AWS re:Invent - Day 0
Looking forward to connecting with the rest of #TeamSPS at #reinvent!
68 °F and the cab driver had the heat on. Opened window. #vegas
Hotel is pretty full so got upgraded to a suite. Nice digs.
Software Development
👍 #TeamSPS workshop day kicking off! Education, training and continuous learning are key to successful teams! Six sessions ranging from Agile, TDD, Platform overview, AWS, Git Workflow and Ansible!
If you are practicing agile methods, and haven’t revisited fundamentals in the last year, you’re probably doing it wrong.
Nice — #TeamSPS workshops continue with Mike Bjerkness presenting SPS CodeFlow.
Thank you to AWS Cloud for sending presenter to #TeamSPS workshop day!
Final session of #TeamSPS workshop day hosted by David Federlein giving depth on Ansible. SPS is starting to use Ansible for continuous deployment.
Rich Howard and Chris Bidler jamming on some code. #TeamSPS
Finally succumbed to WordPress Jetpack. It is pretty nice. 😕
Updated Dynamic Questy Captchas
A little over a year ago I shared a method of generating dynamic Questy Captchas for the MediaWiki ConfirmEdit extension. This method has been awesome for stopping registration spam on the thingelstad.com wiki farm and many other wiki admins have used it with success. …
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TextCaptcha looks like a nice tool. Trying it on one of my sites. Thanks @robtuley!
Restarting AWS MN
A couple of months ago Bridget Kromhout and I started talking about coordinating with the Twin Cities Amazon Web Services User Group organizers to get the meetup group going again. The first thing we did was change the name to something a bit shorter, AWS MN. We had our first …
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I’ve been planning to start working on using a configuration management solution for my hobby servers. Chef was too heavy for my purposes, and confused me a lot. I got really enamored with SaltStack, but never really caught onto it. I decided to give Ansible a go and actually …
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I’ve been running a MediaWiki farm at thingelstad.com for a couple of years now hosting about a dozen wikis ranging from small to very large. Running a MediaWiki farm is a bit complicated and you can approach it a number of different ways. I recently pushed the settings that I …
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