The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford is an interesting book to stumble upon. I was able to pick it up a few months back when it was offered for free on the Kindle and finally got around to reading it this past week. The book is a novelization about a company's IT department in the thick of it. The company has not been doing well, missing quarterly … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2013
“I’m told my IP/e-mail/website is blacklisted, now what?”
It's no fun when you are told you (or a client) have ended up on a blacklist. It may be an IP address, a domain for a website or e-mail addresses, or something more general. Landing on a blacklist might mean clients running filtering software won't be able to visit your website, for example, if your domain was being marked as hosting adult content. If you land on a blacklist … [Read more...]
Google Analytics Solutions Gallery
Google Analytics is a powerful tool for any website owner. It provides data on site visitors like how they found your site and what pages they were interested in. Making the data useful requires looking at reports and finding connections. The tool provides a lot of those reports already. To be able to see those insights at a glance, you can create a dashboard with different … [Read more...]
Microsoft by the Numbers in Live Tile format
Microsoft created an infographic using the Live Tile format from Windows 8 and Windows Phone. Each cell talks about Microsoft and its various products like Windows, Xbox, Skype, Outlook, Office, and others. It covers the number of customers for a product, the amount of downloads, and so on. It's interesting to see and learn about Microsoft in this interactive fashion. You can … [Read more...]
Using Google Chrome to create a kiosk
A recent task that came across my desk included the sysadmin side of setting up a public-use kiosk. The web developers would handle everything regarding the kiosk experience but it was my responsibility to ensure the environment was secure and controlled. The web developers preferred to use Google Chrome to allow them to use more HTML 5 functionality and better transitions … [Read more...]