Review The Visible Ops Handbook by Gene Kim is a good, short read at 112 pages that can get you up to speed on DevOps methodology with a leaning to towards ITIL practices. It breaks the process of introducing DevOps practices change management into your organization into 4 phases to ease their adoption. Unfortunately, …

I've decided to start this blog by introducing you to books that greatly influenced my career and I think that you will find useful in developing your career as well. Methodology books have taught me important lessons that have contributed greatly to advancing my skills and productivity. I hope that they do the same …

Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual by John Z. Sonmez Purchasing items linked to by the article give the site a small affiliate reward and helps us keep the lights on. The Book Soft Skills is a book for software developers that isn't about software development. This book fills in the gaps in life skill …

Introduction I'll show you how to use Trello to take control of your scrum-based projects. Trello is a popular online project management tool with a number of extensions that enhance its capabilities. What is Scrum? Scrum is a framework that is a flavor of the Agile methodology for software development. In classic …

Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland. You'll get an overview of how the Agile methodology called Scrum works and examples of how it can be applied in this book. After reading this,Scrum became my preferred method of satisfying customer requests. The book also shows you how Scrum …

Management Overhead Last year, I noticed that I spent a lot of my time on managing my finances. I moved and changed jobs twice. I created Gears of Geek domain and changed my primary email address. Each time that I made these moves, I had to update my financial accounts with the new information to ensure that …

What is a Virtualized Home Lab A virtualized home lab can give your career a boost by enabling you to learn how to install, configure, operate, and maintain cutting-edge technologies that are in demand in the IT market. A home lab is combination of hardware and software used to learn how to install, configure, operate, …

Private Internet Access(PIA) is a great Virtual Private Network(VPN) service, but it does have some shortcomings that necessitate workarounds. One of those is where a Windows 10 PC/VM may connect to the Internet before PIA has established a secure VPN connection. To work around this, we're going to configure Windows to …

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