The Manager's Path™

Two years and a half ago I accepted a position as an IT Manager. Before that I was working on different technology companies with positions like developer, devops, software architect and technical lead. Since 2013 also working on positions that involved different levels of management, always technical and working mainly with remote teams These are some notes about my learnings on the path to become a better manager (work in progress), personal experience and challenges ...

March 5, 2022 · 6 min · Mario Moreno

Intel Stick

On my last vacation, I took the opportunity to spend more time with my family, go to the beach, read some books and resume old software projects (and also start new ones..) On of those technological adventures included the opportunity to buy at a very good price an used Intel Stick I have to recognize that I didn’t know about their existence until I saw a picture in the marketplace and start to read about their technical specifications. Surely considering the form factor they seemed fairly good at release date (Q1 2015) but for 2022 they seem limited at least ...

February 20, 2022 · 6 min · Mario Moreno

Net Core Ubuntu Dev Server

Well, continuing with the series of post years in draft.. this is from 2018/2019. How to provision, setup and publish a .Net Core development server (Ubuntu 1804) in Azure VM Provision In this example I’m using Azure but the same steps could be applied to any Ubuntu 1804 server We will skip some steps here Home > Virtual Machines > Add In this case I have created a Standard B2s (2 vcpus, 4 GB memory) ...

October 31, 2021 · 3 min · Mario Moreno

Old Hardware Debian 9

This post have at least two years in draft mode. Does not have anything special, a short story and a list of command hope someone will find useful Back in 2019 I found an old laptop in my house LG S1 (Intel Core 2 duo from 2006) battery long dead but I conected it to AC power and it started. Originally shipped with Windows XP (and Vista Ready :)) Nostalgia + willigness to learn Golang => this post ...

October 30, 2021 · 3 min · Mario Moreno

Tips

The following are just some ’tips’ that helped me (and most of them are still helping me) in my professional career. They don’t pretend to be an exhaustive list nor absolute truths relevant to any situation and context. Also I don’t pretend to get credit as the ‘creator’ of these techniques, some (maybe most) of them could sound like just common sense for a lot of people. It is just a small compilation from mentors I was lucky to have throughout my career, articles or blog posts or even tweets that since several years ago I was particularly interested in and of course personal experience. We can maybe even don’t agree in some of them and that is fine, maybe in the comments section we can start a respectful conversation and in my case discover other points of view ...

October 3, 2021 · 20 min · Mario Moreno