Just finished up two days of finding out what's new with C++ (C++ 11) at GoingNative2012. You should view the rebroadcasts at that link.

Another quick Munin monitor script, this time for drupal 6 (since it works on the database itself, YMMV and who knows if it works on drupal7.)

In the last major chunk of work I did for Nokia, I was working with mongodb (one of the crop of NoSQL document stores popping up like mushrooms in the fall in New England) and, despite some serious warts, I was impressed with the value of an unstructured schemaless data store when working on a fluid prototype. I've been thinking ever since that drupal's data store would be a natural fit for something like mongodb. I wasn't alone.

As part of the new reality of working for Microsoft, I'm learning all the Microsoft ways of doing things. I'm in an Operations group doing very large operational things. The intersection of these two lines of thought are PowerShell and Perf Counters.

I use Munin to monitor stuff on the home network. Recently, I added a couple monitors - one is a simple web scrape for the new Boxee box that replaced the dedicated HTPC running GBPVR, the other for a Win7 VM (running under Virtual Box on my Ubuntu server, just like the CentOS image that drives this Drupal blog...) needed to run the Boxee Media Manager and also to stream content to the Xbox.

Just in case anyone reads this blog (doubtful) but isn't connected to me on LinkedIn, I've recently changed jobs. This follows a pattern for me of a long stint with a company, followed by a brief transitionary company, and then (hopefully, because I'm really liking this new role) a long relationship with a company. Sorry, Nokia, you were my rebound company.

Viewsonic rebranded a first generation Tegra2 Android tablet from Malat (the Zpad, more or less) and slapped a horrible version of Android on it.

Twitter in Drupal. It works. Simple. Well, sorta.

Why would you want NMEA logs from your iPhone? Well... it's a GPS. And you have it. And sometimes NMEA logs are handy...

Well, hello there. You may have noticed that the blog content is stale. A post a year just isn't enough, is it?