Confessions of a Public Speaker

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: cleaning out the attic, transparency in companies, new RHEV release, and Packing for Mars by Mary Roach.

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That’s Dave on the right. * Lauren’s new article: Like Arduino? Miniaturize your project with TinyCircuits + EFY Times’ version, now updated to include a little attribution * Now use sound to levitate and do neat things with water * HT Dan Walsh: Learn Spanish using SELinux * Announcing New Amazon EC2 M3 Instance Sizes and Lower Prices for Amazon S3 and Amazon EBS * Amazon’s ‘schizophrenic’ open source selfishness scares off potential talent, say insiders * Amazon is a hornet’s nest of malware * Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malware-filled updates * Red Hat Summit sessions now live — 160+ sessions in 15 parallel tracks! * Gunnar tells us How APIs will drive agency PaaS adoption * RHEV 3.3 is now out! + Self hosting helps further Dave’s vision of Secure virtualization for tactical environments * Red Hat Storage adds new data protection features too * Robin Price and Ted Brunell get CAC enabled OpenSSH to push code into OpenShift using git! + See also: Dan Risacher‘s most awesome PuTTY-CAC * A Customer We Like: The Lockheed Martin Cyber Security Alliance * Gunnar’s version of AMSR: Hellekson Syndrome or “things fitting perfectly into other things” * HT Erich Morrisse: Cow tunnels are the subterranean part of Manhattan’s lost meat infrastructure * Michael Bay freakout lesson: there is no such thing as winging it * D&G Book Club + Confessions of a Public Speaker by Scott Berkun + Packing for Mars by Mary Roach * Jump to Android’s Quick Settings with a Two-Finger Drag * The Sims Changelog is amazing

Cutting Room Floor

  • Using sprintf() is a decision you can never take back
  • North Korea knows what’s up
  • Art sadly imitating life: A conference call in real life
  • Awesome infoviz: Google’s Music Timeline: A Visualization of 60 Years of Changing Musical Tastes
  • 16 Stupid Tech Job Interview Questions: Show Your Snark
    • Q: If you could throw a parade of any caliber through the Zappos office, what type of parade would it be?
    • A: I would return the money for the parade to shareholders.

We Give Thanks

  • Dan Risacher for making PuTTY-CAC, the constructive feedback, and being a good sport!
  • Dan Walsh for helping us brush up on our Spanish.
  • Robin Price and Ted Brunell for their CAC work!
  • Erich Morrisse for adding “cow tunnel” to our vocabulary.