General Ramblings

Intent now compiles itself Back in February I wrote about Intent.

What if programming languages were designed for AI, not humans?

Back in 2021, I had an idea.

"Do you work with [insert latest tool here]?"

This is the final post in our five-part series exploring practical implementation of the SPACE-SEA framework.

This is the fourth post in our five-part series exploring practical implementation of the SPACE-SEA framework.

This is the third post in our five-part series exploring practical implementation of the SPACE-SEA framework.

This is the second post in our five-part series exploring practical implementation of the SPACE-SEA framework.

Following the introduction of the SPACE-SEA framework, many discussions with Solution Engineering leaders have centered on one key question: "How do we put this into practice?"

When I was leading Solution Engineering teams, I found myself grappling with a fundamental question: How can we most effectively measure success in the presales phase?

Something amazing happens when we expand how we measure SE success we discover the true magic they bring to our organizations.

Let's talk about the unsung heroes of technical sales - Sales Engineers.

Presales Engineers are known by many names, including, but not limited to, Solution Engineering, Solution Architects, Sales Engineering, and so on.

As I walked into the AWS Summit in Berlin, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation.

As a manager at a startup, you know that stress and creativity are intertwined.

DNS in a multi-cloud world As companies transition to multi-cloud deployments, creating a common way to deploy solutions has become a requirement, this is also easily achieved by using Terraform to create your immutable infrastructure.

The getting started guides for using Terraform with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) https://cloud.google.com/community/tutorials/getting-started-on-gcp-with-terraform All suggest using code like this to provide credentials 1// Configure the Google Cloud provi…

I have been trying to build a site with Meteor and have slowly started getting stuff working.

I was looking for a way to tidy up out photos on the NAS at home and have tried a number of things that just did not fit the bill. they were either just to difficult or completely wrong. i then stumbled upon this blog post http://falesafe.wordpress.com/20…

I am currently helping a customer migrate from Novell to Microsoft and they are using the Quest migrator product to move their data to new DFS servers.

I have uploaded some images of the new UI so you can see what it looks like without installing it.

A while ago Alex (so_solid_moo to the IRC channel) created a php binding for the Bongo API.

This is an account of Thursday the 29th of September 2011 when my cynical view on Londoners only thinking of themselves and not wanting to get involved with other peoples troubles was blown completely out of the water thanks to some really amazing people…

I recently had to move hosts and guests to a new vcenter server as the old server had become corrupt and full of issues.

This blog is a follow on from a blog post I wrote ages ago and have eventually got round to finishing it off In this part of the process we will create the disks and setup the DRBD devices First we need to connect to the Virtual Machines from a terminal s…

I was struggling with an install of ESXi on a cisco 6509 switch where the management and VM LAN connectivity worked just fine but for some reason the SAN NFS VLAN just did not want to communicate with the Nexenta on that VLAN.

I am busy working on a contract with a company that is implementing a 10G network for their ESX cluster.

This post should have been written quite a while ago as I wanted to start documenting my efforts to learn to program using Ruby.

The Bongo-Project needs to be renamed Now before you fall of your chair or swallow your phone while reading this let me explain why.

Creating a Two Node Mysql Cluster On Ubuntu With DRBD To create this cluster you will need 2 ubuntu node servers installed as follows.

I have for some time now been wondering how many people actually use Bongo.

I have just upgraded to 11.2 from ubuntu 9.10 on my IBM / Lenovo T61 laptop. ( I will post a better blog about that later) What I wanted to mention here is that the current vMware workstation 6.5.3 does not want to run on my system.

I have great news about the images on the rPath system.

I have been trying to get the latest 0.6.1 release of Bongo onto the rPath images.

I have been working on the images in the Suse Studio environment as I mentioned in my blog post here.

Over the weekend I was able to have my mobile contract changed and part of the deal is that I get an HTC Hero.

You will be able to see from the poll archive that the following OS versions seem to be more popular Ubutnu 9.04 (53.0%, 19 Votes) Debian 5 (39.0%, 14 Votes) CENTOS 5 (28.0%, 10 Votes) openSuse 11.1 (22.0%, 8 Votes) Fedora 11 (19.0%, 7 Votes) I will now s…

Reflection Originally uploaded by lhaig This was taken in the Sandringham Estate.

[ Forrest Picture Originally uploaded by lhaig Just trying different things out.

Walking Path Originally uploaded by lhaig Trying to create a meandering path composition

Reflection in water puddle Originally uploaded by lhaig Reflection of some trees in a puddle

Prehistoric Originally uploaded by lhaig It almost seems some prehistoric monster should be jumping up soon.

Wood for the trees Originally uploaded by lhaig was trying to get both the near and the far in focus but failed.

Passing Time Originally uploaded by lhaig Wooden clock on the roof of the building at the Sandringham estate shops

Wooden Slats Originally uploaded by lhaig Trying to create a good composition to learn more

In flight Originally uploaded by lhaig This was a lucky shot while I was testing different filters on the 300mm lens

New Growth Originally uploaded by lhaig A new shoot of a fern I found in a patch of sunlight

Light Originally uploaded by lhaig I liked the way the sunlight shows all the lines in the leaves

I am about to embark on the epic journey which is Bongo packaging on the OpenSUSE Build Service.

For quite some time now we have been using the rPath rBuilder system to create images for the project.