Matt Zaske Online Blog

Performance Can Matter

• April 15, 2019
• tech, automation, inspiration

I've had this written down as a topic suggestion for some time, and to balance/counter my post a couple weeks ago regarding performance, there's absolutely another side to that coin.

Thoughts? I've had [more than] a few

• April 08, 2019
• lifestyle, personal, theatre

I survived!

Yup, three (very different) presentations in as many months. All a resounding success!

Does the Performance Matter?

• April 01, 2019
• powershell, tech, automation, mistakes, inspiration

Back around 2015 or so, I wrote a simple Powershell script which basically re-populates Active Directory (AD) group membership based on data procured from our central systems. Two primary AD groups in particular are synchronized to our print management system, PaperCut, which pre-provisions accounts and access so folks handling monetary transactions don't have to create accounts, etc.

It's Presentation Season!

• March 25, 2019
• tech, inspiration, automation

As I mentioned a month ago, I've taken the opportunity to commit to more speaking/presentation engagements than ever before, in an attempt to better inspire folks and do more technical evangelism. It just happens to be that I have three things lined up in as many months!

Auto-Transpose Data

• March 18, 2019
• tech, php, automation

Many years ago, an individual in our office retired and the position was not replaced. For several reasons, this was an appropriate decision: the landscape of IT and our localized service portfolio had, for lack of a better phrase, stabilized. Our team was more often innovating in ways involving or prioritizing partnerships over custom builds or infrastructure requirements. We were appropriately consuming centralized services made available as a commodity.

I Own You, Drupal View!

• March 11, 2019
• drupal, website, tech, mistakes

As I tweeted about in victory a week ago, I managed to finally get my Drupal taxonomy term view(s) to do what I wanted:

Auto-Generate OSD Computer Name

• March 04, 2019
• tech, powershell, automation

Last summer while re-designing and upgrading our primary task sequence for the "multi-user devices" in our fleet (computer labs, learning spaces, etc.), I decided to tackle what had become a bit of a perennial problem: device naming.

Hocus Focus

• February 25, 2019
• lifestyle, weather, personal, finance, reading

It's been a long last few weeks. Actually, make that the last month. At times it's felt impossible to focus. On anything. And there are many things:

We Have Liftoff!

• February 18, 2019
• website, tech, drupal

Liftoff.

Finally.

Aside from some style tweaks likely to come around, the underlying technical bits I've been ignoring or had on the list to address (looking at you, tag views) are now in place and working as I'd expect. There's a pesky bit I've ended up handling in a more manual sense, at least for the short term: content view by tags.

"Just Reload It"

• February 15, 2019
• website, mistakes, drupal

I needed to fix a library-level theme item. And since it's been a while since I last made a change like that (this was all before the original switch to the production Drupal instance), I couldn't remember if it involved uninstalling/reinstalling the theme...or simply clearing the cache.

So I chose the heavy-handed option. What could possibly go wrong, right?

WRONG.