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Functioning with ADHD in an IT world
So I’ve got a reputation of been a productive guy. I’ve heard through the grape vine that some of the people in my company think I don’t sleep. I work constantly. I have no life. It’s funny the things...
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ADHD – Tools that keep me sane
So month ago, I wrote this first piece on ADHD and got an amazing amount of feedback. I also promised that I would put together a list of the tools that I use to help work with my predispositions...
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My iPhone Corrupted Profile or There and Back Again
My journey into the hallowed golden jail of Steve Jobs started in about 2008 with the brand new shiny iPhone 3G. I was Palm guy through and through. I had started with a Palm II in about 1998, I...
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Network Developer: A network engineers Journey into Python
Like most other people in the networking industry, I’ve been struggling with answering the question as to whether or not Network Engineers need to become programmers. It’s not an easy question to...
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Introduction to R and SWIRL
So I’m taking a Cousera course from John Hopkins on Data Science. The course uses the R programming language which is a derivative of the S programming language that came out of Bell labs in the 70’s....
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AirPlay and a Rowing Machine
Like so many other people in the IT field, it’s not the easiest things for me to find time during the day for all the things I want to do. Life gets busy and priorities happen. As a single father with...
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Automating your NMS build using Python and Restful APIs Part 1 – Creating...
It’s a funny world we live in. Unless you’re hiding under a rock, there’s been a substantial push in the industry over the last few years to move away from the CLI. As someone right in the middle of...
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Automating your NMS build – Part 3 Changing Device Categories
In the first couple of posts in this series, we created some operators, then we added some devices. In this post we’re going to look at something a little more complicated. In this post, we’re going...
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Presentation Tip: How to Zoom
This is one of those posts inspired by people asking me “Hey! How did you do that Zoom thing while you were presenting?” I’m not sure how I feel about them not asking me about the actual content, but...
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Intro to Jinja2
What is Jinja2 Jinja2 is a templating language that was originally used as part of the Flask python web framework. From the Jinja2 website Jinja2 is a full featured template engine for Python. It...
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More Jinja – Working with YAM as an Input
Jinja2 Simple YAML Example¶ We’re now going to take a look at grabbing a file from the hard drive written in YAML syntax. YAML is arguably the most human readable data serialization format which...
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Implenting Idempotency using HPE IMC
Try saying that five times fast. What if those VLANS already exist? There’s a concept called idempotency which can be loosely explained as Make sure it’s like this. If it’s not like this, make it...
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AirPlay and a Rowing Machine
Like so many other people in the IT field, it’s not the easiest things for me to find time during the day for all the things I want to do. Life gets busy and priorities happen. As a single father with...
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Automating your NMS build using Python and Restful APIs Part 1 – Creating...
It’s a funny world we live in. Unless you’re hiding under a rock, there’s been a substantial push in the industry over the last few years to move away from the CLI. As someone right in the middle of...
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Automating your NMS build – Part 3 Changing Device Categories
In the first couple of posts in this series, we created some operators, then we added some devices. In this post we’re going to look at something a little more complicated. In this post, we’re going...
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Automating your NMS build – Part 4 Adding Custom Views
This is part four in a series of using python and the RESTful API to automate the configuration of the HP IMC network management station. Like with all things, it’s easier to learn something when...
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Presentation Tip: How to Zoom
This is one of those posts inspired by people asking me “Hey! How did you do that Zoom thing while you were presenting?” I’m not sure how I feel about them not asking me about the actual content, but...
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I use SNMP SETs and I’m not afraid to admit it.
Do you remember back in CCNA school when we learned all sorts of great things that we very rarely followed. One of the favourites was that we are supposed to put meaningful descriptions on all of our...
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Intro to Jinja2
What is Jinja2 Jinja2 is a templating language that was originally used as part of the Flask python web framework. From the Jinja2 website Jinja2 is a full featured template engine for Python. It...
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More Jinja – Working with YAM as an Input
Jinja2 Simple YAML Example¶ We’re now going to take a look at grabbing a file from the hard drive written in YAML syntax. YAML is arguably the most human readable data serialization format which...
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