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Last updated May 26th 2011. Thu Jan 27, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. The perfect.vimrc vim config file. I have spent the last few years tweaking and refining my VIM configuration. This is the ultimate VIM configuration.vimrc file. It is well organized and documented. MORE
I believe strongly in visual frameworks as a way of communicating and engaging with complex ideas. I share these on the web, sometimes use them as central frames for my keynotes, apply them in strategy workshops, use them to shape my own thinking on the topics they cover, and sometimes create private custom visual frameworks for clients to define and articulate their strategy. I will be shortly launching a more complete review of all the public visual frameworks I’ve created. MORE
Friday, February 04, 2011. Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 and Interaction with Small Business Server 2011 Essentials. I know I have talked before about Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 , and how it can help your Small Business with thin clients, old clients, seasonal employees and even reducing the number of machines in the office by getting one nice one. While this is all content that applies to RTM, currently SBS 2011 and MultiPoint 2011 are in Beta. MORE
KMA was fortunate to have been able to send six people to SPC 2011 in Anaheim, CA last month, and although we've done our share of blogging and presenting about it, we're most pleased to present this week's in-person event for our clients and prospects: a half-day recap of the conference highlights, presented by colleagues as follows: Amy Talhouk summarizing the best of Project Server and SharePoint. MORE
Presentation given at PHP’s biggest conference, ZendCon 2011. MongoDB and PHP ZendCon 2011 View more presentations from Steve Francia Covers the basics of using MongoDB with PHP. MORE
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This presentation was given at the LDS Tech SORT Conference 2011 in Salt Lake City. The slides are quite comprehensive covering many topics on MongoDB. Rather than a traditional presentation, this was presented as more of a Q & A session. Topics covered include. Introduction to MongoDB, Use Cases, Schema design, High availability (replication) and Horizontal Scaling (sharding). MongoDB View more presentations from Steve Francia MORE
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I had the opportunity to present at the PHP Cloud Summit 2011 among some great presenters. This was first time speaking at an online conference. Thanks to the diligent efforts from Cal, Keith and Jeremy at PHPArch it was a really successful experience. I actually presented with two Macbooks. One open to IRC where questions were coming in and the other open to the presentation. MORE
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the LDS Church’s SORT tech conference. Nearly 1200 people were in attendance. There were 23 concurrent tracks and I was able to present two presentations and be on a panel with other NoSQL solutions including Cassandra, CouchDB, Neo4j, Riak and MarkLogic. The panel went for 90 minutes the first half being an 5 – 10 minute introduction of each technology and the second half being a QA period MORE
100 Tuesday, January 25, 2011. Presentation on SBS 2011 Essentials and Standard on top of HP hardware, by yours truly! User Group at the beginning of February for a presentation on Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Standard running on HP hardware. See what’s new with Small Business Server 2011 Standard and Essentials and learn about HPs offerings for Small Business server hardware. The Basics of Local DNS for Small Business Server 2011 Essentials. MORE
10gen had our flagship conference in Silicon Valley. I gave an introductory presentation at the first session on building an application in MongoDB. This talk will introduce the features of MongoDB by walking through how one can building a simple location-based application using MongoDB. It covers the basics of MongoDB’s document model, query language, map-reduce framework and deployment architecture. MORE
Tuesday, August 9, 2011. August 13, 2011 at 12:35 PM. ▼ 2011. (22). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Cloud Is Not The End - Its The Means. Once you get a new tool, you ask: What can I build that I couldnt before? Cloud computing, at its core, is an operational transformation - mostly focused on infrastructure. MORE
Tuesday, December 27, 2011. December 2011: GovCloud Moves From Policy to Law. December 30, 2010 - GovCloud Predicitons for 2011. 2011 will be the breakout year for GovCloud! December 2011: And what did Santa bring this year!! Jan 2011 ISBN: 978-0-9832361-3-9. ▼ 2011. (32). December 2011: GovCloud Moves From Policy to Law. Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson. MORE
Phil Schiller, the Apple executive in charge of the App Store, raised the possibility of the company cutting its 30 percent commission rate to 25 or even 20 percent back in 2011 in response to competition. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. MORE
This video was posted on Waxy , where they calculate the date of the video as September 16, 2011, based on the calendar on the desk, and the request for a five-year old research paper from 2006. This is very, very good. This video created by Apple in 1987 shows how a ‘Knowledge Navigator’ would work, depicting a university professor interacting with a tablet computer through voice. MORE
” For CIOs who are looking to create new value for their organization in 2011, here are five areas for experimentation that have the potential to yield incremental innovations that can increase profitability. Use these simple but important types of tests to figure out what the cloud means to your organization instead of sitting on the sidelines in 2011. 2011 CIO Agenda – A. MORE
Dear Santa: 2011 has been an average year. Filed under: CIO , Random Thoughts Tagged: Chief Information Officer , cio 2011 chirstmas list , cio chirtmas ist 2011 , cio christmas list , cio xmas list , cio xmas wish list , tech 2011 list , technology , what CIOs want. CIO Random Thoughts Chief Information Officer cio 2011 chirstmas list cio chirtmas ist 2011 cio christmas list cio xmas list cio xmas wish list tech 2011 list technology what CIOs want MORE
Wed Dec 28, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Windows Power User Tools. m a huge fan of Windows 7. s the first time Iâ??ve ve ever run a Microsoft OS on my primary (home) machine. Â Iâ??ve MORE
Disk cloning has become common as IT professionals virtualize physical servers using tools like Sysinternals Disk2vhd and use a master virtual hard disk image as the base for copies created for virtual machine clones. In most cases, you can operate with.( read more MORE
This case unfolds with a network administrator charged with the rollout of the Microsoft Windows Intune client software on their network. Windows Intune is a cloud service that manages systems on a corporate network, keeping their software up to date.( read more MORE
LDS SORT Tech Conference 2011. Fri Oct 21, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Last week I had the opportunity to attend the LDS Churchâ??s s SORT tech conference. Nearly 1200 people were in attendance. MORE
Thursday, January 27, 2011. CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO. A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. Primarily focused on technology, leadership and some of my recreational pursuits. Follow me on twitter at @BarryCondrey Enjoy! AT&T vs. Verizon - A Mobile Broadband Speed Test. Okay, so not a very scientific one, but here goes. I use a Motorola Droid all day, every day for business and personal. MORE
Aaron Margosis and I are thrilled to announce that the long awaited, and some say long overdue, official guide to the Sysinternals tools is now available ! I’ve always had the idea of writing a book on the tools in the back of my mind, but it wasn’t until.( read more MORE
Reinvent Your Training Methods by Chris Curran. Available does not equal best by Eric D. Brown. Transitioning IT from a technical focus to a business focus by IT BS Watch. How to Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs Part 1 by Isaac Sacolick. Free Answers From Google On How CIOs Can Be Better Managers by Jim Anderson. MORE
Wed Jul 13, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Where have all the good databases gone? Perhaps youâ??ll ll recognize these words, â??About About five years ago I started to notice an odd thing. MORE
This case opens when a Sysinternals power user, who also works as a system administrator at a large corporation, had a friend report that their laptop had become unusable. Whenever the friend connected it to a network, their laptop would reboot. The power.( read more MORE
On December 30 Gulf News published a compilation of local and worldwide media personalities’ forecasts for the media industry in 2011. Contributors including Bertrand Pecquerie, Director of the World Editors Forum, Kris Viesselman, President and Creative Director of San Diego Union Tribune, and Gilles Demptos, Director of Publications at WAN-IFRA. This was my contribution: Ross Dawson. Future Exploration Network, Chairman. MORE
Fri Sep 30, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Hybrid Cloud Computing. Traditionally ecommerce companies have had no place in the cloud. MORE
Thu Jun 30, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Competition for the Cloud Heats Up. karindalziel. Cloud no longer a single vendor game. For years cloud computing has been synonymous with Amazon whose Amazon Web Services really created and defined the space. MORE
Fri Jul 8, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Easy bash scripting with shflags. One of the most frustrating things about bash scripts is how challenging it is to create unix style executables. You know, the ones where you can pass in -h or â??help help and see the set of options for the program. MORE
As such we have re-created our Zeitgeist for 2011 as a slideshow, as it’s an easier way to digest the 11 themes we put forward. The 11 themes of the Zeitgeist for 2011. As you no doubt know, the delightful word “Zeitgeist&# comes from the German, meaning ‘spirit of the times’ And in these extraordinary times it is useful to distill the spirits of the day. MORE
In the first post of this series , I used Autoruns , Process Explorer and VMMap to statically analyze a Stuxnet infection on Windows XP. That phase of the investigation revealed that Stuxnet infected multiple processes, launched infected processes that.( read more MORE
Tue Jun 7, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. The Browser as an application platform. With Google launching their chrome book is significant as it reflects a substantial shift in the world of computing. For the first time ever, the application platform. isnâ??t MORE
Mon Jun 20, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Creating a Symfony2 Console Command. One of the weaknesses of PHP as a languages has always been itâ??s s ability to write proper command line utilities. MORE
Tuesday, March 29, 2011. Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Intel vPro Add-in. As we announced SBS 2011 Essentials RTM this morning , I thought it would be interesting to also highlight a really cool add-in that allows you to not only view your computers, but if you have the Intel vPro chipset, you can also control power management of your PCs, right from your console with the Intel vPro add-in. The Basics of Local DNS for Small Business Server 2011 Essentials. MORE
Thu Jun 16, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Pandora's IPO. a sign of the times. Pandora filed their IPO today. By end of day Pandora was worth 3.2 Billion. MORE
Tuesday, March 29, 2011. Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials & Windows Home Server 2011 RTM! Both Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Windows Home Server 2011 have released to manufacturing! Windows Small Business Server 2011 is the ideal first server for small businesses with up to 25 users, providing a cost-effective, easy to use solution for protecting, organizing and accessing company data from anywhere. SBS 2011 Standard. MORE
Though I didn’t realize what I was seeing, Stuxnet first came to my attention on July 5 last summer when I received an email from a programmer that included a driver file, Mrxnet.sys, that they had identified as a rootkit. A driver that implements rootkit.( read more MORE
Better Communication: Technology Isn’t Always The Best Solution by Mike Schaffner. CIO as General Manager? by Mark Brewer. Can a CIO be successful without IT experience? Define your terms! by Peter Kretzman. Four Models for success for the CTO / CIO- CTOVision by Eric Brown. Why CIOs Need Management Power Maps To Get Anything Done by Jim Anderson. How To Cope When The Boss Is A Bully by Andy Blumenthal. MORE
Tue May 24, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Creating your own Symfony2 Bundle. Symfony2 is a great web framework. OpenSky is built on this framework and we are one of the largest contributors to it. The primary building block for Symfony2 is a bundle. Through itâ??s s bundle system Symfony 2.0 MORE
In Part 1 I began my investigation of an example infection of the infamous Stuxnet worm with the Sysinternals tools. I used Process Explorer , Autoruns and VMMap for a post-infection survey of the system. Autoruns quickly revealed the heart of Stuxnet.( read more MORE
Symfony2 is slated for release in March 2011. Tue Feb 1, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. On Symfony2. Disclaimer. ve got a couple disclaimers in writing this. m one of the primary authors of the Zoop Framework for PHP. s pretty much the first web framework for PHP dating back to 2001. MORE
Every year when April – otherwise known as Autism Awareness Month – rolls around, I ask myself, “Awareness? Awareness of what exactly?&# In the past I have often forgotten my own advice and tried to find a “one-size-fits-all&# answer to the question. (My My advice: there is no such thing as one-size-fits-all for anything.) Some years I just bailed on the question altogether. MORE
What specific trends do you see for 2011? The very dynamic Adam Franklin and Toby Jenkins of Bluewire Media recently did a video interview of me, asking me about the trends driving how the web will shape business. Here is the video, with a summary of my headline points below. Also see Bluewire Media’s original post of the video , which has my comments written up in greater detail.). What do you see the future of the web being for businesses? MORE
Mon Mar 7, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Getting Started with Symfony2. In a follow up to my popular post on Symfony2 , the open source PHP framework we use at OpenSky , Iâ??m m providing an easy guide to getting started using Symfony2. This isnâ??t t your basic â??Hello Hello Worldâ??, MORE
2011 Related Topics SPF13
OCTOBER 20, 2011
LDS SORT Tech Conference 2011. Fri Oct 21, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Last week I had the opportunity to attend the LDS Churchâ??s s SORT tech conference. Nearly 1200 people were in attendance.
CIO Dashboard
JANUARY 1, 2011
” For CIOs who are looking to create new value for their organization in 2011, here are five areas for experimentation that have the potential to yield incremental innovations that can increase profitability. Use these simple but important types of tests to figure out what the cloud means to your organization instead of sitting on the sidelines in 2011. 2011 CIO Agenda – A.
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SPF13
OCTOBER 19, 2011
Presentation given at PHP’s biggest conference, ZendCon 2011. MongoDB and PHP ZendCon 2011 View more presentations from Steve Francia Covers the basics of using MongoDB with PHP.
SPF13
OCTOBER 19, 2011
This presentation was given at the LDS Tech SORT Conference 2011 in Salt Lake City. The slides are quite comprehensive covering many topics on MongoDB. Rather than a traditional presentation, this was presented as more of a Q & A session. Topics covered include. Introduction to MongoDB, Use Cases, Schema design, High availability (replication) and Horizontal Scaling (sharding). MongoDB View more presentations from Steve Francia
A CIO's Voice
JULY 19, 2011
Reinvent Your Training Methods by Chris Curran. Available does not equal best by Eric D. Brown. Transitioning IT from a technical focus to a business focus by IT BS Watch. How to Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs Part 1 by Isaac Sacolick. Free Answers From Google On How CIOs Can Be Better Managers by Jim Anderson.
SPF13
OCTOBER 20, 2011
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the LDS Church’s SORT tech conference. Nearly 1200 people were in attendance. There were 23 concurrent tracks and I was able to present two presentations and be on a panel with other NoSQL solutions including Cassandra, CouchDB, Neo4j, Riak and MarkLogic. The panel went for 90 minutes the first half being an 5 – 10 minute introduction of each technology and the second half being a QA period
Trends in the Living Networks
OCTOBER 9, 2011
This video was posted on Waxy , where they calculate the date of the video as September 16, 2011, based on the calendar on the desk, and the request for a five-year old research paper from 2006. This is very, very good. This video created by Apple in 1987 shows how a ‘Knowledge Navigator’ would work, depicting a university professor interacting with a tablet computer through voice.
Trends in the Living Networks
JANUARY 17, 2011
On December 30 Gulf News published a compilation of local and worldwide media personalities’ forecasts for the media industry in 2011. Contributors including Bertrand Pecquerie, Director of the World Editors Forum, Kris Viesselman, President and Creative Director of San Diego Union Tribune, and Gilles Demptos, Director of Publications at WAN-IFRA. This was my contribution: Ross Dawson. Future Exploration Network, Chairman.
SPF13
DECEMBER 9, 2011
10gen had our flagship conference in Silicon Valley. I gave an introductory presentation at the first session on building an application in MongoDB. This talk will introduce the features of MongoDB by walking through how one can building a simple location-based application using MongoDB. It covers the basics of MongoDB’s document model, query language, map-reduce framework and deployment architecture.
Trends in the Living Networks
JANUARY 12, 2011
As such we have re-created our Zeitgeist for 2011 as a slideshow, as it’s an easier way to digest the 11 themes we put forward. The 11 themes of the Zeitgeist for 2011. As you no doubt know, the delightful word “Zeitgeist&# comes from the German, meaning ‘spirit of the times’ And in these extraordinary times it is useful to distill the spirits of the day.
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 21, 2011
I believe strongly in visual frameworks as a way of communicating and engaging with complex ideas. I share these on the web, sometimes use them as central frames for my keynotes, apply them in strategy workshops, use them to shape my own thinking on the topics they cover, and sometimes create private custom visual frameworks for clients to define and articulate their strategy. I will be shortly launching a more complete review of all the public visual frameworks I’ve created.
Sean Daniel
MARCH 29, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011. Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials & Windows Home Server 2011 RTM! Both Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Windows Home Server 2011 have released to manufacturing! Windows Small Business Server 2011 is the ideal first server for small businesses with up to 25 users, providing a cost-effective, easy to use solution for protecting, organizing and accessing company data from anywhere. SBS 2011 Standard.
Trends in the Living Networks
FEBRUARY 28, 2011
What specific trends do you see for 2011? The very dynamic Adam Franklin and Toby Jenkins of Bluewire Media recently did a video interview of me, asking me about the trends driving how the web will shape business. Here is the video, with a summary of my headline points below. Also see Bluewire Media’s original post of the video , which has my comments written up in greater detail.). What do you see the future of the web being for businesses?
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A CIO's Voice
JANUARY 25, 2011
Better Communication: Technology Isn’t Always The Best Solution by Mike Schaffner. CIO as General Manager? by Mark Brewer. Can a CIO be successful without IT experience? Define your terms! by Peter Kretzman. Four Models for success for the CTO / CIO- CTOVision by Eric Brown. Why CIOs Need Management Power Maps To Get Anything Done by Jim Anderson. How To Cope When The Boss Is A Bully by Andy Blumenthal.
SPF13
JANUARY 27, 2011
Last updated May 26th 2011. Thu Jan 27, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. The perfect.vimrc vim config file. I have spent the last few years tweaking and refining my VIM configuration. This is the ultimate VIM configuration.vimrc file. It is well organized and documented.
Sean Daniel
JANUARY 25, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011. Presentation on SBS 2011 Essentials and Standard on top of HP hardware, by yours truly! User Group at the beginning of February for a presentation on Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Standard running on HP hardware. See what’s new with Small Business Server 2011 Standard and Essentials and learn about HPs offerings for Small Business server hardware. The Basics of Local DNS for Small Business Server 2011 Essentials.
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
APRIL 1, 2011
Every year when April – otherwise known as Autism Awareness Month – rolls around, I ask myself, “Awareness? Awareness of what exactly?&# In the past I have often forgotten my own advice and tried to find a “one-size-fits-all&# answer to the question. (My My advice: there is no such thing as one-size-fits-all for anything.) Some years I just bailed on the question altogether.
SPF13
FEBRUARY 1, 2011
Symfony2 is slated for release in March 2011. Tue Feb 1, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. On Symfony2. Disclaimer. ve got a couple disclaimers in writing this. m one of the primary authors of the Zoop Framework for PHP. s pretty much the first web framework for PHP dating back to 2001.
Cloud Musings
DECEMBER 27, 2011
Tuesday, December 27, 2011. December 2011: GovCloud Moves From Policy to Law. December 30, 2010 - GovCloud Predicitons for 2011. 2011 will be the breakout year for GovCloud! December 2011: And what did Santa bring this year!! Jan 2011 ISBN: 978-0-9832361-3-9. ▼ 2011. (32). December 2011: GovCloud Moves From Policy to Law. Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson.
Sean Daniel
FEBRUARY 4, 2011
Friday, February 04, 2011. Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 and Interaction with Small Business Server 2011 Essentials. I know I have talked before about Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 , and how it can help your Small Business with thin clients, old clients, seasonal employees and even reducing the number of machines in the office by getting one nice one. While this is all content that applies to RTM, currently SBS 2011 and MultiPoint 2011 are in Beta.
A CIO's Voice
DECEMBER 23, 2011
Dear Santa: 2011 has been an average year. Filed under: CIO , Random Thoughts Tagged: Chief Information Officer , cio 2011 chirstmas list , cio chirtmas ist 2011 , cio christmas list , cio xmas list , cio xmas wish list , tech 2011 list , technology , what CIOs want. CIO Random Thoughts Chief Information Officer cio 2011 chirstmas list cio chirtmas ist 2011 cio christmas list cio xmas list cio xmas wish list tech 2011 list technology what CIOs want
CIO Musings
JANUARY 27, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011. CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO. A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. Primarily focused on technology, leadership and some of my recreational pursuits. Follow me on twitter at @BarryCondrey Enjoy! AT&T vs. Verizon - A Mobile Broadband Speed Test. Okay, so not a very scientific one, but here goes. I use a Motorola Droid all day, every day for business and personal.
SPF13
JUNE 20, 2011
Mon Jun 20, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Creating a Symfony2 Console Command. One of the weaknesses of PHP as a languages has always been itâ??s s ability to write proper command line utilities.
SPF13
JULY 13, 2011
Wed Jul 13, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Where have all the good databases gone? Perhaps youâ??ll ll recognize these words, â??About About five years ago I started to notice an odd thing.
SPF13
MARCH 7, 2011
Mon Mar 7, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Getting Started with Symfony2. In a follow up to my popular post on Symfony2 , the open source PHP framework we use at OpenSky , Iâ??m m providing an easy guide to getting started using Symfony2. This isnâ??t t your basic â??Hello Hello Worldâ??,
Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
NOVEMBER 14, 2011
KMA was fortunate to have been able to send six people to SPC 2011 in Anaheim, CA last month, and although we've done our share of blogging and presenting about it, we're most pleased to present this week's in-person event for our clients and prospects: a half-day recap of the conference highlights, presented by colleagues as follows: Amy Talhouk summarizing the best of Project Server and SharePoint.
SPF13
JUNE 29, 2011
Thu Jun 30, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Competition for the Cloud Heats Up. karindalziel. Cloud no longer a single vendor game. For years cloud computing has been synonymous with Amazon whose Amazon Web Services really created and defined the space.
SPF13
JUNE 7, 2011
Tue Jun 7, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. The Browser as an application platform. With Google launching their chrome book is significant as it reflects a substantial shift in the world of computing. For the first time ever, the application platform. isnâ??t
IT Pros Rock!
NOVEMBER 28, 2011
This case unfolds with a network administrator charged with the rollout of the Microsoft Windows Intune client software on their network. Windows Intune is a cloud service that manages systems on a corporate network, keeping their software up to date.( read more
SPF13
MAY 24, 2011
Tue May 24, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Creating your own Symfony2 Bundle. Symfony2 is a great web framework. OpenSky is built on this framework and we are one of the largest contributors to it. The primary building block for Symfony2 is a bundle. Through itâ??s s bundle system Symfony 2.0
IT Pros Rock!
NOVEMBER 8, 2011
Disk cloning has become common as IT professionals virtualize physical servers using tools like Sysinternals Disk2vhd and use a master virtual hard disk image as the base for copies created for virtual machine clones. In most cases, you can operate with.( read more
The Verge
MAY 4, 2021
Phil Schiller, the Apple executive in charge of the App Store, raised the possibility of the company cutting its 30 percent commission rate to 25 or even 20 percent back in 2011 in response to competition. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.
IT Pros Rock!
OCTOBER 3, 2011
This case opens when a Sysinternals power user, who also works as a system administrator at a large corporation, had a friend report that their laptop had become unusable. Whenever the friend connected it to a network, their laptop would reboot. The power.( read more
SPF13
JUNE 15, 2011
Thu Jun 16, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Pandora's IPO. a sign of the times. Pandora filed their IPO today. By end of day Pandora was worth 3.2 Billion.
Fountainhead
AUGUST 9, 2011
Tuesday, August 9, 2011. August 13, 2011 at 12:35 PM. ▼ 2011. (22). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Cloud Is Not The End - Its The Means. Once you get a new tool, you ask: What can I build that I couldnt before? Cloud computing, at its core, is an operational transformation - mostly focused on infrastructure.
SPF13
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
Fri Sep 30, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Hybrid Cloud Computing. Traditionally ecommerce companies have had no place in the cloud.
IT Pros Rock!
MAY 10, 2011
In the first post of this series , I used Autoruns , Process Explorer and VMMap to statically analyze a Stuxnet infection on Windows XP. That phase of the investigation revealed that Stuxnet infected multiple processes, launched infected processes that.( read more
IT Pros Rock!
JULY 18, 2011
Aaron Margosis and I are thrilled to announce that the long awaited, and some say long overdue, official guide to the Sysinternals tools is now available ! I’ve always had the idea of writing a book on the tools in the back of my mind, but it wasn’t until.( read more
Sean Daniel
MARCH 29, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011. Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Intel vPro Add-in. As we announced SBS 2011 Essentials RTM this morning , I thought it would be interesting to also highlight a really cool add-in that allows you to not only view your computers, but if you have the Intel vPro chipset, you can also control power management of your PCs, right from your console with the Intel vPro add-in. The Basics of Local DNS for Small Business Server 2011 Essentials.
IT Pros Rock!
APRIL 20, 2011
In Part 1 I began my investigation of an example infection of the infamous Stuxnet worm with the Sysinternals tools. I used Process Explorer , Autoruns and VMMap for a post-infection survey of the system. Autoruns quickly revealed the heart of Stuxnet.( read more
SPF13
DECEMBER 28, 2011
Wed Dec 28, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Windows Power User Tools. m a huge fan of Windows 7. s the first time Iâ??ve ve ever run a Microsoft OS on my primary (home) machine. Â Iâ??ve
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MARCH 30, 2011
Though I didn’t realize what I was seeing, Stuxnet first came to my attention on July 5 last summer when I received an email from a programmer that included a driver file, Mrxnet.sys, that they had identified as a rootkit. A driver that implements rootkit.( read more
SPF13
JULY 8, 2011
Fri Jul 8, 2011. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Easy bash scripting with shflags. One of the most frustrating things about bash scripts is how challenging it is to create unix style executables. You know, the ones where you can pass in -h or â??help help and see the set of options for the program.
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