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One Technology Missing from the Next Place To Be List

June 7, 2021 High Level Tech Intro SE Skills No Comments

Just before the New Year I published a short post about the next technology skills that will be big when it comes to employment. Recently I’m realizing there is one missing that I’d also suggest watching. That technology is Block Chain, or easier to understand by the name of Distributed…

Branding and Your Bot

May 28, 2021 Attitude Conversational AI High Level Tech Intro Message/Chat/Collaboration No Comments

Hungry, hours into a long drive, you scan each off ramp looking for a good place to eat. Think of two fast food logos. One that “will do” and one that “always hits the spot.” How do you feel seeing on the horizon the one that is just okay? How…

Raspberry Pi – Teaching Electronics + Programming in Large Virtual Events Part 2

May 13, 2021 High Level Tech Intro Raspberry Pi Startups No Comments

In Part 1 I covered a key overview of the additional items that can be used to do an interactive event where the participants get to work with both electronics and code on a Raspberry Pi. It needed to be firtst since there are so many options and many pitfalls. …

Raspberry Pi – Teaching Electronics + Programming in Large Virtual Events Part 1

April 23, 2021 High Level Tech Intro Raspberry Pi Startups No Comments

The Raspberry Pi Foundation was founded in 2009 to teach basic computer science. Inexpensive, standardized and versatile. If you are going to leverage them to teach electronics in a larger setting, especially virtual events, there are some best practices that will reduce friction, allow you to teach larger groups and…

How to Include a Raspberry Pi in a Remote Demo – Part 2

March 20, 2021 High Level Tech Intro Raspberry Pi No Comments

A few posts back I had an article on How to Include a Raspberry Pi in a Remote Demo. We just did another virtual event leveraging Raspberry Pis with more than 3 dozen attendees. and I’ve discovered a few more tricks I’d like to share. A minor one was the…

Slackware, Still Very Much Alive

February 28, 2021 High Level Tech Intro No Comments

A recent article at tecmint.com says that there are over 600 Linux distros (distributions). Of those 500 are in active development. If you aren’t familiar, a “distro” is a way of packaging up the Linux kernel with a set of applications. Different ones have evolved with different priorities and methodologies.…

When a 2% Increase in Cache Hit Rate Can Save You 20% in Data Center Costs

February 19, 2021 Analytics CDNs High Level Tech Intro No Comments

One of the key differences with Fastly is the ability to Cache the Uncacheable. You can programmatically purging content so fast that we even have customers caching API read calls. The cache holds onto content longer rather than passing to origin on “uncacheable” content. When the data changes, your system…

How to Include a Raspberry Pi in a Remote Demo – Part 1

January 30, 2021 High Level Tech Intro Raspberry Pi No Comments

Raspberry Pi single board computers have been around for more than 8 years now. They are great for IoT (Internet of Things), learning about InfoSec (Information Security), as a portable/inexpensive development environment or working into events to teach programming or electronics. When the time comes to do a virtual course…

Reverse Engineering a Linux Install

January 23, 2021 High Level Tech Intro No Comments

The Linux world is full of different package managers. Yum, Apt and others can make it complex when a solution doesn’t support a distro (distribution) you are already standardized on. If the option of compiling yourself is not available, the next option is to convert the available packages or extract…

VNC, A Quick Introduction

November 30, 2020 High Level Tech Intro Raspberry Pi No Comments

When I started in tech, the command line was everything. You’d telnet (gasp!) or ssh into different systems and do your updates, upgrades and configurations. More and more systems now have a UI now, and not everything can be done via web page. So how do you remotely (and securely!)…

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