Category: Opinion
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The epic fail of Microsoft, Verizon and dead on arrival Lumia 950/950XL
It’s Tuesday, December 8th, 2015 and in the United States, we still have this stupid arrangement within the mobile phone industry with infrastructure cartels also known as carriers. On the other end of the mobile industry is the mobile phone manufacturers. Somewhere the two meet and that’s where consumers get the “privilege” to live –…
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The Zen of Deployment Automation Retrospective
Every now and then, I’m asked by one of our Octopus users: “Sometimes we need to change one or two files. Can I just deploy one or two files?” It’s at this point, I place my elbows on my desk and put my head in my hands. And I thought I was bad at letting…
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Octopus Deploy 3.0 details emerge
For months, I’ve been anticipating Octopus Deploy 3.0. The details have been slowly emerging over the past few months dating back to late November 2014 from several blog posts from the Octopus team. Each post has revealed some detail about the upcoming changes and technical details behind 3.0. Looking back on all the blog posts, I found…
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The Zen of Deployment Automation
I work with a lot of users using our Octopus Deploy server on a daily basis. It seems that not all, but many of our users don’t fully grasp the philosophy behind automated deployments so I thought a rant was in order. If you’re using Octopus Deploy or even thinking about implementing it, Octopus is indeed a…
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Thoughts on Octopus Deploy 2.6
Now that Octopus Deploy 2.6 was just released, I feel I can publish some of my opinions on it. I installed the pre-release on my Azure instance weeks ago just before Thanksgiving and I’ve just upgraded to the official release (2.6.0.778). Even though 2.6 is a minor update, it is a game changer. Changes listed on Octopus Deploy 2.6…
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Initial thoughts on Octopus Deploy 3.0 – from RavenDB back to SQL Server
This is pretty big news for any Octopus Deploy users. Paul Stovell has hinted a return back to SQL Server over the past few months in blog posts and uservoice forum comments, but from the public view, it’s all speculation and rumor until otherwise official. This weekend, Octopus made it official – version 3.0, they’re moving…
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Backup master class: no attendance required
In October of last year, I ranted about Joel Hruska’s article at ExtremeTech about his “Backup Master Class” article on RAID. After reading the whole series of articles I realize Joel was expanding on his recent data loss experience. Now his articles have given me context. While I heavily criticized his article about RAID, his…
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The PC is not over; it's just changing very, very slowly
For the past year, I’ve been reading numerous opinions of how the PC is over. My first PC experience was well over twenty-five years ago so today I find the supposed demise of the PC extremely hyperbolic. I find tablets and smartphones as specialized extensions of PCs so you’ll excuse me if I don’t buy…