I found a new thing to keep me busy. Writing clear and understandable articles for people in management level. These articles I will write for a specific purpose. Try to keep in memory how I explain managers with little technical knowledge how stuff works. My first article is published today. Not really production ready but it is a nice way to explain managers how stuff should be working and why.
In my experience people will understand things much better if you give them real life examples which are not directly related but are like the things we try to explain. Example: Network routing is like the logistics process inside a company.
You can find the link Articles up in the header. And I fixed my wordpress to show a nice table about articles I’ve wrote.
Hire a bunch of people which meet the following criteria:
- An old man, who is reaching his retirment, has redundant hearing devices and discovers in the middle of the project that his memory is failing
- An belg, nothing more to say
- A nice technical guy which doesn’t know really what the milestones are and what he is supposed to do
- A project manager from the other party who knows how to manage
- A project manager from internal who is to busy to keep track of the project all the time
Note: This is a bit sarcastic and not based on reality ^^
Still it is a nice thought that with a bunch of people described above you can reach nice milestones with lots of fun
Currently working for a company we decided to implement Fedora Directory Services as Unix Identity Storage. A nice LDAP server system with a nice interface. Not really useful in the beginnings, probably due to the lack of my own knowledge but it supports nice fail over and replication methods. Multi-master replication was easy to setup. Currently I only have problems with the directory admin server and SSL. It seems when I install the certificates the server is not longer responding. We need the SSL option to comply to the SOX standard.
Who has some experience with this?