Life is a State of Mind » work http://blog.scottnolan.org ideas, thoughts, rants Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:19:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Website launch for Neustar http://blog.scottnolan.org/2009/07/22/website-launch-for-neustar-2/ http://blog.scottnolan.org/2009/07/22/website-launch-for-neustar-2/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:03:33 +0000 snolan http://blog.scottnolan.org/?p=1500 For those who have been wondering what I have been up to since I got laid off at Project Playlist, some of the results are public now. This morning we launched a new, interim, corporate website for Neustar. I am not responsible for the content, just part of a team that deployed it to production as part of Neustar’s new corporate branding. Now we are working towards re-deploying that branding and content but with a Content Management System (CMS) called eZ Publish (open source, but with optional commercial support). I am pretty impressed with eZ Publish so far, it looks like a very modular set of Apache, MySQL, and PHP components with an impressive set of features that allow your designers and word smiths and editors to all have different work flows that can be merged to produce a common website with revision controls and previews before deployments. Nice. No need to spend your life maintaining Drupal anymore. Drupal is a fine first stab, but the never ending maintenance will kill your support staff.

neustar.biz

]]> http://blog.scottnolan.org/2009/07/22/website-launch-for-neustar-2/feed/ 0 Good Day at Work http://blog.scottnolan.org/2008/10/08/good-day-at-work/ http://blog.scottnolan.org/2008/10/08/good-day-at-work/#comments Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:51:41 +0000 snolan http://blog.scottnolan.org/?p=850 Got to help an old friend get set up at work today, as he is starting as a contractor.

Also got to use the rpcinfo, fuser, umount, killall, and mount commands again for the first time in nearly a decade… I love me some UNIX-foo, but NFS still sucks (though it fills the void).

Built more Xen virtualized opensuse 11 servers on top of opensuse 11 on HP Blade servers; fun, fun, fun.
Did I mention how much I loath MSIE and HP for making certain iLO features only work in MSIE? At least that part is short and most of the work can be done from command line and Firefox.

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