A Day in the Life of a Senior Linux Admin & Infrastructure ArchitectFollow along with one industry expert as he confronts the daily challenges that arise from various Linux implementations and infrastructure development opportunities within his company. With several years experience, this Senior Linux Admin & Infrastructure Architect is able to share unique insights and report on helpful solutions and tools to enhance your efforts on-the-job.Geek->Manager- March 24, 2004 If you've had good managers, think back to what made them good - think about things that you liked about them, that made them a good manager for you. Try and adopt certain of their traits.http://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/malach/geekmanag... Testing documentation.- March 13, 2004 Writing documentation is the first hurdle, but it's one we all know we need to do. But has your documentation been tested For a recent project, my team has been building a bunch of servers, and installing middleware applications of various types on them. We've gone the whole hog on source control - both config files and installation documentation are in SubVersion. What we haven't done so far is to test those config files and that documentation.http://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/malach/testing-d... Documentation Woes- March 4, 2004 One of the benefits of working with open source is the "release early, release often" principle - we get new software quickly. One of the founding principles of Unix applications is that they do one thing, and they do it well - if you want an application that combines the two, well, then you have the tools to do it.This leads to a problem - when you're using three quite new applications in conjunction, instructions on how to combine them to best effect can be rather lacking - you spend a lot ofhttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/malach/documenta... |