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London Ruby User Group:Is Your Sysadmin Dumber Than a Hamster?
Is Your Sysadmin Dumber Than a Hamster?
In this talk, John speaks about Puppet and Chef covering some or more of the following topics: "Why aren't sysadmins as smart as developers?", "How do you build 100 servers in a day?", "How to automate the dumb stuff", "Why it's quicker to do things more slowly", "How to convince your boss you need an automated infrastructure", "Why automation gives you staging and continuous integration for free".

ABOUT JOHN ARUNDEL
John Arundel is a systems engineer, consultant and owner of Bitfield Consulting.
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HTML5 Communication: Using Web Sockets and more to build real-time Web applications, HTML5 COMMUNICATION: USING WEB SOCKETS & MORE TOO
Object-Oriented ActionScript - Advanced, OBJECT-ORIENTED ACTIONSCRIPT - ADVANCED
Object-Oriented ActionScript - Beginners, OBJECT-ORIENTED ACTIONSCRIPT - BEGINNERS
RDFa The Theory and Practice of Structured Data Publishing, RDFA THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF STRUCTURED DATA PU
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Corey Haines:Software Craftsmanship Terminology, Software Craftsmanship Terminology
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Karl Widmer:Integrating JSF with Spring Web Flow, Integrating JSF with Spring Web Flow
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Rick Evans:Flex and Spring Integration:Introducing Spring BlazeDS Integration, Flex and Spring Integration
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Ian Robinson:Hydra and Hypermedia, Hydra and Hypermedia
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Paul Ardeleanu:Rails & iPhone Integration , Rails & iPhone Integration
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Alex MacCaw:Bowline: A Ruby GUI Framework, Bowline: A Ruby GUI Framework
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Murray Steele:Fibers in Ruby 1.9, Fibers in Ruby 1.9
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