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Installing Redmine 3 on an Existing Ubuntu LAMP server
Note: This has been updated from its original post in 2015. I will be upgrading some Ubuntu 12 servers in the near future and will be deploying Redmine 3 (upgrading from 2.2). In order to prepare for that, and because…
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Automated Marketing Fail
As the world has become overwhelmed with spam, marketers are increasingly looking to tailor there message more to the recipient. It began years ago with including your target’s name, so that it appears you are receiving a personal message, when…
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Finding Shangri-La
Several months ago, UCSD extension assembled a group of senior IT professionals as an advisory board for their certificate programs in the IT space. One of the discussion threads was that software engineers (read programmers, business analysts, whatever) were coming…
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IT’s Role in Organizational Design
Enterprise architecture(EA), as a specific discipline, dates back to the late 80‘s. However, it has been very difficult for EA programs to gain much traction. Very often, the architecture program simply becomes focused on creating as-builts of existing applications and…
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Computer Science vs. STEM
The folks from Code.org posted something this morning that merits more than a standard Facebook response. They posted the following graphic: Then raised the question, is the government focusing too much energy on traditional STEM education, and not enough on…
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How the Cloud Is Allowing Computers to Realize Their Potential
Ever since the dawn of the computer age, we have been seeking a mythical computer utopia. A place where computers are truly an integral part of our lives and truly bring benefit to them. I’m reminded, to some degree, of…
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Sunspot, on my Servers, Makes me Happy
After a week troubleshooting Solr and getting it running on Ubuntu for a test version of the Limspec app, I think I am allowed the bad humor. I recently posted a summary of how I deployed a Rails application on…
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Deploying a Rails App to a Linux Server
Why? Recently, I’ve deployed different Rails apps to three different Linux servers from scratch. All three were virtual servers. Two were Ubuntu 12.04 servers using Apache. The most recent is a Debian server (version 6) running Nginx. Each server took…
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The Future of Cloud
Every time a significant shift in information technology appears, there is a period of extremes in response to it, where one minute everyone is really excited about the option and the next, an extreme pessimism sets in. Cloud computing appears…
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Cloudy with a Chance of Leverage
Today’s CIO journal published a piece doing a compare and contrast between the big 3 of cloud computing. There were several things of note, but one particular line caught my attention: “Amazon.com appears most willing to enter into customized agreements…