Coding Matters

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On rebooting and Zen

Zen: A form of Buddhism. Also used to describe a state of peaceful calm.
As the year winds down, the pace winds up. It leaves most of us feeling distinctly non-Zen. Jacqui talks about exorcising computer demons by rebooting, and what to do if you can’t reboot.

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Please don’t eat the toner

Darwin Awards: A tongue-in-cheek honor that recognizes individuals who supposedly protect our gene pool by dying as a result of their own idiotic actions. I didn’t know what to write about today. I’ve been focused on developing course material, and avoiding distractions. Then I had to run an errand. At

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Containers

A container is an executable software unit containing an application that has been packaged with the libraries and other dependencies it needs to run. Docker and Kubernetes are two technologies that are often referred to when we talk about containers.

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Becoming a sphynx

Exuviate: to shed or cast off a covering, such as hair, skin, feathers. A synonym for shedding. I’m referring to the sphynx cat, not the sphynx of mythology. I love cats, but even I admit that the sphynx breed is not pretty. Its claim to fame is that it is

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Virtual Machines and Hypervisors

Cloud computing relies on virtualization. Virtualization relies on hypervisors. Lewis looks at how virtualization and hypervisors work. He also explains the difference between virtualization and containerization.

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To err is not only human

Transcendent: exceeding normal limits. Every day we hear about some amazing new tech advance. From AI to the multiverse (whatever that will be), technology is changing our world. Science fiction is becoming science fact as we watch. It seems the sky is the limit. But actually the limit is much

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Introduction to Cloud Computing

For the last few posts we’ve been looking at some interesting aspects of floating point mathematics. There’s a lot more where that came from (which we’ll revisit at a later stage), but this week we’ll take a brief detour to look at something totally different. The other day I was

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