For those who do not know, I am one of the co-founders of the Florida Network Users Group, a.k.a (FL)NUG, which is part of the greater (US)NUA organization. We like to call ourselves the “Michael” group since all three of us are named Michael. We have had the pleasure of knowing each other for some […]
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Since joining Forward Networks, I have had the opportunity to present our platform in several different lights. When I presented at Security Field Day 10 in November, I always dreamed of being a delegate. I jumped that and went straight to the presenter, and this hit home for me, especially knowing what Tech Field Day
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I can only speak for myself, but I am most definitely a creature of habit. I am a self-proclaimed CLI junkie. A CLI junkie is a hard person to change in this world of cloud and infrastructure as code. Being this creature of habit, I am setting out on a journey to see – can
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Shortly after reaching my connecting airport from St. Augustine, I stared at Gate E7. Knowing this would be the longest flight of my life. Atlanta to Amsterdam: 8 hours in the air, “what’s Dutch for ‘I hate flying,” I wondered. Then, I crossed a whole ocean (uneventfully sleeping for most of it) and landed at
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Happy New Year to all my fellow blog readers! Welcome to my 2023 Year in Review! You may have noticed a few things changed around on the site. It was time to consolidate, and instead of managing several different technologies and having each site have its personality with no cohesiveness, I now have the entire
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I can honestly say that my career has been a whirlwind. Anyone to whom I have told my story and how I changed not only industries but completely changed career paths. I went from a Network Architect to a Solutions Architect to a Big-Four Technology consulting manager. I have left the technology realm and am
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In the last post, Python Project – Morse Code Encoder, we looked at creating a Morse Code encoder. The application works fine, but how can we streamline it? Let’s take a look at specific parts of the code base and see what we could do. The for-loop As a refresher, our code base from the
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I will start a new series on how to approach writing a Python application when you are given a set of parameters. With these parameters, we will step through how to write out the code, execute the code, troubleshoot the code, and see how we can refactor the code to make it cleaner and more
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As 2022 ends, I am reflecting on what the year brought me and what I planned on doing this past year. As with every year, you will have some days you want to remember, some days you want to forget, and some days you wish you could pass over. The most essential thing in this
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One of the questions I always get is how is it to road trip in a Tesla? I am not going to lie, but this was one area I was the most concerned with coming from an ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) vehicle. Most notably, my anxiety came around the range of the car, and I
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