• http://patrickgibson.com/utilities/virtualhost
• https://github.com/pgib/virtualhost.sh/

sudo virtualhost.sh kermit.dev

cd ~/Sites

mv kermit.dev kermit.dev.old (yes, you could just go ahead and remove it)

ln -s ~/code/projectname ./kermit.dev

The Governor made stops across the state Monday signing the bill designating 50 counties as “Rural Opportunity Zones”. All 50 counties have seen population loss over the past year, most of them in the double digits.
Under the bill, people moving to the zones from out of state will not have to pay state income tax for five years. There is also an incentive for college students. Graduates who move to one of the 50 counties could get reimbursement for as much as $15,000 in student loans. (source)

Which I found interesting due to growing up in Kansas.  Of course there wasn’t a list of the counties there, but there was one over here:

Barber, Chautauqua, Cheyenne, Clark, Cloud, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards, Elk, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Greenwood, Hamilton, Harper, Hodgeman, Jewell, Kearny, Kingman, Kiowa, Lane, Lincoln, Logan, Marion, Mitchell, Morton, Ness, Norton, Osborne, Pawnee, Phillips, Pratt, Rawlins, Republic, Rooks, Rush, Russell, Scott, Sheridan, Sherman, Smith, Stafford, Stanton, Thomas, Trego, Wallace, Washington, Wichita, Wilson and Woodson.

which doesn’t list the county I grew up in…grand.  Finally, here’s the map I produced (via 2010 Census data) that finally puts this in perspective (at least for me):

Then all you have to do is a  sudo pip install pil and it works.  Finally!

via ChartPorn (information visualization site)

• “I’m used to thinking of the computational unit as the data center“
• “Then probably this manual keeping track of threads with locks is not going to scale, what we need is something closer to the functional type of approach…”

Click here to view the embedded video.

Wikipedia:

A Worker bee is any female eusocial bee that lacks the full reproductive capacity of the colony’s queen bee; under most circumstances, this is correlated to an increase in certain non-reproductive activities relative to a queen, as well. Worker bees occur in many bee species other than honey bees, but this is by far the most familiar colloquial use of the term.

Now, when I hire, I prefer ninjas.  What’s a ninja?  Where the hell have you been?  Kansas? There’s a freaking ninja standing behind you right now.  Let’s punt and go with Wikipedia again:

In Japanese history, a ninja (忍者 ninja?) is a warrior specially trained in a variety of unorthodox arts of war. These include assassination, illusion, espionage, and variousmartial arts.

Ok, that sounds bloody violent (yay?).  Ok, let’s do the old switch-a-roo and convert that into work-speak.  Assassination?  That’s just getting the job done…really well.  Illusion — that’s being able to brief a client effectively (no, I’m not saying lie, I’m saying that the best briefings typically have some story time element that presents a benefit to the client).  Espionage?  That just means they’re aware of the environment.  Martial arts?  That’s the core of their job and they *are* good.

Maybe you are in fact running an assembly line and you don’t think you need ninjas.  Maybe you’re right — you’d use a robot if you could, but you don’t and you’re got people.  Now tell me what it costs to refer to your employees as ninjas (denoting some skill) or worker bees (denoting the sheer monotonous work of it all). Yes, that’s right, it costs *nothing*.

There’s a ninja in your IT department reading this right now.