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Here’s to 2016 (A year in the life…)

While 2015 was a year of many great accomplishments, I ended the year on a personal downer.  While most people that get invited as a delegate to the Tech Field Day events consider it a great accomplishment, I went away … Continue reading

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Evolving APIs

One of the things that’s interesting to watch in our industry is evolution.  We see companies evolving everything about themselves.  Typically, we see companies do this with their technical designs or with their marketing messages.  Personally, I’ve been paying attention … Continue reading

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Learning to Code

When I was in high school, I absolutely loved getting ahold of the computer systems (in my case specifically, the Apple II gs) and spending a lot of time doing programming tasks in Apple BASIC.  I once wrote a program … Continue reading

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Community Recognition, 2016 Edition

Ah, the end of January/beginning of February always brings forth good news for those of us that are active in our respective technical communities.  Many community recognition programs announce their new year rosters.  I’m proud to say that I made … Continue reading

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My 2015 Review and 2016 Goals

So, I know I’m a little late with this.  I’ve been told that I have a bad habit of just being slightly behind the times.  Guess this proves it. What’s the whole point of this particular blog post?  Pretty simple.  … Continue reading

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The Road From Nowhere

Since I’ve told you a story or two, why not tell another one?  Seems everyone in the virtualization community loves a good story.  Let’s rewind our clocks back to 2013.  I’d love to be able to pinpoint an exact moment … Continue reading

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Virtualization Field Day 6

I’m going to set the scene for a story.  It started in late May 2015.  I had just arrived back to Kansas City from a rather impromptu Cisco Live 2015 visit.  I wasn’t planning on going, but I got contacted … Continue reading

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Tales of a GitHub newbie…

Well, I finally did it.  I finally started playing with GitHub.  I’ve threatened to do so in the past, but I figure this is going to be one of the better ways to share code than just expecting anyone to … Continue reading

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Resolving UCS Director’s Issues with Associating UCS Central Global Service Profiles to UCS C-Series

Forgive the long winded title, but I really struggled on how to put all of that information up there. First and foremost, let’s describe the program I ran into while trying to associate a Global Service Profile (I’ll refer to … Continue reading

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The continued adventures of UCS Central in UCS Director!

It’s now been roughly 15 months since I first started working with Cisco UCS Director.  While I love what the product brings to the table, there are times where it just frustrates me like no end.  My current point in … Continue reading

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