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Welcome to the 16th annual “Abir’s Favs”. The last of the twenty-teens! In the early years of the Favs, it was easy to pick 20 songs from albums I listened to. The hard part was narrowing it down to 20 songs! In the last few years, I’ve relied on old…

Welcome to the 15th annual “Abir’s Favs”. 15 Years! Usually I spend time arranging songs in a particular order, but this year I decided to put in a random order to make it more unpredictable and fun. …

About a year ago I created a module named pe_code_manager_easy_setup for automating the Puppet Enterprise (PE) Code Manager (CM) setup. It does the following things: create a user for doing deploys configure the PE Master node group generate a ssh public key generate a webhook URL It was meant to…

In this post I’ll be discussing 2 new Puppet Tasks that making deploying code to your Puppet Master much easier: pe_code_manager_easy_setup and code_deploy. Setting up Code Manager in Puppet Enterprise Setting up Code Manager in Puppet Enterprise can see a little daunting at first so I created a Puppet Task to automate the entire process. …

As a Sales Engineer at Puppet, I hear about large scale Microsoft Windows-centric environments all the time. Many of these teams use Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) for their source control. There is a hosted version of TFS called Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) that is a great alternative…

Everything old is new again. Every year I struggle to balance new songs from bands I love with new emerging talent. This year was particular hard because so many of my favorite bands of yore released long awaited new material like Wolf Parade, Fleet Foxes, and, of course, LCD Soundsystem…

I remember the first time I used ssh. We were told on campus that we couldn’t telnet into servers anymore (PS I’m old). I had no idea why at the time (spoiler: it was hackers). Hard to believe this was over 20 years ago, and I’m still learning new ssh…

This might be the year I have finally broken free from the chains of “white guy indie rock” (don’t worry, there’s still some in there). I also actively tried to put new acts on the list. There’s more salty language than other years so beware! Abir's Favs of 2016 by Abir K Majumdar on Apple Music Connecting to the iTunes Store.itunes.apple.com Justin Timberlake —…