Easter Eggs and Software Design
Happy Easter, if you celebrate such things, and Happy Sunday if you don’t. Filled with the kind of happy optimism that can only be brought about by flashback-triggering visions of an oversized rabbit who excretes […]
Ramblings
Pointing The Thwack Spotlight At, uh, Me
I’m very flattered to share that I was selected as a subject (victim?) for this month’s Solarwinds Thwack IT Blogger Spotlight article. It was fun answering a few questions about blogging, and thinking about why exactly […]
BOGOF on Packt Publishing eBooks
As you may recall, I have done some technical reviewing for the folks over at Packt Publishing, for Chris Welsh’s GNS3 Network Simulation Guide and Jesin A’s Packet Tracer Network Simulator guide. Packt offers guides […]
Are Younger Engineers Dumb? Part 3
It’s time to wrap up my thoughts on the question raised in this series of posts. If you haven’t already ready them, please do go back and check out what came before now: The original […]
Are Younger Engineers Dumb? Part 1
In my last post I put on my finest slacks, put in my teeth, and questioned whether the “youth of today” understand a dang thing about networking in any kind of detail below the concept […]
Grumpy Old Man – Youngsters Today
I’ve interviewed many network engineering candidates over the last few years, and one theme that keeps on coming up over and over again is a total lack of understanding of what I consider to be […]