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Dealing with Disappointment at Work
My latest article for Inc Magazine is now available, called “8 Ways to Deal with Disappointment in Business” It starts off a bit like this: Disappointment is inevitable in business. Everything can’t go...
View ArticleAPNs Logs on macOS
I originally wrote this back in 2015 as an article for troubleshooting APNs traffic on a Profile Manager server. But it turns out that troubleshooting push notification communications between macOS...
View ArticleEpisode 23: Live at Mac AD UK with Henry Stamerjohann, Éric Falconnier and...
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Effectively Wielding Political Capital
My latest Huffington Post article, “Effectively Wielding Political Capital” is now available at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/589f8d10e4b0e172783a9d1e. It starts a little like this: You do a...
View ArticleView The Content Of Files Without Comments In Bash
So I comment a lot of lines out in my /etc/hosts file. This usually means that I end up with a lot of cruft at the top of my file. And while I write comments into files and scripts here and there, I...
View ArticleBasic Bash Inputs
Recently someone asked me about accepting bash inputs. So I decided to take a stab at writing a little about it up. For the initial one we’ll look at accepting text input. Here, we’ll just sandwich a...
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Perfecting Your Sales Pitch
My latest Inc.com piece is up. This one focuses on perfecting your sales pitch. It starts as follows: It’s hard to make a sale if you have a lousy sales pitch. Delivering fresh pitches that allow your...
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Office Meditation
My latest Huffington Post article is available, at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/office-meditation-made-easy_us_58ab05f8e4b0b0e1e0e20dcc?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004. This one is on meditating in...
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Cookie Management With Curl
To tell curl that you can read and write cookies, first we’ll start the engine using an empty cookie jar, using the -b option, which always reads cookies into memory: curl -b newcookiejar...
View ArticleExport All Profile Manager Data Into CSV
If you fire up a connection to Postgres on a Profile Manager server, you can see a list of all the databases and tables on the server, respectively: sudo -u _devicemgr psql -h...
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Management: Transition Teams Aren’t Just For Presidents
My latest article for Inc, on building a management transition team (since you know, transition teams aren’t just for presidents) is available at...
View ArticleEpisode 24: MacAdmins Podcast on Episode 24: Physical, Digital & Emotional...
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View ArticleMapping New SQLite Databases
I’ve written about SQLite databases here and there over the years. A number of Apple tools and third party tools for the platform run on SQLite and it’s usually a pretty straight forward process to get...
View ArticleBasic Bash Functions
According to @johnkitzmiller, you can’t spell function without fun. So let’s have some fun! What’s a function? Think of it as a script inside a script. Define functions at the beginning of the script...
View ArticleEpisode 26 of the MacAdmins Podcast: Can’t Spell Functions Without Fun!
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View ArticleProgrammatically Grab Active DNS Servers On macOS
One of my favorite things about grabbing things with scripts is just how many ways (and sometimes how needfully or needlessly convoluted you can make them) to grab the same pieces of information. For...
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A few tips on working from home
My latest @inc piece is up, at http://www.inc.com/charles-edge/work-from-home-here-are-6-things-you-should-do-every-day.html?cid=search. It starts like this: Telecommuting is on the rise. According to...
View ArticleEpisode 26 Of The MacAdmins Podcast :: Public Speaking With Nadyne and John...
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Just a few tips on contract negotiations
My latest Huffington Post article is available at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/58c2eeeee4b0c3276fb7845c and starts off as follows: Whether establishing a business agreement with a client, buying...
View ArticlemacOS Logging Subsystems In A Gist
If you happen to be tweaking the macOS subsystems for logging, I’ve put them into a little python class. If you need it, find it at this gist:...
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