David Dickinson

From work

Oracle WebCenter — Inheriting the Unmappable

a collaborative working environment with serious access controls and document security

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When IT Stops Being Systems and Starts Being Strategy

There was a time when building a Linux server meant following a document.

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Making Networks Predictable

Being asked to document a DR solution that only half existed.

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Scripting the Network

Working in network engineering, there’s a point where scale starts to hurt.

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Building Linux Servers Before Automation

There was a time when building a Linux server meant following a document.

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What Counts as Disaster Recovery?

Being asked to document a DR solution that only half existed.

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Separating the WAN from the Core

There’s a point in most networks where everything ends up in the core.

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Making Redundancy Real

There’s a difference between having redundancy... and actually using it.

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Learning at Layer 1

I’ve always preferred to understand things by pulling at them.

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The Accidental SharePoint SME

I didn’t set out to work with SharePoint. I’d been brought in as an Exchange Subject Matter Expert...

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A year in Station Physics

What Nuclear Physics Taught Me About Debugging Systems

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