John was invited by BYU to come and host a networking dinner on campus one evening this week. John brought along his wife and together they fielded questions from a table of current BYU students. He provided advice and suggestions on their career plans. He was very impressed by the caliber of students currently attending [...]

Novell recently held a global company Quality Summit. John was invited to provide a 90 minute session on testing and development tools. He opened up the session to several groups around the company to provide “teaser” demonstrations of tools used in their organizations. The session was labeled a great success.

Google’s current translation service has just gone a step further.  Not only can you translate text, or a web page, but now you can translate PDF files that are on the internet.  Simply enter in the URL for the PDF file and google will use it’s PDF->HTML conversion tools to convert the document to an [...]

I often let files sit around on servers that contain logs and other automatically updated information. I want to clean these up every once in a while. Linux, of course, offers a great way to do this. find $directory_to_clean -mtime +$days_old -exec rm {} ; This bash command will look in the $directory_to_clean location and [...]

Many of us have websites that look great on the computer monitor, yet wreak havoc on printers. CSS has a great way to make your content more printer friendly when it is needed. Take the following CSS code for example: <style type=”text/css”> @media print { #menubar, #navbar, #searchbar {display: none;} #wrap, #content, #comments {width: 100%; [...]

John attended at training on Novell’s latest ZENworks Application Virtualization product. He is now responsible for using the product in conjunction with Novell’s internal ZENWorks Configuration Management initiative that he spearheads.