Current Rig (This is an update of what I used to use. I have ditched the Beachtek adapter, though it might still be useful in some situations, and the Rode VideoMic, ditto.) Camera I am still faithful to the Canon Vixia models, though I’ve finally made the switch from tape to memory cards. (Which I am… Continue reading How I Shoot Video in 2015
Category: what I do
Marketing Your Tech Talent (at OSCON)
In early 2013, I submitted a talk to OSCON entitled “Marketing Your Tech Talent.” It was turned down, but soon after I was honored to have it accepted for Monktoberfest, where it was well received. I was amused and flattered that, as soon as I finished the talk, Laurel Ruma jumped up to congratulate me –… Continue reading Marketing Your Tech Talent (at OSCON)
The Place for Me
On June 16, I became an employee of Ericsson, the Swedish telecom multinational, following Jason Hoffman (above), the founder who had originally hired me into Joyent in late 2010, and was until last September the CTO and my direct boss there. You might also like: US healthcare: hazardous to your health My Career Evolution from Tech Writer to…… Continue reading The Place for Me
Metrics Workshop at LISA13
At USENIX LISA`13, Brendan Gregg led a Metrics Workshop, along with Narayan Desai, Kent Skaar, Theo Schlossnagle, and Caskey Dickson. “This was an opportunity for many industry professionals to discuss problems with performance metrics and monitoring, and to propose and discuss solutions.” More details from Brendan here. I filmed the day, above is a playlist of… Continue reading Metrics Workshop at LISA13
What I Did at Joyent
I started working at Joyent on December 1st, 2010, as the Director of Training. My task was to lead the creation of three levels of training materials: for end users of the Joyent public cloud for customers who were buying SmartDataCenter and using it to run their own clouds for systems integrators and others who… Continue reading What I Did at Joyent