March 2019 Archive
It's Presentation Season!
- March 25, 2019
- 4 minutes
- tech, inspiration, automation
As I mentioned a month ago, I've taken the opportunity to commit to more speaking/presentation engagements than ever before, in an attempt to better inspire folks and do more technical evangelism. It just happens to be that I have three things lined up in as many months!
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- March 18, 2019
- 4 minutes
- tech, php, automation
Many years ago, an individual in our office retired and the position was not replaced. For several reasons, this was an appropriate decision: the landscape of IT and our localized service portfolio had, for lack of a better phrase, stabilized. Our team was more often innovating in ways involving or prioritizing partnerships over custom builds or infrastructure requirements. We were appropriately consuming centralized services made available as a commodity.
Read MoreI Own You, Drupal View!
As I tweeted about in victory a week ago, I managed to finally get my Drupal taxonomy term view(s) to do what I wanted:
Read MoreAuto-Generate OSD Computer Name
- March 04, 2019
- 5 minutes
- tech, powershell, automation
Last summer while re-designing and upgrading our primary task sequence for the "multi-user devices" in our fleet (computer labs, learning spaces, etc.), I decided to tackle what had become a bit of a perennial problem: device naming.
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