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Create a Github Repository from Local Work

I’ve seen this question a few times online:

How do I move my local development code onto Github?

It’s very common from IT Pros who are new to Git and new to coding in general. A very fair question indeed! The situation is normally that they have been hacking away on their laptop then down the line want to move it to Github, to share it and get all DevOpsy :)

Here’s the simple recipe, and I…

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Real World ITPro AWS Cloud Good Practices

Two years ago is a long time in technology. Back in February 2014, Rich Adams took the time to write down what he thought was good about what he’d learned and wished he’d known when he’d started with @awscloud:

Moving from physical servers to the “cloud” involves a paradigm shift in thinking. Generally in a physical environment you care about each invididual host; they each have their own…

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Five Tell-tale Signs You're a 20th Century IT Pro

Five Tell-tale Signs You’re a 20th Century IT Pro

In the 20th century I spent five years studying computer science and six years working in the IT industry, mostly in banking technology. The following sixteen years, let’s call it the other three-fifths of my career so far, landed in the 21st century.

I marked the century tick-over over on New Year’s Eve, 1999, in a datacenter in Scotland preparing for the Year 2000 meltdown that never was. The…

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ITPro Beware Three Issues With Pizza-as-a-Service

Back in 2014, Albert Barron of IBM started a cloud-meme called Pizza-as-a-Service. Like all good memes it was visual, it was a metaphor, it involved my favourite food, and it simplified something was annoyingly confusing in the industry: what is the difference between rolling your own cloud, IaaS, PaaS and SaaS?

Albert’s clever idea was to like the similarities between these cloud service models…

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Davos on Platforms: The Visible Secret of the Digital Disruptors

I’m not a member of the World Economic Forum so I couldn’t attend the 46th annual meeting in Davos this year. I missed the previous forty-five, too :) However, thanks to free digital platforms like youtube.com I can still see the content without all that bothersome networking with CEOs and world leaders.

My favourite session was Davos 2016 – A New Platform for the Digital Economy. The panel…

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#airbnb #cisco #Davos2016 #MIT IDE #Second Machine Age

An IT Pro Guide to Accessing Analyst Reports For Free

If you are an IT pro, a developer, a manager, an executive, hell just about anyone in the industry then you need to get independent views about what’s happen in the technology industry. The best way to do this is to read what the analysts write, but they are expensive and you don’t have an account: so what do you do? In some cases you can get access to the reports via the vendors in the market…

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AzureStack to Deliver Hybrid Cloud Coup de Grâce

For the past five years now, Microsoft has been quietly building what might be the best answer for Hybrid Cloud in the form of Azure Stack. Many non-cloud technology vendors have talked long and loud about Hybrid Cloud but none of them agree with each other, there being dozens of “Hybrid Cloud Reference Architectures” out there in the wild. Throughout this period Hybrid Cloud has increasingly…

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Convergence to Divergence to Convergence?

On-premises converged infrastructure solutions have become a multi-billion dollar industry whilst the cloud industry has gone global and into the hundreds-of-billions dollar business. This leaves companies and their IT practitioners with diverging answers to difficult strategic choices. The real answer for them might be not one or the other, but both if the company can create their own…

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10 Ways To Expand Your Influencer Zone With Twitter

Your family listens to you. Sometimes. Your work colleagues listen to you and they help you, but they don’t buy from you. Your key clients are already listening to you. These groups make up your comfortable influencer zone of stable social relationships, but Robin Dunbarsaid that is a maximum of approximately 150, depending on the size of your brain! So how do you influence outside of that number?

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Community First for Influence Marketing

Influence marketing is a method to create communities that help grow your business. Great staff and great companies do this informally and naturally, but with a method to help you can delight customers and they will return the favour by recommending your company.

At ViewYonder we use influence Marketing as part of our ViewYonder Community methods, here I’ll explain how and why it’s a sure-fire…

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