This year, SolarWinds started publishing a video series called “Geek Memories”, where the Head Geeks and other IT Professionals share flashbacks from their past, moments which defined or exemplified their geekiness and…
#BlogElul Day 29: Return
RETURN is one of the most basic of all constructs in IT. Whether you are a programmer, sysadmin, network engineer, Virtualization architect, or something else, there is an almost 100% likelihood that…
#BlogElul Day 28: Give
If you work in IT, there are a few things which I know are true about your job even if I’ve never met you: You are busy. You have enough work for…
#BlogElul Day 27: Bless
As I’ve been writing each day this month, I’ve come back repeatedly to the idea that – if you choose a career in IT – it is important to find a niche…
#BlogElul Day 26: Create
A couple of months ago, SolarWinds held their 4th ThwackCamp – a completely free, completely online conference. In the keynote, Head Geek Patrick Hubbard spoke to an interesting dichotomy in the life…
#BlogElul Day 25: Intend
There is a popular saying about the road to hell. It may equally apply to the road that leads to a system outage. If we intended to back up our servers, but…
#BlogElul Day 24: Hope
“Star Wars: A New Hope” (which at the time was simply called “Star Wars”) came out when I was 10 years, 1 month, and 21 days old. Like many 10-year-old boys at…
#BlogElul Day 23: Begin
In my essay “I Wish Someone Had Told Me” I talk about getting started in IT, and how at the beginning, you are just all over the place. You are pulled into…
#BlogElul Day 22: End
If you have ever written even a single line of code, you have also probably done “it” – the program without end. The infinite loop. Hopefully it was just to print out…
#BlogElul Day 21: Love
In IT, there are jobs, there are careers, and there are passions. Back in 2006 there was a guy in my monitoring team, a 7 year veteran of IT who had made…