#Projects I’ve been busy, but haven’t been posting a lot of material here. Better than last year, but let’s see if we can do better here in 2Q. This quarter I’ve beend working on a mix of projects. I started...

This is a guide to recovering data from a Seagate Central NAS. This is based one experience recovering data from a 3TB NAS. The problem was that the network hardware had failed while the disk remained intact. The first step...

Off to a bunch of goals for this year, the first being to get into a blogging habit. I’m going to try to take on projects I can write about here. For my first, I’ve launched a post today on...

We are currently using AWS as our Elastic Search Provider. Rather than allowing this service to be open from anywhere on the internet, we have used security groups to protect it and allow it to only accept traffic from our...

I’m taking some time off before the end of the year to spend some time with my family, but also to scratch the itch of taking care of a couple of projects that I’ve had in mind for awhile. Some...

I wrote a HipChat plugin in go based on this article. I’ve had an itch to try go, but haven’t had many opportunities. I figured this would be a good place to start by transforming it to something that...

So I started this in January and then got completely swept up in the year. Let’s try and get on track to blog more in the last quarter. I was doing pretty well through January and February but March got...

Over the holidays I read a blog post where someone was answering how they are so productive and the response is they don’t want to waste a week. So every week they work on something that moves them towards their...

Writing is a good way to think through problems. It provides a guiding force for organizing a thought and getting into a coherent format. It creates a vector to inform others of the thought process you work through and the...