Monthly Archives: February 2017

The Foundry and Data Masking

Posted on February 13, 2017 by way0utwest

There’s a group at Redgate that investigates new ideas and products. They’re called the Foundry, and they do some cool things. One of those is work on data masking. They’ve got a whole section on the Redgate site. Check it … Continue reading →

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Moving Through Five Years

Posted on February 10, 2017 by way0utwest

I wrote the Five Year Plan in mid 2013. In it, I noted there was a prediction that IT departments wouldn’t exist in 5 years, meaning in mid 2018. That’s a year and a half away. Is that a possibility? … Continue reading →

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Opening the PowerShell ISE from Explorer

Posted on February 9, 2017 by way0utwest

This is a cool productivity trip, and one that I ran into by accident. I had heard that I could launch a command prompt by typing cmd in the address. That works, and it’s cool. It even works with ConEmu, … Continue reading →

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Why Devops? For Better Security

Posted on February 9, 2017 by way0utwest

The ideas of DevOps are a mixture of principles, ideas, recommendations, tools, processes, attitudes, and more. There isn’t any  one way to implement a DevOps process, and plenty of people have been working in what many would consider a DevOps … Continue reading →

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