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Hello Chuck. (My “Hello World” in iOS)

Little known fact about me right now is that I’ve started taking classes for Grad school recently.   I had the opportunity to take an iOS class as an elective right now which in my mind is killing two birds as the phrase goes.  I’ve wanted to see how this kind of development worked for some time.   All said I done now that my project is over I think Objective-C programming (I didn’t look into the…

Tiny router for a tiny lab.

I’m deep in a new build of lab systems right now (that’s going to have an awesome use soon), and I’ve implemented something I can’t help but share right away.    A good remote connection method to home is something I’ve struggled with forever.   It’s like taking vitamins.  You know you should do it right but you really don’t want to deal with it….

I used logmein (before they cut off the free…

VMware vCenter Operations data mining

*Warming – This is most likely totally unsupported and not how the product is intended to be used!

I’ve been working on a couple projects with vCOps recently (NO SPOILERS YET!) and came across something that was totally new to me that I wanted to share.   No internal secret sauce here either.  I found this via KB 2011714.

FYI – I’m not an expert on licensing, but I assume only the highest level…

Blog As A Service (Application Director + WordPress + Twitter + Cyclocross)

It has been a while since I’ve posted a full project, so here it goes.  Enjoy.  This time we have our first guest appearance in a super awesome software developer, cycling, and beer snob buddy @jrrickard, who I am doing a number of projects with these days & showcasing some of them in a booth at our employers internal Science Fair (It’s going to be rad.  And there will be pliny.)    How did I get…

Well all the other kids are posting it, so I guess I should.   I was tapped for a vExpert designation this year (probably for some of these mad science ramblings on the blog….just wait to see whats coming…)  I’m not really sure what this means yet but we’ll see!

Looks like companies use this as a marketing ploy to get people talking about their products.   I guess it works because there’s huge…

VMware vCO Port and Account Quick Reference

Maybe it’s just me… but I can never for the life of me remember the correct ports and accounts to use for each part of VMware vCenter Orchestrator (vCO).  If it happens to me – it’s probably happening to a ton of people out there.

I hope this helps!

This is current as of vCO 5.5

Port 8281/https  Appliance Page. Port 8283/https VCO Configuration, Default: vmware/vmware (or user vmwareand PW set…

Version control and vCO Revisited (vCO 5.5.1 released)

Recently I posted a walkthrough of using a 3rd party framework called vFLOWer to convert packages exported from vCO to text format such that a version control system like github can read.   Well, that was a waste of time….!    VMware just released a new version of vCO (5.5.1) with this functionality built into the product now!  Excellent.

There is a menu option on the package object to “Expand…

Using vFLOWer and GitHub to bring (better) version control to vCO

vCO has very basic versioning built into the workflows.  It works for simple mistakes from version to version, but isn’t great for cross environment and multiple developer use cases.  Enter the vFLOWer Toolkitmade by ByteLife.   They are a VMware Partner that built, what I think is, a BCDR solution using a lot of Orchestrator workflows.  When building their solution they found they really needed…

Evernote, Mac, Linux, command line……annoyances!

This has been been one of my absolute largest headaches working on an OSX in my daily work.   I use Evernote constantly.  And by constantly I mean i keep it all in there.   I have cooking stuff.  Toddler stuff.  Beer. Wine. School.  ToDo lists.   And that’s just the “Personal” stack.    If there’s something I don’t want to forget, I paste it in there.

Problem is when you do a lot of CLI work on…

DINNER AS A SERVICE – Electronics

This post is part of project I’m calling ‘Dinner As A Service.’ Posts: Overview Electricity Costs Electronics 

(This post is entirely on the hardware side of things so if you only care about my software ramblings, these are not the droids you are looking for.)

Since physical computing is an area I really have no deep background in, as with most of my projects that involve it, I owe quite a bit of…

Dinner as a Service – Electricity Costs

This post is part of project I’m calling ‘Dinner As A Service.’ Posts: Overview Electricity Costs 

I…

JAAS Project Lake Placid – Dinner as a Service – Overview

Software: VMware vCloud Automation Center VMware vCenter Orchestrator Raspibrew

Hardware: Raspberry Pi

First Look at Philips Hue

I’ve been keeping my eye on the Philips Hue device for a while and I finally picked one up.  I am…

JaaS Project Madison: vCO Details

Project Madison Page    Main project page

Here’s an outline of the vCO Workflow.  I mentioned in…

JAAS Project Madison: VM AutoWake /w RFID

Hardware: Parallax RFID Card Reader /w cards (Radio Shack 276-212) Raspberry Pi (Adafruit 998) Pi…

This page will be the main page where I link to all upcoming projects I will be building.    Expect much much more detail here over time….

Background:   I travel a good amount in a new role I moved into this year.  With the travel, I’ve picked up running…

Bitcoin Web Services with vCO: Part 1, Coinbase

In the past I’ve done adhoc perl and php scripts scheduled via cron to do random duties.  I want to…