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Unable to import an AD/Windows CA certificate into AWS’ ACM … fixed

Posted on October 21, 2021October 21, 2021 by wally

If you’re reading this, you’ve probably spent the last day of your life despairing as me and my colleague have during the last 24 hours. The problem definition is a seemingly simple one: we have some resource on AWS (in our case, an ALB) to which we want to apply an SSL/TLS certificate. Rather than […]

Dipping my feet into home security

Posted on July 25, 2020 by wally

Sadly it seems every day (most certainly correlated to the COVID-19 pandemic) there are more reports of crime in the villages surrounding where I live. Of particular concern for me, dog thefts. A few years ago I was surprised by Mrs H’s interest when I floated the idea of a Ring Doorbell. (I will be […]

How do we start with DevOps?

Posted on July 2, 2020 by wally

Is your team or company trying to get started with DevOps, but stuck feeling overwhelmed? I’ve gathered some of my hints and advice for you and your team to get started on the DevOps journey over on LinkedIn.

Is it time for “Choose Your Own Device” (CYOD)?

Posted on June 20, 2020 by wally

I’ve posted over on LinkedIn an article asking the question: “Is it time for Choose Your Own Device?”. Spoiler-alert! I really think it is. Let me know what you think!

George Floyd, 1973–2020.

Posted on June 7, 2020June 8, 2020 by wally

Until writing this, I have made no public reflection on the death of George Floyd, the continuing situation in America (and by extension the UK and so forth), or the trending topic of whether black lives matter. Update: It has come to my attention that there is a subtle but crucially distinct difference between stating […]

What can technology delivery teams learn from SpaceX’s Demo-2?

Posted on June 1, 2020 by wally

Read my article over at LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-can-technology-delivery-teams-learn-from-spacex-demo-2-hall While watching the Demo-2 SpaceX/NASA launch on Saturday, I started to develop a number of lessons that technology delivery teams can learn from this historical event. I’ve started with 10 lessons, which you can find over on LinkedIn.

Ubiquiti networks – Unifi-ing our house…

Posted on May 17, 2020May 18, 2020 by wally

Prologue. So, I finally broke. It was one too many WiFi drop-outs on a day when I just really wanted to be able to watch a TV show without having to fiddle. And I guess that’s where I should start. 10 years ago, our house would be “far from normal”. It’d be modern, edgy, technologically […]

What actually is the Bible? (pt 5 – God’s message)

Posted on April 13, 2020April 14, 2020 by wally

We left off the last section saying we’d look next at how to protect against heresies and controversy. Spoiler alert! I am about to argue that the single most important thing a true Christian can do here is know how to handle scripture correctly. This is another enormous topic – so as in all the […]

What actually is the Bible? (pt 4 – Kidneys.)

Posted on April 12, 2020April 14, 2020 by wally

In the previous part of this series we looked at three major translation theories – and looked at the complexities of translating even a simple word such as “flesh”. A few times I’ve found myself in a discussion around how ‘Pauline’ missionaries (like New Tribes Mission) handle translating words into very rare languages (like those […]

What actually is the Bible? (pt 3 – Bible Translations)

Posted on April 12, 2020April 13, 2020 by wally

At the very start of this series I said we’d answer three questions: What actually is the Bible itself (the “canon of scripture”)? Where does it come from? How is it in English? What is a Bible translation (what we have in English today)? Does our choice of Bible translation matter? Is there one “perfect” Bible translation […]