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A guided tour through Wazza Is Awesome, from software and automation to cloud, aquaponics, SMSF archive notes, and life after active duty.
This blog has been around long enough to have collected a few different lives. If you have just arrived, here are the main trails through the archive.
Practical technology
A collection of notes from years spent building, automating, debugging, and occasionally muttering darkly at software until it told me what was wrong.
- Simplify server access by using an SSH config file
- Whipping up awesome with Chef
- How to write and install an Ohai plugin, the Fight Club way
VBA and Office automation
Older, but still useful, solutions from the Microsoft Office automation trenches.
- Is that file open?
- Understanding the INDIRECT function in Excel
- Handling strings containing quotes in SQL
Cloud and infrastructure
Notes from the cloud years: billing, latency, Ruby, Chef, APIs, and infrastructure automation.
- Taking control of cloud billing
- Faster than a speeding byte
- A social cloud programming experiment
- How I learned to stop worrying and love the cloud
Aquaponics
The point where software brain meets water, fish, bacteria, and vegetables.
Historical SMSF archive
These posts are preserved as a record of what I was doing and learning at the time. They are historical notes, not current financial advice.
Life, retirement, and whatever comes next
The newer chapter. Less production incident, more Act V.