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About a decade ago in a fit of pique after my old drupal site got hacked, I just rm -rf'd the whole server and all it's backups. At the time I had moved on from Drupal and the Drupal community and was busy with the Spry Group. Recently, I started thinking about what is next in my career. I decided I want to start looking for a senior technical executive role. When I started reviewing my online presence... I was not impressed and began regretting having trashed my old drupal site...

At Spaceage.tv , we needed an update server for an Electron app using Squirrel. Our goals were to be able to use Github to manage our releases in our private repo and minimize our infrastructure and operating costs. We reviewed the existing options.

I have been looking for a good admin UI for GitHub pages. Static sites are great until you have to hand them off to a non-developer. Then hilarity, confusion, and frustration ensues.

For some reason clients want to know when their projects will be complete so they can plan for their business. As a project manager I normally want to know if the team's performance is changing and how it's changing so I can better support the team and troubleshoot operational issues.

An issue I run across quite often is side by side deploy of click once applications. I decided to open source one of the click once targets files I work with to help other developers and systems engineers clean up their .NET deployment pipelines. Check it out ClickOnce.targets on GitHub... Fork it and help me improve it if you've got the time.

One of the first things I did when establishing The Spry Group was choose a bank account. I didn't put a lot of thought into it. I chose TD Bank for their relatively low fees, long hours, and free ACH transfers. Unfortunately, TD bank no longer has free ACH, they don't integrate with my online accounting system Xero.

Today, I started working on converting the Spry Group website to Drupal. The current site is a static site which we rather hurriedly tossed up while starting the business to at least have an online presence. We've been wanting to add some contact forms and blogs and update the content to reflect the direction our business has taken since we started the adventure.

One of our clients was looking to move from RightScale to Chef. Their primary motivation was the difficulty of maintaining the RightScale scripts and the costs related to RightScale.

Join the ImageScale.co Private Beta. Around the beginning of the year I ran in to Benjamin Melançon of Agaric . We got to talking about ImageCache . In the course of the conversation Ben suggested that I build ImageCache as a service.

I've head a lot of FUD regarding Windows 8 and the Metro UI. It seems people are primarily frustrated by the removal of the old start menu and the promotion of the new MetroUI as the primary interface on the desktop. I have to agree that the Metro UI being a bad choice for me as a developer or for most of the business users I work with.