up his production VMs. I’ve included a mechanism to limit the maximum number of concurrent clonings to maximise performance, so when using this script it will take some experimentation to find [...]

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