A long time ago, when blogs were a thing, I made a script that pulled random snippets from random blogs and ran them together into one long and strange blog entry. I decided to resurrect that idea, only this time with tweets. I put together a quick prototype that pulls …

This is part 3 of a series of articles on Docker. Please feel free to read part 1 and part 2.

It's been a while since I last wrote about Docker. Part of that is because I took a vacation and drove back and forth across the country. My phone …

Hot on the heels of yesterday's post, I am going to address the one disappointment of that post. It installs an old version of docker! Let's celebrate Docker 1.0 by using Docker 1.0!

Really Painless on AWS

I have produced a new Cloudformation template: docker_server2.cfn.json which …

It's been a big week for Docker, a relatively new linux container platform. It's only Tuesday and they have announced a production ready release, have held their first conference and revamped their image index into the Docker Hub. Docker has also managed to garner support from Red Hat, Open Stack …

I've been doing some work on communication between our company's learning management system and salesforce so that we can tie a client's training into their customer and partner management systems. I had done a little work with salesforce in the past, mostly on accessing data via their REST API, but …

Next semester I’ll be doing a new course in computational simulation. I’m looking forward to the course and hope believe that it will be extremely useful for our physics majors who rarely do any programming. I am a bit apprehensive that it might mean a very heavy workload …