This time of year is always a challenge. It is a time to celebrate, which we usually pair up with lots of dinners, treats, drinks with friends and so much visiting that the personal schedule is pretty much thrown out for the month, which also includes fitness time. As a cyclist, I usually have summer targets for peak fitness. And …
Strength in understanding weakness
It seems like a backwards concept sometimes, but the greatest strength in anything is understanding the weaknesses of an environment. This can be something in life, in sport, and in what we want to talk about here, in technology. When doing business and systems analysis it is equally, if not more important to understand and document the limitations and challenges …
2013 Predictions in Virtualization and Server Technology
Well folks, it’s that time of year. Usually people are putting together their best of 2012 stuff now, but I’m taking the different tactic and putting myself out there to predict some changes which will come in 2013. The usual disclaimer: As with any predictions, these are my own and have no basis on NDA content, inside knowledge nor do …
DiscoPosse Review: iOS 6 Programming Cookbook – Vandad Nahavandipoor
One word review: Complete. The iOS 6 Programming Cookbook by Vandad Nahavandipoor from O’Reilly Publishing is not just a cookbook, but a full end-to-end recipe guide for every aspect of iOS application development for iPhone and iPad using Xcode from Apple. The audience is definitely developers. As a system admin with some dabbling in development along the way, I found …