James Farrell

I am a long time UNIX system administrator and open source advocate. In recent years my primary focus as been on Linux & FreeBSD systems administration, networking, telecom, and SAN/storage management. I love building infrastructure, tying systems together, creating processes, and bringing people together in support of their technical efforts.

When I can, I try to contribute back to the open source projects either with patches, or by helping others in technical support forums.

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Programming keyboard.

Learn Tcl/Tk and Wish with this simple game

Here's an easy coding project to get you started with Tcl/Tk.

An introduction to GNU Screen

Learn Expect by writing and automating a simple game

Code a "guess the number" game in Expect. Then, learn the real power of Expect with a separate script to automate playing the game.

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Learn Tcl by writing a simple game

Explore the basic language constructs of Tcl, which include user input, output, variables, conditional evaluation, looping, and simple functions.

JavaScript in Vim

10 ways to advance your JavaScript journey in 2021

JavaScript is a super-popular language, as evidenced by the 10 best JavaScript articles from 2020.

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10 ways Ansible is for everyone

Expand your knowledge and skills with the top 10 Ansible articles plus five news summaries from 2020.

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A handy utility for creating Raspberry Pi SD card images

Getting started with Raspberry Pi Imager on a Mac.

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James Farrell

JamesF

17 Jan 2021

4 DevOps books to read this year

Great list, thanks! I'll have to pick them all up this year for sure.

James Farrell

JamesF

10 Oct 2020

Code your first algorithm in Scratch

ah the ][gs, I also had a ][c ... great times!
No scratch in those days. Lucky for me my school happened to have a 6502 assembler book I could use to crash my ][c out of basic and hand enter assembly opcodes for some real fun.

The did have a reasonable Logo back then that was also fun to play with.

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