From DevOpsDays NYC, an interesting presentation was given on anxiety working in IT operations. Given the stress of the job, the goal of the talk was to explain anxiety, identify sources of stress such as ongoing education and being oncall, and ways to minimize anxiety including blameless postmortems, checklists, on-call partners, and more. The last section of the talk gets … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2015
First look for ‘Steve Jobs’ movie
Steve Jobs starring Michael Fassbender as founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, will be in theaters October 9th. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeOxo7o9T8Q Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its … [Read more...]
Microsoft Hyperlapse now available in beta
Android and Windows Phone users will be able to check out Microsoft's Hyperlapse Mobile product. It gives you the ability to speed up your videos to change storytelling. You can see the demo in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twncW4PLdsY It is available in beta on Google Play, available for Windows Phone, as a preview on Windows, and with a free trial on … [Read more...]
Book Review: Exam Ref 70-688 Supporting Windows 8.1 (MCSA)
After reading (and reviewing) Exam Ref 70-687 Configuring Windows 8.1 (MCSA), I passed the first Microsoft certification exam required to earn the Windows 8.1 MCSA certification. Despite the problems I had with the book, the next in the series was one of the few resources available to self-prep for the 70-688 Supporting Windows 8.1 exam. After reading the book and from my own … [Read more...]
Firefox 38 and DRM options
Yesterday's Patch Tuesday brought Windows Updates and updates to Adobe Flash Player and Adobe Reader/Acrobat 10 and 11. In addition, Mozilla updated Firefox to version 38. Firefox 38 is the base for the next Extended Support Release and provided security and feature improvements including introducing HTML5 DRM support. Supporting DRM in HTML5 is not without controversy. Many … [Read more...]