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# Moving

Don Harper

2015-06-12

Well, after 4 years (almost to the day), it is time for me to say good-bye to HP. The team I worked on is a great team who really know their stuff. However, I am a geek, and I want to be doing things with tech, and not talking about tech,, and for the most part, talking is all I have been doing. I have learned a lot and was given a chance to do some traveling which I do not think I would have been able to do.

So, where am I going? Well, until after I start and get on-boarded, I am not sure how much I can say. It is a financial company based in Houston, so I will not be moving the crew, just changing the direction I commute back to into the sun again.

Stay tuned here for more updates, and I will probably be using this as a place to document some of the new things I learn on the way.

Peace.

# Updates to AUR packages

Don Harper

2015-06-09

So, with the migration of the AUR to version 4, I looked at the 12 AUR packages I had created over the years which I have not looked at in a long, long time.

The list started out with:

- chronicle - A simple blog compiler written in Perl
- perl-leocharre-basename - Very basic filename string and path operations such as ext and paths
- perl-leocharre-cli2 - Some quick help for writing cli scripts
- perl-leocharre-debug - Debug subroutines
- perl-leocharre-dir - Subroutines for general directory needs
- perl-leocharre-strings - Combines string procedures I frequently use
- perl-string-prettify - Subroutines to cleanup a filename and or garble for human eyes
- perl-wordpress-api - Management of Wordpress API objects. Inherits WordPress::XMLRPC and all its methods
- perl-wordpress-cli - Command line access to Wordpress
- perl-wordpress-xmlrpc - API to Wordpress XML RPC calls
- usbmount - Automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices
- xlhttp - An Excel spreadsheet (.xls) and PowerPoint (.ppt) to HTML converter

In the end, I only kept xlhttp as I do not use the others anymore. Surprisingly enough, only one of the packages (chronicle) was out of date. I disowned all the others, so if you want, you can pick them up.

# Vegas, again

Don Harper

2015-06-06

Once more, off the Las Vegas for to work a trade show. This year, I was helping present training, so I was tucked away in a basement most of the trip, and did not get out to do much in the way of sight-seeing aside from walking around the hotel.

But, I did find time to snap a few pictures.

# Quick Ansible Tip

Don Harper

2015-05-27

This is a quick post to capture something seen. Ansibel is a configuration management tool that I have been learning recently. More details in a future post. This is just to capture this idea:

> From: Smith, Chris (Big Data)

> To: ansible

> Ansible Galaxy is a centralised Github repository of public Ansible content, see: https://galaxy.ansible.com/ It uses a local routine that is installed when you install Ansible, called ‘ansible-galaxy’, to create a blank template for your Ansible content. What is not well known is you can run ‘ansible-galaxy’ in offline mode to create a blank template using the command:

> # ansible-galaxy init --offline my-role

> Enjoy,

> Chris

More on this as I get some more back-ends stuff taken care of, like setting up a git repo and maybe auto-deploy from git push?

# April recap

Don Harper

2015-05-03

April has come and gone, and I did not manage to find time (or energy) to post anything.

I spent most of the month at work getting ready to and then delivering some training remotely in Nashville, TN, US. Now, I can say that I have stayed at the largest non-casino hotel in the world, The Gaylord Opryland. Now that that is over, I get to gear up to design a new training plan for internal product training. Such is the life of a Linux guy stuck working for a marketing group.

On the home front, we have hit a busy time with soccer, volleyball, dance, and swim time. I think we get a break sometime after the 4th of July.....