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Liveblogging: Senior Skills: Python for Sysadmins

Why Python?

- Low WTF per minute factor – Passes the 6-month test (if you write python code, going back in 6 months, you pretty much know what you were trying to do) – Small Shift/no-Shift ratio (ie, you use the “Shift” key a lot in Perl because you use $ % ( ) [...]

Panel: Tech Women Rule!

I am moderating and liveblogging the Professional IT Community Conference panel called Tech Women Rule! Creative Solutions for being a (or working with a) female technologist.

One point to keep in mind: The goal is not equality for equality’s sake. The goal is to have a diverse range of experience to make your company/project/whatever [...]

Liveblog: Mentoring: It’s for everyone

Liveblog of the Professional IT Community Conference session Mentoring: It’s for everyone

Ways to learn: Audio Visual Kinetic (doing it)

Everyone learns differently, but most people learn with some combination of all these three.

However, you can also learn by training [that's the truth, I learned a LOT by writing the book, even things [...]

Thoughts on PICC

I haven’t been to many IT related conferences. I was fortunate enough to go to a LOPSA run event, the Professional IT Community Conference(PICC). It was a conference for sysadmins, run by sysadmins. Most of the other conferences I have been to have been run by vendors and most of the content was marketing [...]