Configuration Management Tool Comparison

2021-02-25 Dave

As part of my masters, I did my thesis on comparing a collection of the most common configuration management tools on the market for speed of execution, cost and ease of implementation. What I’ve detailed below is a summary of the findings I made, and if you’re interested in the learning more about the test framework, conditions and low level detail, please feel free to download the full thesis here. Continue reading

remove.bg

This is a ridiculously useful site for removing backgrounds of images, handy for blog posts for example!

Ps4 Camera as Webcam

2021-02-18 Dave

I was recently asked to go to an online video chat and I wanted to do it on my main desktop for a few reasons but I don’t have a webcam for this machine. After a bit of brainstorming however, I remembered that I do have a camera for my PS4 and when Sony announced the support for PS5, they allowed people to claim an adaptor for the camera to make it USB 3. Continue reading

twitch.tv/mastermndio

If you’re looking to learn practical DevOps/SRE stuff, this guy is fantastic.

Kimera Project UML

2021-02-08 Dave

During the Christmas assessments of my masters, I had spent several nights in a row sitting at the computer desk doing my work when I sat down for another night of work. As can and does happen frequently, I found it very hard to get into the right mindframe to get work done and ended up on twitch looking for distraction as part of my procrastination. I came across a modder named Tsunamods who was working on a series of mods for Final Fantasy VII for the PS1 (aka my fave game of all time). Continue reading

Test Automation Tech Test

2021-02-03 Dave

I’ve been involved with interviewing candidates for tech roles for years at this point and have interviewed college graduates up to senior management, in Ireland and outside, virtually and face to face. I generally really enjoy meeting people and have refined the interview techniques I have to try and ensure candidates are as comfortable as possible but one thing I’ve spent a lot of time tweaking is gauging technical ability. I’ve delivered paper based tests, multiple choice code questions and whiteboard activities and with all of these, the common factor is just how abstract the tasks are and how unrelated they are to typical day to day activities. Continue reading

“What gets measured, gets managed.”

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