Diversity and Inclusion Things Raleigh Chamber Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Conference 2019 On August 9th, 2019 I attended the Raleigh Chamber Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Conference for 2019. More information about the event can be found in the link above, including the event's agenda. The
Indigenous Issue Synopses Lumbee Recognition Change of Status On July 25th, 2019 Governor Roy Cooper joined the Lumbee Tribal Council at the Lumbee Tribal Administration Building in Pembroke, NC to sign Senate Bill S218 into law. The new law amended the
Software Things Reasons Why Employees Should Be Using Professional Emails I've been working with lots of non-profit organizations lately, volunteering my time and technical abilities to help them solve problems with technology and I noticed that most of them are allowing employees and
Indigenous Issue Synopses Another Native American First: Molly of Denali on PBS Kids I haven't had much time to write about things lately, but I wanted to point this out :DAlaska Native girl leads animated kids TV show in US first"Molly of Denali" is the
Indigenous Issue Synopses Let's Talk about the Declaration of Independence Yesterday was July 4th, Independence Day, in the United States of America. It is a federal holiday that commemorates the Declaration of Independence of the United States on July 4, 1776. On that
Indigenous Issue Synopses A few recent Native American "Firsts" Happy Friday!With the announcement of our first Native American US Poet Laureate earlier this week, I wanted to highlight that and a few more Native American "firsts" that were recently accomplished (in
Indigenous Issue Synopses Google Doodle: Celebrating the Jingle Dress Dance Did anyone notice the Google Doodle last Saturday? If not, check it out! It was pretty awesome of Google to celebrate Native American culture in what seems to be an unsolicited post (there
Diversity and Inclusion Things NC Chamber Workplace Diversity & Inclusion Conference On June 13th, 2019 I attended a conference on Diversity and Inclusion put on by the NC Chamber. It was a one day conference from 9:45 AM to 3:00 PM. More
Indigenous Issue Synopses Happy Pride Month! In celebration of Pride Month, I thought I would provide some information about the intersectionality of the Native + Indigenous and Pride communities, specifically about the views of Two Spirit/LGBTQ+ people in the
Indigenous Issue Synopses 2019, International Year of Indigenous Languages and a Beatles Cover Song January of this year started the International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL). This project started back in 2016 when the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed that 2019 would be the International Year of
Indigenous Issue Synopses 95th Anniversary of the Indian Citizenship Act A quick note about the Indian Citizenship Act, and some related legislation to learn about.
Indigenous Issue Synopses 188th Anniversary of the Indian Removal Act Yesterday, May 28th, is a significant date in history of the United States with regards to Native Americans. On May 28th, 1830 President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law which
Software Things Hello World! #firstpost on the newly implemented Ghost blog.If you're curious, I'm self hosting on a Digital Ocean Droplet from here.
Software Things Tomcat can't bind to unprivileged ports, thanks SELinux This issue recently arose on the tomcat users list, so I thought I would write up a quick blog post about it to make the solution a bit easier to find on the
Software Things How To Install and Test RPMs from a Koji scratch-build This document outlines how to test scratch builds of Tomcat for Fedora Rawhide. It is pretty basic, but the steps below allow you to go from scratch-build to installed RPMs pretty quickly. These
Software Things Building The Tomcat RPMs Locally with rpmbuild Ever wondered how to build the tomcat RPM locally? Well you’re in luck! This post will detail how to build the tomcat RPM locally using rpmbuild and the Fedora tomcat package. This
Software Things Getting Started with Embedded Tomcat The purpose of this post is to help you get started with embedded Tomcat, and will cover the following:Starting a new Mavenized Tomcat projectDeploy a simple servlet to the embedded Tomcat processCreate
Software Things Exploring Amazon AWS - Documentation Links I just wanted to capture some of the observations and documentation that I think are useful for continued exploration of AWS (specifically S3, EMR, and Redshift). Here are some notes broken up by
Software Things Amazon Web Services S3 Review PurposeTo review Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 in order to understand the service better.Questions/Statements to researchBelow are a few questions/statements that I am interested in knowing more about regarding S3.
Software Things Amazon EMR Experimentation with Web Logs PurposeThis post is to document the work that I am doing with the AWS Elastic MapReduce (EMR) tool. I will be recording some benchmarks and general notes about my experience with EMR.The
Software Things Using Apache Flume for Log Ingress? I wanted to evaluate Apache Flume for the ingress of some web server access logs to get a feel for how Apache Flume works. In this post I will go over some of
Software Things Data Virtualization Cache Notes When to use caching:Query performanceLoad optimization – to minimize load on the underlying system.Consistent reportingSource availabilityComplex transformationsSecurity – to allow users to see aggregate data and still keep them from the ability to
Software Things AWS EMR Notes - Recommended Languages PurposeThis post is meant to capture my notes on research, testing, and recommendations of differing Elastic MapReduce (EMR) programming approaches (languages/architectures) for a list of use cases.Sample use cases to researchHere
Software Things Setting up a Small Hadoop Cluster PurposeIn this blog post, I have captured the work I did in setting up a small (four node) Apache Hadoop cluster and have documented it in a manner that makes it easy to
Software Things Configuring PDI for Use with Hadoop 1.2.0 PurposeIn this post I have captured my work configuring Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) for use with Hadoop. It is formatted as a tutorial on how to setup PDI 4.4 with Hadoop 1.
