Getting started on Shibboleth
Shibboleth, as defined by shibboleth.net, is "a standards based, open source software package for web single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries". If [...]
AuthorDavid Ackerman
The tech behind the music part two: Virtualization
In the last post, we talked about how the shift from analog to digital tools revolutionized the way we can edit audio. Now that we’re able to create a digital model of a piece of gear, how about an entire room? [...]
The tech behind the music
The idea of being able to create entire recorded songs from scratch, similar to the ones I heard on finished albums from my favourite bands, has always fascinated me. [...]
Modular Configuration with Chef
As a developer doing systems administration work, you're probably going to be reading a lot of online tutorials to figure out how to [...]
Lessons learned from ChefConf 2012
"YOU are actually the best person in the world at solving your problem. There is no one better than you at solving the [...]
Canadian OpenStack Users Group starts to hit its stride
Cloud computing has enabled a lot of people to experiment with web technologies who may not have tried them before due to the [...]
Open source and the art of improv at TEDxEdmonton’s first Salon Series
It probably took less than a minute for TED.com to win me over when I was first introduced to the site in the [...]
Apple’s cloud-based textbook is the future of learning
Apple's new textbook ad really makes me want to be in high school again. …okay, that might be a bit of a stretch [...]
From Rails to Grails: Dependency Management
In addition to being easy to rhyme, Groovy on Grails also shares a lot of the Ruby on Rails development philosophy, so my [...]