Last night I wrote an email advising a client about the Heartbleed vulnerability and its impact on operations. I'm posting that here, as it's a little more balanced and professional (and better written) than the blog entry I wrote last night. Of course I've omitted names to protect my clients' …
I'm trying not to be alarmist, but it seems we've got a "holy fucking shit" security bug that everyone who runs a server needs to be aware of. And that everyone who uses the Internet needs to be aware of. Note that this was written on April 7, 2014 …
I'm doing some work on demo projects for AT&T's M2X.1 Prior to this there was example code, but there wasn't a quick and easy way of getting a working example going.
I've now created two new demos, with two hosting options:
The Vagrant demo, of course …
If you're using Vagrant and you've upgraded to the latest version of VirtualBox (4.3.10 as of March 25, 2014), and you've got vagrant-vbguest installed (as you should) then you've undoubtedly run into a nasty bug:
default: /vagrant => /YOUR_VAGRANT_DIRECTORY
Failed to mount folders in Linux guest. This is usually …I do a lot of work with virtual machines (mainly Vagrant / VirtualBox instances for my DevOps work) and speed is a huge issue for me.
When I started at my new job I requested the fastest computer I could find -- a new iMac with an SSD drive -- and it's still …
I'm incredibly excited to be working at Citrusbyte. I'm not sure how much I can say about how they work, but I know I can say this: They do their best to work according to the video and blog posts on this "How Github Works" page.
I remember reading those …
I had my favorite kind of consulting gig recently -- a friend who runs a consulting company called, and said he had a problem his guys couldn't figure out. I love being tech support for other smart geeks!
It's pretty hard to find a solution to this on Google, so I …
In my piece on the Four Percent Rule, I talked about Jeremy Grantham's November 2012 essay, "On the Road to Zero Growth[1. Available from the "Jeremy Grantham's Letters and Articles" section of the GMO website, but only after you register. Registration is free.]. In that piece I listed some …
I recently finished "Think, Act, and Invest Like Warren Buffett: The Winning Strategy to Help You Achieve Your Financial and Life Goals," by Larry Swedroe. The Warren Buffett stuff is just a facade -- a shtick to get investors who are frightened by scholarly works to read the book. Nevertheless, the …
I'm intelligent, talented, have a good job that pays me well, and have had more good luck in this life than I deserve. So why am I broke?
Broke? Yes. I'm 40 years old, have zero credit-card debt, few savings, owe back taxes, and my wife has student loans. Our …