From the Duh How Did I Not Know That file.
1. BgInfo
SysInternals has a little program you need to have when you are running a whole lot of RDP sessions and you need to ask yourself where you are. I've been seeing these nice desktop backgrounds on my clients Windows servers, and now I need them more than ever.
2. Hak5
I've heard of it, but never actually went there. Duh! Now I'm 10 seasons behind. Much catching up to do. I'm going to end up missing the whole season of Fringe. Oh well. Now I think of all the time I wasted at Cranky Geeks and No Agenda. Kitchen is the new Dvorak, and probably gets along better with Chris DiBona.
Plus:
I am replacing my dependence on MSSQL with a new dependence on PSQL. That's Postgres. So far, so good. It's bloody quick on my Mac and I expect that using it will get me in the habit of ANSI standard SQL rather than the dialects of T/SQL and PL/SQL. I'm also dabbling a little bit with MySQL for the sake of its ubiquity.
I will be slowly converting my catalog, especially data objects older than seven years of NDA, into a cloudable data lake. So I'm putting together that which I will need to convert back and forth through SQL insert dumps, pipe delimited text, JSON and YAML. This will likely be my first serious Ruby project, if I have a moment's free time in the next 100 days.
Still to come is another update what I see as possible with Chef and how much I enjoyed my exposure to its inner philosophy and Opscode champions.
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