Allow only Cloudflare IP’s using iptables & ipset
Firstly, apologies for the hiatus. The last few years has been insanely busy for me on a…
Engineering
Collaboration and innovation in 2014
As those of you who know me personally can attest, i’m never particularly enamoured with the phrase – “Thats just what we’ve always used”, or “Thats just how its been since i started”. Im a firm advocate of the Winston Churchill quote “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” and yet I feel that a lot of companies fail to do this.
A lot of us in IT like to reminisce about “Oh wow, 2.5″ floppy drives – I bet you dont even know why there isnt a B drive in Windows do you?” (Or worse still with the older generation – “Oh VAX was the best..”), instead of looking at the drawbacks which led to the eventual demise of these technologies. I feel the same can be said for email; its so engrained in corporate culture that no one has actually thought to product analyze email itself – in terms of:
Slack and IRC
As part of my Slack evangelism I’ve been hellbent on trying to integrate as many products I/we use into the aforementioned tool, to test out where the limit is on what this awesome product can do. Next on my list of things is IRC – that old warhorse. Opsview has a large number of users on IRC, yet I continually forget to start my IRC client after reboots, etc meaning i miss out on all the useful questions, comments and other items that our community have to offer.
JIRA Agile and Workflows
Workflows After my post yesterday on JIRA Agile and Hipchat using post functions on workflow transitions, I…
Integrating JIRA Agile and Hipchat
Recently, I came across Hipchat as a user had created a way to send Opsview notifications into…