Turning 60: The Curtain Opens on Act IV
During this past Halloween weekend, I was in a Montréal pub with my friend, Marc Guenette, celebrating the second half of my birthday travels and rooting for the Toronto Blue…
Homelabbing #3: Adventures in Ruby
Ruby is a 30 year old programming language designed and developed, primarily, by Yukihiro Matsumoto. It is a scripting language, meaning that code is interpreted vs. compiled. It is my…
Tech Corner: The Crux Web Application Server
Back in the early 2000s, blogs were becoming a thing and WordPress was becoming quite popular as a blog software platform. It was some time in 2004 or so that…
It Lives! (Homelabbing, Part Two)
This was the Day of Nerves. My biggest fear as a software guy is bricking, or rendering useless, a piece of hardware. I’m several years (decades?) removed from my PC…
Adventures in Homelabbing, Part One
So, what is homelabbing? While I really don’t like the verbing of nouns and the nouning of verbs that seem to be the current norm among advertisers and English speakers,…