Just released. I had the privilege to work with Ryan Troy for both the original and for this second edition of VMware Cookbook. With scores of step-by-step solutions, this cookbook helps you work with VMware ESXi in a wide range of network environments. You’ll not only learn the basics—how to pool resources from hardware servers, computer clusters, networks, and storage, and then distribute them among virtual machines—but also how to overcome the stumbling blocks you’ll encounter when you monitor systems, troubleshoot problems, and deal with security. This expanded second edition covers recent advances in vCloud Director and vShield cloud security.…
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ITWorld just posted an article I wrote outlining how I fixed a broken wireless card driver after an Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10 upgrade.
As many of you reading this already know, I am a writer. I write for a living. I write technical documentation, books, occasional articles for magazines and websites, and more. The books in this post have been helpful to me primarily in technical writing. Style guides exist to help writers reduce the number of decisions they must make as they write. This simplifies the complex task of writing technical documentation, at least a little, by eliminating many of the questions that a good writer must ask. Should my directions use the word “click” or “open” when referring to using the…
The first half of my hair disappeared about two months ago. Most of the rest left today. I visited a barber for the first time in about 5 years. Hope you like it. I do. It was time for a change and this one feels good.
I am the sole editor and contributor of new content for the just-released Ubuntu Unleashed 2012 Edition. This book is intended for intermediate to advanced users.
This just in: http://www.amazon.com/author/matthewhelmke.
Until yesterday, my hair was very long. It had grown down well below my shoulders. I cut it so that my hair can be made into a wig for cancer patients who have lost their hair as a result of treatment. There are many ways you can do this; I chose to donate via the Pantene Beautiful Lengths program. Here are a few pictures that my daughter took. These are thumbnails, click to view a large version.
There should be a blog called There was a meeting about this where every post shows something that was approved, created, and marketed but which causes normal people to scratch their heads and wonder why in the world this thing exists.
Everyone is talking about HTML5 and CSS3. If you believe the hype, they will change how web development is done while feeding the world and creating new opportunities for people everywhere to enjoy a new era of peace, love, and rainbow-emitting unicorns. Obviously, I’ve been around long enough to be a skeptic. That said, I do want to keep up on standards and trends, if only to keep my work from causing me embarrassment and to prevent having to do more work than necessary (by having to perform updates soon after code is written). With this in mind, I picked…
An article I wrote for InformIT titled Ubuntu Unity: A GUI for Beginners and Experts just posted.