First and foremost, I want to express my profound gratitude for an amazing eight years at Sauce Labs. From 2016 to now, I’m extremely proud of what we’ve accomplished. I am grateful to have had the opportunity to build not just one, but two world-class teams during my time at Sauce, working alongside many others …
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Things Change. Some New content.
Once again it has been awhile. But I wanted to get some new content out. This year I was elected as a member of the board for WAA. Part of my time on the board will include writing articles for our membership. From the second I heard this I knew what I wanted to do. …
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VLOG: Things are Hard.
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The Lost Year: Back to Work
2015 was tough just no getting around it. Â I started the year working with an amazing team as the CTO of a company I really believed in and the COO of the company that was supposed to be my future. Â By the end of 2015, I had been through 3 jobs (all of my own …
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#WhoIS is BACK!
WOW it has been a long time. Â It has taken life and career changes to get me back to the point that I have been able to really think about picking this up again. Â I have had amazing feedback from the original audience and I am hoping to do even better for you al this …
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A Few Easy Steps: Cisco Switch, Setup IP Device Tracking
In this session of A Few Easy Steps, we will be setting up IP Device Tracking on a Cisco IOS Switch. In General this will work on any Cisco IOS switch.  Session Prerequisites: You have terminal or console access to your Cisco device. Session Assumptions: You have host devices connected to your switch Our goals of …
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What did you Expect? Part 5, Basic Error Handling.
In the first four parts of What did you Expect, we covered the basics of getting started with automating interactions for network equipment.  In the first few posts it was important have a networking environment that  was 100% stable.  The last thing I needed when I was trying to learn to use python to automate network …
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Money Where My Mouth is, Get Coding Giveaway
So lately I have been on a coding kick. Â More and more I believe that staying competitive in the IT space is going to require at least a minimal understanding of how to code. Â I know I am late to this game but I also know there are lots of other who are even further …
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Get Coding!
So lets start off with I am an old dog and I am learning new tricks. Â My entire career I have avoided the dreaded programing. Â In college I slid by my degree requirement for a coding class by taking Visual Basic for Industrial applications. Â I hated it. Â Debugging drove me nuts and there is still …
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Back to the basics. Installing Ubuntu Server 14.04
Back in 1996 when I started this game there were lots of things I had not done. Â Now days it seems like everyone I meet is 18, running service provider networks and writing code in all the hip new languages. Â That is not the reality of the world. Â The reality is that we all start …
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