As part of my journey as a software engineer and architect, I’ve also written several articles, written a book and recorded several videos teaching others how to use technology to (hopefully) become better developers. Here are links to a selected few recent items.
Seven Tips to Help Your Company Succeed in the Cloud
An article written in collaboration with Dice.com (my employer) and the Linux Foundation. This article talks about a few things we learned while moving the entirety of our Dice.com infrastructure to public cloud hosting.
Vagrant Virtual Development Environment Cookbook
A book written in 2015 introducing readers to Vagrant, with tips on starting with Vagrant, using provisioners and installing software on Vagrant machines. Along the way, I also discuss creating custom plugins and packaging boxes for others to use. This was a book published by Packt Publishing and is available in a number of different formats and from many different vendors.
Learning Puppet
This is a series of video training that I recorded for Infinite Skills (now part of O’Reilly Media) in 2015. The video series takes a beginners look at writing and testing code in Puppet 3.
Learning Git
Another video series from InfiniteSkills / O’Reilly Media on using Git source control software. This is another hands-on video series where I demonstrate some basic operations using Git; including basic cloning, editing, branching and merging.
Computational Literacy
Several publications under the heading of “Computational Literacy”; a four year study funded by the National Science Foundation that attempted to measure differences in student outcomes by engaging students in computational science: methods for applying numerical (quantitative) methods to learning topics that have traditionally been taught qualitatively.
