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In this very special episode of the PowerShell Podcast, we sit down with two legends of the PowerShell world: Jeffrey Snover, the inventor of PowerShell, and Don Jones, bestselling author, teacher, and longtime PowerShell community builder. Recorded live at the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit, this conversation is packed with personal insights, impactful moments, and the kind of storytelling that only Snover and Jones can deliver.  Key topics in this episode include:  The origin stories of PowerShell and how Jeffrey and Don's paths crossed at a pivotal moment.  The evolution of PowerShell as a scripting language, community, and ecosystem.  The importance of storytelling in tech, from teaching to team-building to leadership.  The shift from individual contributor to leader and how both hosts navigated that path with intention.  The power of community: real stories from users whose lives were changed by learning PowerShell.  Career advice for the next generation of IT professionals and community contributors.  Along the way, we hear hilarious stories from the early days of PowerShell development, honest reflections on growth and failure, and powerful reminders that vulnerability, repetition, and kindness are core to success in any career. Whether you're new to PowerShell or a long-time community member, this episode is a true masterclass in leadership, learning, and legacy.  Bio and links:  Jeffrey Snover is the inventor of PowerShell, Microsoft Technical Fellow, and a legendary figure in the IT and DevOps communities. With a background in distributed systems, Jeffrey led the development of PowerShell to revolutionize system management and automation on Windows. Known for his visionary leadership and storytelling, Jeffrey has played a pivotal role in shaping modern IT practices. His work continues to inspire technologists around the world to build, share, and lead with intention and clarity.  Don Jones is a bestselling author, speaker, educator, and one of the most influential figures in the PowerShell community. With decades of experience in IT, Don has written numerous foundational books on PowerShell, including Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches. He co-founded the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit and has mentored countless professionals through his teaching, writing, and leadership. Don is a passionate advocate for storytelling in tech, career development, and building inclusive communities that empower the next generation.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreysnover/  https://www.linkedin.com/in/concentrateddon/  https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewplatech/  https://www.powershellsummit.org/  The PowerShell Podcast: https://pdq.com/the-powershell-podcast  The PowerShell Podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ooyO8GsHVTs   

Join us for an enlightening conversation with Jim Katona, a man whose diverse life experiences have shaped his profound insights into positive influence and realistic beliefs. From being a roofer, clown, preacher, and artist, Jim has dedicated decades to serving others in challenging circumstances. We discuss his journey through change, grief, loss, marriage, and the value of persistence, highlighting how Jim defied expectations to become an honorary co-chairman of the Mankind Project and an ambassador for the spirit of harmonious cooperation.Listen in as we explore the origins and impact of the phrase "the spirit of harmonious cooperation," a concept Jim introduced during a board meeting in 2014. Influenced by his background as a Christian clown minister, Jim has used the power of words to foster understanding and collaboration within the Mankind Project and beyond.  See the mural - https://phillyunknownproject.org/ Hear about a pivotal moment when I was named honorary co-chairman by Don Jones after a tense situation during an NWTA weekend in 1999. We touch on the importance of adaptability and the transformative power of listening in relationships, sharing lessons learned from past mistakes and how gratitude, emotional regulation, and open communication contribute to a long-lasting, harmonious marriage. This conversation is filled with insights on personal responsibility and the value of expressing appreciation in daily interactions.Connect with Jim! jimkatona@mkp.orgSee the mural of R.E.S.P.E.C.T. at Philly Unknown: https://www.facebook.com/PhillyUnknown/videos/1589273648141537 Text Us Your Feedback! (Likes, Dislikes, Guest/Conversation Recommendations). Support the Show.Additional Resources:Magic Mind: Get 20% Off Your Subcription Subscribe/Rate/Review on iTunes ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐: >>>HERE

After finding his way back to his hometown in Camarillo, California, Don Jones is trailblazing an evolutionary path in the insurance industry.Out of college with a major is business accounting and a natural conversationalist, Don Jones kicked off his career as a “stockbroker”. Just few years later, he started his own investment advisory company and has been forging his own path ever since.  Now an insurance expert, Don Jones breaks down everything there is to know about health insurance and explains the vital role technology plays in it. Besides his love for insurance, his greatest passion is spending time on his boat, fishing and cooking what he catches.How often does he take out his boat and fish? How did growing up in Camarillo influence his life? How can DMJ Insurance Services save clients time and money?CLICK HERE for more information about Donald Jones.CLICK HERE for more information about DMJ Insurance Services, Inc.

Please enjoy this message by our Church Elder, Don Jones. If you are interested in attending a service or finding out more, please visit us on the web at www.wearebrave.church.

In this episode we talk about our past event Jmsquared Meet and Greet featuring Golden Afro. This event was graced by top Toronto clothing designers like Vibe The People, Hooks N Looks, Sanaa Zuri and Royal Ron. We had top artist performances from Don Jones, Laura Tanifum, Ojez, Dawnatello, Chuxx, Javelli, Shakkoi, Emmm and Dj Smith. In attendance too was the safe room podcast and Inside The Art Podcast. Thanks to everyone who made this event a success and have a Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year. Jmsquaredpodcast https://instagram.com/jmsquaredpodcast?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Connect with Royal Ron https://www.instagram.com/ron_bunnie?igsh=MThycmh1bXdwano4bg== Connect with Vibe The People https://www.instagram.com/vibethepeople?igsh=MXgxMWJod2x6bzdoMg== Connect with Sanaa Zuri https://www.instagram.com/sanaa_zuri?igsh=MTU1b3c0aGp4enlxZg== Connect with Hooks N Looks https://www.instagram.com/hooksnlooks?igsh=YmJwdGd6aHcyejhh Connect with The Saferoom Podcast https://www.instagram.com/thesaferoomofficial?igsh=MXZlemsyMHNtcXk0Zg== Connect with Inside The Art Podcast https://www.instagram.com/ins.idetheart?igsh=bnE3bjN1d3lwZWg0

Please enjoy this message from our Church Elder, Don Jones. If you are interested in attending a service or finding out more, please visit us on the web at www.wearebrave.church.

Fyra män ser tillbaka på sina liv som homosexuella i 1980-talets Stockholm, Riyad och Kairo. Hör om hemliga koder, fester och bastuklubbar. När homosexualitet under 80-talets Sverige inte längre klassas som en sjukdom borde det vara lättare än någonsin att leva som gay. Men med skräcken för hiv kommer mycket hat mot hbtqi-personer. Homofobin och jargongen inom poliskåren får Göran Stanton att säga upp sig.Pell Uno Larsson är på semester i Kairo och längtar efter att träffa andra män. Han använder en guidekatalog för att hitta säkra mötesplatser. Den leder honom till bastun på ett hotell.Det är lättare att vara homosexuell i Saudiarabien, ett av världens mest konservativa länder där homosexualitet straffas med döden, än hemma i Sverige tycker Steve Sjöquist. Han flyttar till huvudstaden Riyad 1985 för arbete. Steve berättar om de hemliga festerna, att sova på soffor för att ta sig säkert hem dagen efter och samtidigt känna sig friare än någonsin.Medverkande: Pell Uno Larsson, Steve Sjöquist, Don Jones och Göran Stanton.Ett program från 2023Av: Alexandra SannermalmProducent: Håkan EngströmSlutmix: Fredrik Nilsson

In Episode 386 of the Talent Development Think Tank Podcast, Andy Storch is joined by Don Jones from Experience It. Don is the founding president of Experience It Inc. Over the past 30 years, he has achieved a reputation as one of the foremost designers of sophisticated, story-driven behavioral management and leadership business simulations. Don is an accomplished consultant, researcher, speaker, and author. His organization has designed, delivered, and implemented large-scale corporate experiential learning programs for multinational Fortune 500 companies in more than 20 countries.Don is a recognized thought leader in the workplace's importance in human behaviors. His white paper Human Systems 2.0 makes a case for the increasing importance of the need for human connection as the workplace becomes increasingly digital and technological. In addition, his Contextual Intelligence Transformation Model™ has also been adopted by a number of corporations.In this bonus episode, you'll hear:Don's proudest accomplishment and his biggest mistake in his career and what he learned from the experienceWhy Don Jones believes individual engagement at scale is the biggest challenge in the Talent Development industry todayHow Don sees culture as a driver of performance as a trend he is excited about in the Talent Development SpaceThe book that Don highly recommends to peopleDon's one piece of advice to professionals and individuals who are trying to move up and become more successful in their careersConnect with Andy Storch here:WebsiteLinkedInJoin us in the Talent Development Think Tank Community!Talent Development Think Tank ConferenceConnect with Don Jones here:LinkedInTwitterWebsite The Launch of E!'s Infinity Digital Leadership Simulation and Demo

In Episode 385 of the Talent Development Think Tank Podcast, Andy Storch is joined by Don Jones from Experience It. Don is the founding president of Experience It Inc. Over the past 30 years, he has achieved a reputation as one of the foremost designers of sophisticated, story-driven behavioral management and leadership business simulations. Don is an accomplished consultant, researcher, speaker, and author. His organization has designed, delivered, and implemented large-scale corporate experiential learning programs for multinational Fortune 500 companies in more than 20 countries.Don is a recognized thought leader in the workplace's importance in human behaviors. His white paper Human Systems 2.0 makes a case for the increasing importance of the need for human connection as the workplace becomes increasingly digital and technological. In addition, his Contextual Intelligence Transformation Model™ has also been adopted by a number of corporations.In this episode, you will hear: Andy Storch and Don Jones' best learning experiences throughout their lifetimeDon Jones' thoughts about behavioral learning and its power in the learning and development spaceWhat Andy and Don believe to be the most significant challenges that need to be addressed in the L&D space todayWhy Don believes storytelling and apprenticeship to be the core of learningWhy Don is passionate about behavioral storytelling and learning as the future of learning and where things are going.Connect with Andy Storch here:WebsiteLinkedInJoin us in the Talent Development Think Tank Community!Talent Development Think Tank ConferenceConnect with Don Jones here:LinkedInTwitterWebsite The Launch of E!'s Infinity Digital Leadership Simulation and Demo

Please enjoy this message from our Church Elder, Don Jones. If you are interested in attending a service or finding out more, please visit us on the web at www.wearebrave.church.

Updated: March 20, 4:14 p.m. | Posted: Feb. 27, 4 a.m. Persia Erdrich's son had just turned 2 years old when he spoke his first sentence in Ojibwe. The pair were visiting the Minnesota Zoo as part of a group of babies, toddlers, parents and elders in a program to teach Ojibwe to young children and their parents. Erdrich, whose Ojibwe name is Netaa-niimid, said it happened when her son Patrick Linehan, whose Ojibwe name is Ogimaagaabaw, pointed at a bear in an enclosure.“Makwa nibaa,” he said. The bear is sleeping.This was possible for Erdrich's son because they attend a language nest in Cloquet, Minn., on the Fond du Lac Reservation called Gookonaanig Endaawaad, or “Grandma's House.” The program started in 2020, and now seven families learn Ojibwe traditions and language from elders who speak it as their first language.Grandma's House is not like a drop-off daycare or an immersion school where only the children learn. Through a grant from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation and support from other funders, parents get paid to learn alongside and speak with their children in Ojibwe five hours a day, four days a week.Don Jones, whose Ojibwe name is Niigaanibines, is one of the elders who teaches at Grandma's House. He said the language nest got its name because “a lot of young Anishinaabe people always went to Grandma's house for food, company, legends, and stories.” The word Anishinaabe refers to the Indigenous people of this area of the U.S. and Canada, and Ojibwe is a specific subgroup, so some use the terms interchangeably.Jones has been learning and speaking Ojibwe since he was born. It is unlikely that any adults who speak Ojibwe as their first language remain in the Fond du Lac Reservation, but it is not definitively known. All of the elders sharing their teachings at Grandma's House travel to Cloquet from places like Ontario, Manitoba, and Wisconsin. For instance, Jones travels from Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nation, which is on the Canadian side of the border from International Falls, Minn.“Even in our community on the Canadian side, I grew up in that kind of environment. I appreciate the love and kindness from grandmothers and what they provide: love and caring and sharing. So, that was the whole idea about recreating that kind of concept here.”The beginning of language revitalizationGrandma's House wouldn't have been possible a little more than a generation ago. In the late 1800s, the U.S. government created a policy that banned speaking or teaching in any language other than English in schools. This was standard practice in Native American boarding schools. For generations, Native children were taken from their families, banned from speaking their native language or engaging in traditional religious practices, and often abused if they didn't comply. Hundreds of Native children died in these schools. Counts vary, but there were at least a dozen of these boarding schools in Minnesota. “It wasn't until the passing of the Native American Languages Act in 1990 that we saw a federal policy that allowed the use of Native American languages in the classroom,” said Deidre Whiteman, director of research and education for the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, which is based in Minneapolis.“When Indigenous communities lose their languages, they also lose thousands of years of stories and traditions,” Whiteman stated. “Everything we know about ourselves as Native peoples is found in our languages — our songs, our stories, and our ceremonies. Our connection to our lands is rooted in languages. It's what makes us who we are.”A study led by The Australian National University and published in 2021 found that, worldwide, “The loss of language diversity results from a complex network of factors, particularly those associated with colonization, globalization, and social and economic change.”Ojibwe is endangered and there were only an estimated 678 first-language Ojibwe speakers in Minnesota in 2009, according to the University of Minnesota.The “language nest” model of language revitalization began in New Zealand, where a movement to revive the Maori language began in the 1970s. In the 1980s, the government there began funding language nests, or Te Kōhanga Reo, which brought elders together with children and their parents. The program flourished there. By 1991, a year after the U.S. lifted the ban on learning Native languages, New Zealand had “630 kōhanga reo operating, with a total enrollment of 10,451 children and about 4,000 staff”, according to an essay from Maori scholars Tania Rei and Carra Hamon. Language nest models now exist worldwide, but only a few exist in the United States. Commonly cited reasons include a lack of fluent speakers, financial challenges, and loss of language diversity.Likely the oldest equivalent to a language nest in the U.S. is 'Aha Pūnana Leo, meaning “nest of voices,” in Hawaii.There also is a history of language revitalization programs including language nests in Minnesota. Eni-gikendaasoyang, or the Enweyang Ojibwe Language Nest, was a preschool lab classroom that taught Native and non-native children common core subjects in Ojibwe at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. The school ran from 2009 to 2014.Minnesota is also part of several Native ancestral homelands, such as Lakota and Dakota people. In South Dakota they have a Lakota Language & Education Initiative, and in North Dakota the Lakȟól'iyapi Wahóȟpi Lakota Language Immersion Nest. And last fall in 2022, the University of Minnesota began a Dakota language nest program.Other language nests are still forming across the U.S. today: Saad K'idilyé Diné Language Nest (SKDLN) opened in August in New Mexico. How Grandma's House came to beThe seed that bloomed into Grandma's House started more than a dozen years ago. A small group, most who met in the University of Minnesota's Ojibwe Language Program including Erdrich, developed an idea for an immersive program where adults could learn from Ojibwe elders. The group worked with the Fond du Lac Tribal College to create Ojibwemotaadidaa, an Ojibwe Immersion academy for adults. It was there that discussions began about making an Ojibwe language nest for the adults at the academy who were planning or starting to have children, including Erdrich. “I was actually living in Wisconsin but I moved back here because I wanted him to learn how to speak Ojibwe,” she said about her son. Many minds went into the creation of Grandma's House. Families from Leech Lake, Bad River, and even Ontario attended these adult language camps where part of the brainstorming of Grandma's House took place. When Grandma's House was developing, the group did a pipe ceremony. Jones said they requested “guidance from the Spirits, for the program to be looked after and funded, and to provide spiritual guidance in the way this unfolds in the future.” Putting his faith in that ceremony, Jones stated Grandma's House would “come about the way it should come about.”“It was prophesized that a new generation would come in and bring back what was lost. And I really feel like the people in the language revitalization movement are that generation,” said Nicole Kneeland, who is the grant manager for Grandma's House and helped secure the grant that financially supports parents in the program. Her Ojibwe name is Gaagigegiizhigookwe. See inside Grandma's House Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation got involved because it is “committed to increasing access to early childhood care and education in a way that advances racial and health equity. The efforts of Fond Du Lac Tribal College and their creation of Grandma's House is a great example of that intersection,” stated Bukata Hayes, chair of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation board.Due to distance, some families who helped develop Grandma's House can't attend. From elders to parents to Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, to the newest and youngest first-language Ojibwe speakers at Grandma's House, the program's foundation is still growing. Erdrich and several others involved in the founding now have children in Grandma's House."Learning Ojibwe in college and pursuing learning the language and teaching the language, I hadn't really thought about babies speaking it as their first language,” Erdrich said. “It seemed like this impossible thing because of how much work it would be, how hard it would be to have a whole community and other babies to be speaking Ojibwe, but it's happening! And it's amazing because it's the peer language here so the kids are speaking Ojibwe to each other,” she said. ‘Language is healing'Even though it falls under the Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, Grandma's House is not like other college language programs. Learning a Native language in an academic setting is beneficial for language revitalization, but academic learning does not usually include learning the traditions, heritage or spirit within a Native community.A regular day at Grandma's House begins with a snack and casual interaction while the kids, parents, and elder or elders arrive. Then, depending on the season, they head outside for activities. In winter the group will snowshoe along trails or set rabbit snares; other times they will tap trees for syrup and sugar. A lot of the work is in noticing and identifying when things are changing in nature and telling the kids about it. For example, now is the season when rabbits are pregnant, so parents and elders teach the kids not to kill animals that carry young. After, everyone heads back inside to eat lunch. Sometimes they teach the little ones to process and eat wild rice, or eat what's harvested from their garden.Language diversity provides different ways of thinking and listening. Jones described that when he hears stories in Anishinaabe, “the words are very beautiful.” He said he can see a picture developing as other elders talk, as opposed to when he hears something in English and has to listen carefully to see what's being said. He said his teaching style at Grandma's House relies more “on the legends, the stories, and what my grandparents and my parents taught me to speak the language.”Grandma's House is set to expand soon. It recently got notice of funding to start an extended program this fall for children ages 3-5 to learn Ojibwe, taught by Erdrich, according to Kneeland.“We're working with the Fond du Lac Tribe to find a licensed space. Families that are currently in the program will shift their children into that program which will open up more family spots in our Grandma's House,” shared Kneeland. It will continue Ojibwe language learning when children leave the language nest.“There will be applications soon, but we're still working on it right now. This summer will be a big application period for us because we're going to go through two programs: Grandma's House and the new preschool classroom,” she said. Waking up a sleeping language Although it's common to refer to a language no longer commonly spoken as a “dead language,” some people in the language revitalization movement instead refer to them as “asleep.” The idea is that sleeping languages can be awakened through family and community efforts. Waking up Native languages can also bring intergenerational healing.“There's a tremendous amount of healing in everything that we do around Grandma's House. Once they get to a certain age, they can pass on that knowledge later on if they're in their 30s and 40s. Then they can share what we passed on to them so it continues, it lives on,” Jones said. “We all need each other to heal,” Whiteman said. “Our elders are our knowledge keepers and carry the memories of our ancestors. In our communities, elders are revered. When the youth are able to hear stories from elders, they are able to make that connection to who they are.”Native people learning their language is not only changing families but healing them. “Language is healing. When you speak your language, you have your Anishinaabe name, and your clan, and can introduce yourself and where you're from. So we always tell people that the spirit is always listening to us, not just the Great Spirit, but everything has spirit — the trees, the plants, all these are healing,” Jones said.Whiteman explained that some elders are “hesitant to re-learn their Native languages because of shame and guilt. Many struggle with their identities and feel robbed of that connection to their cultures that they felt they should have had. There were also many families who converted to Christianity and assimilated to survive.”However, the elders and families at Grandma's House are motivated to “break the cycle,” Kneeland said. “We do have situations where elders are hesitant to do this work due to the effects of being at boarding schools. It can be a really lonely trail doing this. We have to build that community and support each other, and now the language line is back in families. We have seven families that will have the language back since the last speaker two to three generations ago. This is changing families,” Kneeland said. Jones appreciates the lightness that can come with speaking and learning Ojibwe. “The spiritual language has a lot of humor. There's a lot of humor in our language, stories, directions, and mostly, what we call ‘Gizhewaadiziwin,' which is love and kindness, that's ingrained in the language,” Jones said. Erdrich is “fluent enough to keep a conversation but waiting to know enough to tell a good joke in Ojibwe.”“I can't believe it's happening: my little boy is speaking Ojibwe as his first language. The last person to speak it was my great-grandfather. It's a full circle of healing,” Erdrich said. Her son is now beginning to dream in Ojibwe. He recently shared with her a dream about a small bird flying high. It was eating, resting, and sleeping. “It was just this powerful moment because he was talking about his dream in Ojibwe and usually, in my experience, I only hear people speak about their dreams in Ojibwe when we are at ceremonies or there is some special important, maybe sacred, occasion. But, for him, he was speaking because that's the language he has.” Video of Persia ErdrichCorrection (Feb. 28, 2023): An earlier version of this story misstated the age of students at Eni-gikendaasoyang. Also, photo captions in an earlier version of this story misstated which language appears on a toy and the age of a child.

In this special episode of The PowerShell Podcast, we celebrate the show's 1 year anniversary with a very special guest, Don Jones! Don is the founder of the DevOps Summit and has been a leader in the PowerShell community for many years. We chat about the origins of the DevOps Summit, the transition of leadership to James Petty and others, and the importance of learning by doing. Don also shares his tips for responding to recruiters, and Jordan gives himself a well-deserved pat on the back. Tune in to hear all this and more!    Guest Bio and links: Don has been writing since 2000, although for the first almost two decades, he stuck with technology books. You know, those big, thick ones that seem to be sold by the pound. That included bestsellers like Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Managing Windows with VBScript and WMI, and The Windows Server 2003 Delta Guide. In 2018 or so, Don's career turned away from technology, and his writing turned toward fiction.    See The PowerShell Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aAsymolQvw   @donjones@techhub.social  https://donjones.com/books/shell-of-an-idea/  https://leanpub.com/bethemaster4  Own Your Tech Career (manning.com)  https://www.patreon.com/donjoneswrites  https://twitter.com/concentrateddon

Travelers have started to pack their suitcases again in hopes of booking long overdue trips to visit friends and family, as well as bucket list destinations. Don Jones, General Manager at Andrew Harper joins UBS to discuss traveling best practices, as well as travel they are seeing for 2023.

Please enjoy this message from our Church Elder, Don Jones. If you are interested in attending a service or finding out more, please visit us on the web at www.wearebrave.church.

Does money influence musicians and singers? In this podcast, we sit down with singer Don Jones, to talk about the sacrifices, finances and preparation involved with being a musician. We also have a live performance live at Squared Studios, so get ready to hear us sing! Connect with Don Jones on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/donhjones/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@donhjones419/videos Keep it locked to JMSquared on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jmsquaredpodcast/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/04HnwsDjOaDAtaXolUBemL?si=yxCtUpL8TiO-cG0EHPkS8Q.&nd=1 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jmsquared/id1610549555

On this spooky season edition of Parallax Views, documentarian Joe O'Connell joins us to discuss his latest feature, RONDO AND BOB, about the parallel lives of Robert A. Burns, the behind-the-scenes art force behind such cult classic horror movies as Tober Hooper's THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, Stuart Gordon's RE-ANIMATOR, Joe Dante's THE HOWLING, and Wes Craven's THE HILLS HAVE EYES, and Rondo Hatton, an acromelgaly-afflicted journalist of the early 20th century who made his way to Hollywood to become Tinsel Town's 1940s equivalent to monster movie icon Boris Karloff. Before getting into RONDO AND BOB, however, Joe and I discuss his previous documentary DANGER MAN. Said film focused on the life and times of stuntman Gary Kent, who was involved with a plethora of B-movie and independent films in the 1960s and 1970s. Kent also is one of the stuntmen upon which Brad Pitt's character in Quentin Tarantino's ONCE UPON TIME IN HOLLYWOOD was based. Specifically, the fact that Gary Kent had an encounter with Charles Manson while filming a movie on Spahn Ranch (where the Manson Family were living before the Tate/LaBianca murders) became a plot point in the aforementioned Tarantino feature. We then delve into the stories of Bob Burns and Rondo Hatton, including the similarities and differences in their lives. Burns was someone who appeared normal on the outside but was an eccentric in life and also felt unlovable. Rondo, most known for his appearances as "The Creeper" in films like the Sherlock Holmes caper PEARL OF DEATH, HOUSE OF HORRORS, and THE BRUTE MAN, appeared odd on the outside but was a normal, affable, and much loved man in his every day life. What can we learn from the lives of these two creative individuals who lived life on their on terms? That's the question in this fascinating edition of Parallax Views. Among the topics discussed: - The career of Gary Kent, who went to Hollywood with no experience but grew to become a long-running stuntman in Hollywood who often worked on the independent/grindhouse/drive-in movie circuit productions of Sam Sherman, Al Adamson, Don Jones, and Ray Dennis Steckler; his credits include movies like Schoolgirls in Chains, Bubba Ho-Tep, Psych-Out, Hell's Bloody Devils, Satan's Sadists, the Bruce Willis vehicle Color of Night, and Monte Hellman's Ride in the Whirlwind; how the documentary Danger God came together; the challenges of stunt work; Gary Kent's role in Rondo and Bob - The strange and fantastic lives of Bob Burns and Rondo Hatton; Rondo's early life, involvement with WWI, and his career in Hollywood; Bob's eccentric personality and loneliness; the continued fandom around Bob's work; Bob's acting as serial killing drifter Henry Lee Lucas in Confessions of a Serial Killer; Bob's movies Mongrel (with Hollywood star Aldo Ray) and his unreleased comedy Scream Test; Bob's home-made pinball machined based on the adult movie comedy Deep Throat with Linda Lovelace; the ways in which Rondo and Bob's lives mirror each other and the tragedies in their lives; Bob Burns, Tobe Hooper, and the University of Texas tower shooting - The influence of the George Lazenby/James Bond 007 documentary Becoming Bond on Rondo and Bob; the half-documentary/half-documentary approach of Rondo and Bob And much, much more!

Please enjoy this message from our elder, Don Jones. If you are interested in attending a service or finding out more, please visit us on the web at www.wearebrave.church.

Please enjoy this message from our elder, Don Jones. If you are interested in attending a service or finding out more, please visit us on the web at www.wearebrave.church.

Please enjoy this message from our elder, Don Jones. If you are interested in attending a service or finding out more, please visit us on the web at www.wearebrave.church.

Last week we celebrated our 2-year anniversary, today we kick off season 3 with our friend Don Jones. He is the past President of CalNENA and played an integral part in the reclassification of Dispatchers to First Responders. We always have fun and great conversations with Don, so listen in and don't forget to tell your friends about We Speak Dispatch! Give us 15 minutes & we'll get you talking! Just give us a listen on our podcast, YouTube, & Facebook www.linktr.ee/WeSpeakDispatch Xybix Systems, Inc.

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James Petty is crazy busy with all things PowerShell. He is running the upcoming PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit. James runs PowerShell.org, Co-Authoring PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, and in mid-May will be running The PowerShell "Firehose Class" with Don Jones where they do a DEEP dive into PowerShell. Finally, we talk about the value of the importexcel module and using PowerShell to wow the boss. Guest Bio and links: James Petty is the CEO of the DevOps Collective, a nonprofit for technology education. As well as the owner/moderator of PowerShell.org and its forums. Not satisfied with how bad he has already made me feel about my productivity, he is the lead writer for the 4th edition of PowerShell in a Month of Lunches while still maintaining his job as the solutions architect for Wyre Technologies. James MVP Profile - https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/5003525?fullName=James%20Petty PowerShell Forums - https://forums.powershell.org/ PowerShell Firehose Class - https://donjones.com/powershell-firehose-class/ Youtube series on importexcell module - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3Ne_yX4tYo&list=PL5uoqS92stXioZw-u-ze_NtvSo0k0K0kq

Don Jones is the Head of Claims in MMUS Insurance Operations at MassMutual, leading the charge to achieve our vision of becoming a digitally enabled organization with richer customer data, streamlined processes, and automation to pay our claims faster, more accurately and provide service on the customer's terms. Don has more than 25 years' experience in the industry, including nearly two decades in claims leadership. Most recently, Don provided private claims consulting to a wide range of clients. Prior to that, he spent many years with Nationwide Insurance in senior leadership roles of increasing scope and responsibility of the firm's property and casualty claims organization. Over his career, Don has specialized in setting strategic direction and executing key business transformation initiatives, including technology adoption and digitization as well as process optimization, automation and continuous improvement solutions. As a note, Don's views are his own, and not those of MassMutual Highlights from the Show Don came up in P&C after getting into it in the 1990s, and built his career in Claims He made the move to Life when he joined MassMutual, making him one of the very few who have worked in both Life and P&C Don sees a lot of similarities because of the ultimate need to stand by people and try to help them with money and caring for those worst moments in their lives Don says, "We are in the business of helping people solve problems to the extent money and caring can do that" For Claims in Life, the pandemic has made the ability to deliver empathy has only amplified Coming out of the pandemic, how we do look at recruiting, attracting, retaining and developing talent differently? Can we be more flexible across so many factors that allow for more scalability as a business? Talking about Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Don shared that he sees things that happened in 2020 as turning points rather than momentary flashes that we can now build from, and need to build from Diversity is what makes us stronger as communities, companies and a nation, and if people don't feel that they have a voice in what they're doing, how can we expect them to help move us forward on innovation, on delivering the best we can of ourselves and what our customers need from us, or move our industry ahead? We discussed the flight to purpose amongst consumers and employees, which is already started today, but will increase as Millennials and Gen Zs become a majority of consumers and employees The business case for DE&I is strong and proven already, and we need to amplify that and expose even more value from it because it is there, well beyond it just being the right thing to do As our customer base is and becomes more diverse, the people who we hire to serve them need to also be diverse to better connect with those we serve Going forward, we need to find ways to move faster and understand customers more holistically so we leave customers feeling like we are here for them, and we're the kind of company they'd want to pass down from generation to generation On systemic racism, while realistically, it may not be solved in Don's lifetime or his kid's, that doesn't mean we don't go after it with the rigor and determination like it could happen so we stand the best chance of making that a reality   This episode is brought to you by VPay (vpayusa.com), part of Optum Financial. And by the the book series, The Future of Insurance: From Disruption to Evolution by Bryan Falchuk (future-of-insurance.com). Follow the podcast at future-of-insurance.com/podcast for more details and other episodes. Music courtesy of UPbeat Music, available to stream on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and Google Play. Just search for "UPbeat Music"  

Please enjoy this message from our elder, Don Jones. If you are interested in attending a service or finding out more, please visit us on the web at www.wearebrave.church.

Please enjoy this message from our elder, Don Jones. If you are interested in attending a service or finding out more, please visit us on the web at www.wearebrave.church.

“Decide where it is you're going and what kind of career you need to live the life you want and aim for that really deliberately. Because if you don't know where you're going, then you never will get there." Don Jones is the author of “Own Your Tech Career” and the VP of Developer Skills at Pluralsight. In this episode, Don explained why it is important for us to understand the career we want and aim to build that career deliberately, instead of keep chasing promotion and more money continuously, and thus winding up in a rat race. He emphasized a few important things as part of owning our career, such as the importance of soft skills, showing yourself as a professional, building a personal brand, and being a better decision-maker. Do not miss a couple of showing up as professional tips that Don adopted from Disney! Listen out for: Career Journey - [00:05:52] Owning Our Tech Career - [00:07:11] On Money - [00:11:18] Importance of Soft Skills - [00:13:24] Showcasing Strong Profile - [00:16:28] Showing as Professional: Be Your Word - [00:20:14] Be Detailed and Precise - [00:23:15] Cut Your Losses When The Time is Right - [00:25:21] Let Blue Sky Mode Happen - [00:29:28] Draw a Yellow Line - [00:31:38] Building a Personal Brand - [00:34:45] What to Contribute and Finding Time - [00:40:24] RAPID Decision Making - [00:43:46] Deciding What's Enough - [00:45:29] Deciding What to Believe - [00:47:55] 3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:51:23] _____ Don Jones's Bio Don Jones has been in the IT industry since the mid-1990s, and has worked in roles ranging from software developer to network engineer. He's most well-known for his work with Microsoft's Windows PowerShell, and he's written literally dozens of books on other IT topics. Today, much of Don's focus is on helping technology professionals become owners of their careers, through books like How to Own Your Tech Career and projects like his Ampere.Club website. You can view Don's full bibliography at DonJones.com. Follow Don: Website – https://donjones.com/ LinkedIn – https://linkedin.com/in/concentrateddon/ Twitter – https://twitter.com/concentrateddon Ampere Club – https://ampere.club Our Sponsor This episode is proudly sponsored by Emergence, the journal of business agility. This quarterly publication brings you inspiring stories from the most innovative companies and explores themes of new ways of working, reclaiming management, and humanizing business. Each issue is hand illustrated and 100% content. Use the promo code “techlead” to get a 10% discount on your annual subscription. Visit businessagility.institute/emergence to get your edition and support the publication supporting your podcast. Like this episode? Subscribe on your favorite podcast app and submit your feedback. Follow @techleadjournal on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. Pledge your support by becoming a patron. For more info about the episode (including quotes and transcript), visit techleadjournal.dev/episodes/55.

“Born Kevin van Drecht in the Netherlands, Kevan Dre is a 21-year-old upcoming rapper, producer, songwriter and engineer. At a young age Kevin fell in love with music from the likes of Lil Wayne and Bay Area artists E-40 and Mac Dre. From playing the organ at his grandparents' house to building his own studio and recording actual songs that could take you places. In the summer of 2018 he started messing around with different DAW's and made his first beats. As soon as he got the hang of producing, Kevin started writing songs and rapping the following year. On May 21st 2019 he finally released his first single called “Drifting Off” with Italian singer Marco Finotti under his old artist name “KD”. Between then and January 2020 Kevin continued to release numerous singles featuring artists around the globe. After a year of releasing songs as KD, Kevin and the label he was under decided it was time to rebrand to something more unique. He eventually landed on “Kevan Dre”, which takes parts of his real name, and pays homage to artists like Mac Dre and Dr. DRE. On July 3rd Kevin officially came back to the rap scene under Kevan Dre with his debut single called “Lonely” featuring Miami based artist Don Jones, which amassed over 4000 streams. He then continued releasing singles like “Hurt”, which amassed over 10.000 streams, Need That, which surpassed 4500 streams, and overseas, surpassing 16.000 streams. Inspired by artists like E-40 and Mac Dre, to G-Eazy and P-Lo, Kevan Dre is set to bring American Hip Hop and West Coast Hip Hop to western Europe.” Kevan and I speak about his life ambition in becoming an MC and his interactions with hip hop. Learn More on Dreams Not Memes and Subscribe today. Social Links: https://www.instagram.com/Kevan_Dre/ https://www.Twitter.com/Kevan_Dre

In this week's show, Phil talks to Don Jones, who has worked in the IT industry since the 1990s, and in that time has been everything from a software developer to a network engineer. He's written dozens of IT books, and now focuses on helping technologists become the owners of their careers. Don discusses why you should never underestimate your value. He also talks about why we must be thoughtful about our careers, and guide them selfishly in order to create our own unique path in the world.   KEY TAKEAWAYS:   TOP CAREER TIP Never underestimate yourself, and do not under-sell yourself. Don't let what you see influence your entire opinion about something.   WORST CAREER MOMENT Don projected his negative perspective onto an employer with which he was having difficulty. He left but found a worse experience. But it taught him not to run away from things, rather run towards better opportunities.   CAREER HIGHLIGHT Don has now found his ideal career position – a company that encourages growth and development at every turn.   THE FUTURE OF CAREERS IN I.T Don is eternally excited by the sheer explosion of growth directions – the unlimited potential of fields within IT and how they can change the world at such pace.   THE REVEAL What first attracted you to a career in I.T.? – Don has always been in love with science fiction, the future, and computers What's the best career advice you received? – You don't have to respond to every email! What's the worst career advice you received? – That we must be very good at mathematics in order to work with computers. What would you do if you started your career now? – Don would focus heavily on software development at the beginning. What are your current career objectives? – Don is spending time looking down the ladder and seeing who might need a hand upwards. What's your number one non-technical skill? – Writing and written communication How do you keep your own career energized? – Don looks for opportunities, and problems that need to be solved. Don actively seeks solutions and to empower others to do the same. What do you do away from technology? – Don writes fiction novels.   FINAL CAREER TIP Be thoughtful. Your career is the one thing that will be with you for your entire life. Consider each direction carefully and make sure it serves you selfishly.   BEST MOMENTS (5:12) – Don - “If you know the life you want, you can start to plan a career that can take you in that direction” (3:53) – Don - “Own that career, make it your own, and make it give you what you want” (8:01) – Don – “Be careful about making decisions based on incomplete thinking or an incomplete perspective. Keep an open mind” (10:03) – Don – “Don't run away from something. Run towards something”   ABOUT THE HOST – PHIL BURGESS Phil Burgess is an independent IT consultant who has spent the last 20 years helping organizations to design, develop, and implement software solutions.  Phil has always had an interest in helping others to develop and advance their careers.  And in 2017 Phil started the I.T. Career Energizer podcast to try to help as many people as possible to learn from the career advice and experiences of those that have been, and still are, on that same career journey.   CONTACT THE HOST – PHIL BURGESS Phil can be contacted through the following Social Media platforms: Twitter: https://twitter.com/_philburgess LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/philburgess Facebook: https://facebook.com/philtechcareer Instagram: https://instagram.com/_philburgess Website: https://itcareerenergizer.com/contact Phil is also reachable by email at phil@itcareerenergizer.com and via the podcast's website, https://itcareerenergizer.com Join the I.T. Career Energizer Community on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/ITCareerEnergizer   ABOUT THE GUEST – DON JONES Don Jones has worked in the IT industry since the 1990s, and in that time has been everything from a software developer to a network engineer. He's written dozens of IT books, and now focuses on helping technologists become the owners of their careers.   CONTACT THE GUEST – DON JONES Don Jones can be contacted through the following Social Media platforms: Twitter: https://twitter.com/concentrateddon LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/concentrateddon/ Website: https://ampere.club Website: https://donjones.com

Please enjoy this message from our elder, Don Jones. If you are interested in attending a service or finding out more, please visit us on the web at www.wearebrave.church.

Please enjoy this message from our elder, Don Jones. If you are interested in attending a service or finding out more, please visit us on the web at www.wearebrave.church.

Meet the ineffable Don Jones, a legend in the field of technology who is also a fantasy fiction writer. Why is he on the Language of Mindfulness? Aside from being a great guy, after decades of success in IT, he is starting a venture that helps people, anyone actually, but with a special emphasis on IT, to learn and use the skills needed to have a successful career. Don fully embraces the principle that you need more than professional skills to be successful in the business world these days. Skills that you need include emotional intelligence, mindfulness, group dynamics, and it wouldn't hurt to learn some public speaking as well. He's offering support for these and others through his membership non-profit, The Ampere Club. In this episode, Don and I talk about how "soft skills", including mindfulness are essential in today's workplace to help you stand out and succeed. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/languageofmindfulness/message

In this episode we're catching up with Don Jones, Head of Software Developer Skills at Pluralsight, about building your cloud career.Don's new book:https://www.manning.com/books/own-your-tech-careerDon's new club:https://ampere.club

We're still stuck in the woods this week with Don Jones' THE FOREST! Two couples played by Tomi Barrett, Ann Wilkinson, John Battis and Dean Russell head into the forests of California for some hiking and camping where they're stalked by a cannibal hermit, harassed by the ghost of his wife and helped by the ghosts of his children. Overall, this is a fine movie that is an enjoyable watch… BUT, there is a huge amount of misogynistic plot conceits that really jump out at you, like a “proud chauvinist” lead character. There's even a weird connection to a chilli cook-off. Honey, the only backpacking you do is in bed!

A BIG MARCH COMING UP FOR DC STATEHOOD & A DEEP DIVE INTO INSANE ARIZONA We start our Grassroots Emergency Election Protection (GREEP) zoom #50 with CHARLIE CRAY and a dynamite new report from GREENPEACE on the corporate role in election protection. We're then honored with the first announcement of a mass rally planned for DC on August 28-9, the 58th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's I HAVE A DREAM speech.  Attorney CHARLES MORELAND and shadow Senator MICHAEL BROWN tell us the gathering will be for DC STATEHOOD, VOTER RIGHTS, END POVERTY & HOMELESSNESS, & A GREEN-POWERED EARTH. Attorney THEODORA BROWN and DR. DON JONES fill us in on crucial details. Among much more, we will demand that all federal buildings in DC be solar-powered, starting with the White House, whose roof once housed Jimmy Carter's solar water heater.  We again hear from JOHN BRAKEY and RAY LUTZ on the bizarre antics of the infamous ARIZONA RECOUNT in all its media-saturated Trumpian glory.  If you are at all interested in election protection, you don't want to miss this report.

A sermon based on Acts 10:44-48, read by Dr. Don Jones.

Join us as we speak with Don Jones, an aspirational entrepreneur in Columbus. He talks with Jake about cultivating community, finding common ground instead of pointing at the gaps between us, and much, much more.

The tech talent shortage is fueling a workforce development revolution.  With more and more companies unable to find software developers and IT pros to fill open positions, employers are taking radical steps to reskill non-technical talent for these roles.  For today’s episode, we’re sharing the audio of recent webinar featuring Don Jones, head of developer skills at Pluralsight, and Jessica Schneider, Vice President of marketing and product development at DevelopIntelligence. They’ll be discussing the innovative strategies companies are using today to rapidly build robust talent pipelines.

In this week's episode, we spoke with Don Jones, Head of Developer Skills at Pluralsight, about how developers can improve their skills through online learning options. Pluralsight is also hosting #FreeApril and is making most of their skills platform available for free throughout the month of April. Visit pluralsight.com for more information. 

Live Stream of Sunday Morning Service on February 7, 2021. Special Music - "The Love of God" from Gary Powell and message from Bro. Don Jones.

Community stability requires a strong business presence to be viable. Don Jones, Associate Director of the New Economy Initiative, joins Tom Nixon and Marc Trail to discuss the 12-year journey of building business in Detroit and where we are headed, including NEI's "Neighborhood Business Initiative" and how small businesses can benefit. Discussion points: Neighborhood organizations creating jobs and building a sense of place in local neighborhoods What is improving in Detroit and what opportunities exist for continued improvement Will the pandemic have a long term impact on Detroit's future Challenges to growth for small neighborhood businesses Social impact of revitalization and urban flight Bringing communities together via purposeful connectivity Question of the day References and Resources: Visit the New Economy Initiative website Check out the Neighborhood Business Initiative Visit and bookmark Detroit Means Business Connect with Don Jones on LinkedIn Find a local southeast Michigan mentor today! Interested in becoming a mentor? Start here! Visit our Facebook page, and follow us on LinkedIn Connect with Armando, Tom and Marc on LinkedIn Theme music: Let Us Run For It by The Denotes | https://thedenotes.bandcamp.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

Guest speaker, Don Jones, voices his story and experiences in the Music Industry as a recording artist, and advises new talents to "never let anyone put you in a box!" Don has as a new release, "Hurricane Season III." --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/livewithjacquelinevaldez/support

https://bryanaiello.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/163-Don-Jones-Mixdown-1.mp3 On episode #163 Speculative Fiction author and technology expert Jones joins me. Don Jones is a navy brat who knows how to fix planes and write speculative fiction. He calls Southern Utah home and is considered an expert on Information Technology.  Website: https://donjones.com/about-me/ *** Music on this episode courtesy of: Kevin MacLeod  Mountain Emperor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkxQFdMlZcw *** Subscribe to my YouTube Channel for updates on my other show Mirage: Speculating on Speculative Fiction. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbSnMk6QPiULXmKDYmwCmIg Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/origin-stories-on-creativity/id1247194933?mt=2 Subscribe on stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/bryan-aiello/origins-stories-on-creativity?refid=stpr On Google Play https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iywh2sype4wvtcuq4ose2fuxhqq Follow me on twitter @bryaiello for updates on this channel and my podcast and my writing projects.  The podcast has a facebook page! Check it out for schedules of upcoming shows and guests and to communicate with about whatever you want including be a guest or suggesting authors or artist.  https://www.facebook.com/BryAiello/ My website is: http://www.bryanaiello.com Email questions and comments to: me@byranaiello.com Support the show on my poorly managed patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/BryanAiello

In episode 33, Jimmy offers a narrative with regards to the upcoming election and what can be done in advance by individuals and families to prepare themselves for turbulent times.   The episode includes an introduction to the Stand In the Gap Initiative as well as the Sunday night Zoom meetings hosted by Don Jones with regards to preparations to consider with regards to food, water, equipment, and communications.

A new MP3 sermon from Grace Bible Church of Cedar Ridge is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Holy Spirit In You Speaker: Don Jones Broadcaster: Grace Bible Church of Cedar Ridge Event: Sunday Service Date: 9/13/2020 Length: 41 min.

In episode 32, Jimmy is joined by Don Jones, Jason Campbell, and Brian Karch with a follow up to the Justice for Stevie Ride.  All riders returned safely with a minimal amount of equipment damage :-) Very Special Thank You To: Craig, Marti, Emmeline, and Elodie Prohaska @ Telluride, CO Lake City Lodge Mike and Nancy Picard @ Buena Vista, CO Justin and Jennifer Liffick @ Eagle, CO Ladder Ranch, WY Old West BBQ @ Castle Rock

In this episode Jimmy is joined by fellow Able Shepherd's Skip Miller and Don Jones to provide an update with regards to the “Stand In The Gap” initiative.  Be on the lookout as the team is diligently at work preparing for a series of in person, large scale communication events culminating in 5 presentations, delivered at various locations in and around the South Metro Denver area, with a targeted goal of 200+ attendees for each session.   Fundamentally, “Stand In The Gap” consists of three Core components … what am I doing as an individual, what am I doing for my family, and what can me and my family do to support the team … as it relates to the following categories: 1.) Preparedness 2.) Capability 3.) Organization   Don Jones will be leading the charge with regards to Preparedness with a 14 part series dubbed the “Able Shepherd Preparedness Study Group”.  Zoom meetings will start on Sunday, August 2, 2020 from 9 to 10pm and will continue as a weekly recurring meeting until Sunday, November 1, 2020.  Plan is  to record the Zoom meetings and post them in an online shared folder in case folks are unable to attend.  List of topics to include:   https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88928109062   Sunday August 2nd Introduction Sunday August 9th Basic Food Preparation Sunday August 16th Emergency Communication Plan Sunday August 23rd Equipment List(s) Sunday August 30th Water (preparation and storage) Sunday September 6th Basic Cooking from Scratch Sunday September 13th Information Resources Sunday September 20th Get Home Bags aka Bug Out Bags Sunday September 27th Medical and First Aid Sunday October 4th Money, Financial Transactions, and Barter Sunday October 11th Transportation, Automotive, and Fuel Sunday October 18th Home Heat and Staying Warm Sunday October 25th Shelter in Place Activities Sunday November 1st Review and Open Mic Conversation   Capability is at the Core of the Able Shepherd Training program with additional information at  https://ableshepherd.com   In future discussions, Skip Miller will provide input, guidance, and direction with regards to Organization and more specifically sources of accurate, reliable, and timely information.   Garmin InReach Explorer+ (satellite communicator with GPS) https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/561269

In this somewhat special, vaction-y episode, Alexander talks to Don Jones about all things training! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Don Jones has been in the IT industry since the mid-1990s, and in that time has written dozens of technology books. These days, he's shifted focus to books on business, self-improvement, and even fiction, along with books that are accessible to a wider, non-tech audience. You can find the whole collection at donjones.com/books, including top sellers like Be the Master, Let's Talk Business, and How to Find a Wolf in Siberia. Show resources:Books by Don JonesDon Jones on TwitterFull transcript:Barry Luijbregts  0:17 Welcome to another developer weekly. This week, I'm talking with Don Jones about troubleshooting. Don Jones has been in the IT industry since the mid 90s. And in that time, has written dozens of technology books. These days, he shifted focus to books on business, self improvement, and even fiction, along with books that are accessible to a wider non tech audience. You can find the whole collection at dawn jones.com slash books, including top sellers, like be the monster. Let's talk business and how to find a wolf in Siberia. Welcome to the show, Don. Thanks for having me. Good to be here. Yeah, thank you very much for taking the time. As I know, you're a busy man. So today, I want to talk with you about troubleshooting. So, I followed you online for a while. I like your content. And I've met you a couple times at pro site events. But I've only recently just discovered that you actually have some books. And I've read a couple of them, including how to find a wolf in Siberia about troubleshooting. So this book is short, and it's practical, and I liked it. Can you tell me what it is and why you wrote it?Don Jones  1:32 Yeah, so I guess the why first I, I kept running into people who, you know, said I wish I had better troubleshooting skills or someone needs to do a course on how to do better troubleshooting. And I thought, you know, there's got to be something like that. I mean, that the tech industry is feels like it's 98% troubleshooting half the time. And there is a website and there's a fellow who's who's written some books and stuff, and I dug into it because if somebody's already done something, I'd rather recommend that but I think kind of struggled to get through it. And I thought it could have been more of a story, story based thing, just like help people get context. So we started really thinking about it. I talked to a lot of folks to get some different perspectives. And I remembered way back in the day when I was speaking for the experts conference in Arizona, the the CTO of net Pro, which ran the event at the time, did this little talk and he said, You know, there's this phrase, how do you find a wolf in Siberia? Well, you build a wolf proof fence. And he kind of expanded on that. And it made such a good high level analogy that it's stuck with me. It took me a long time actually, when I wrote the book, I did not know where that originated. It originally came from, how do you find a wolf in Alaska, but Siberia is bigger. So it sounds more impressive. And it was such a good analogy that that I wanted to kind of make that the theme for the book and I guess the book is is not about it's obviously I'm not going to make you an expert and everything. But the kind of the point of the book is that you don't have to be an expert in things. There's a process and a methodology. And if you follow that, and if you really stick with it, and you follow it religiously, every single time you need to troubleshoot something, it will get you through now, but it doesn't mean you're not going to have to learn some things, right? If If something's broken, that you don't know anything about that part of the process, is identifying the minimum amount you need to actually solve the problem. So it tries to take troubleshooting from being this this huge vague, this thing is broken. I don't know what to do, and giving you a place in your mind to always start fromBarry Luijbregts  3:45 right, yeah, because troubleshooting can be very daunting at times. Yeah, I'm, I'm a developer. And I think most of my time actually, I spent on troubleshooting. You know, I typed some text into Visual Studio or something. Then I press f5 and my application starts running and it doesn't do what I want. And so I start troubleshooting, why that is I fix it, and I do it all over again. So even in the development cycle when it's not even in production, I I'm troubleshooting, maybe 60 70% of the time.Don Jones  4:16 Yeah. And that's really common for for most trades, honestly, I think developers have a slightly easier in that, you can see your entire system in front of you. Like if you want to take the time, you can walk through line by line and figure things out. But I mean, any modern developer, you're also using these enormous libraries that you didn't write, and they're kind of black boxes. And if you're not interacting with it, or if maybe it's broken, then those troubleshooting skills, you know, really start to come into play.Barry Luijbregts  4:50 Yeah, absolutely. So, as a developer, you know, I think I'm a pretty good troubleshooter. And I think developers are good troubleshooters. But in the book, You say that there aren't aren't any natural troubleshooters. As in, there aren't people that are born troubleshooters? Nope. Why do you think that is?Don Jones  5:09 Well, part of it is because the human brain evolved around a correlation causation model. You know, we, we see something happen, and we look at what happened around it. And we try to assume that that's cause. And so when we troubleshoot things, we tend to try and rely on that model. It means if we've got no correlations, then it's sometimes difficult for us to figure out cause. Another thing we do, kind of as a default, is okay, if it was working yesterday, but it's not working today, then something must have changed. And so all I have to do is figure out what changed. And that's that's nominally true. But going into figuring out what changed can be hard. I mean, depending on what type of system you're working with, you know, if you're, if you're troubleshooting something in your car, Like, what changed? How do you actually go figure out what change? And because that's such a default condition for people's brains to fall into, instead of troubleshooting the problem, we go off on this tangent of trying to inventory all the things that changed. And that's not always super helpful. Like, look, sometimes that's a valid troubleshooting step to be sure, but it can't be your first step. And I think it's it's one of the reasons is that science itself, like the idea of stating a hypothesis, and then setting out to prove that hypothesis, and making sure that the hypothesis is disprovable in the first place. Those are not natural things that that come to us. And so it tends to mean we're not natural troubleshooters. Because troubleshooting really does have to be kind of a scientific process. You know, you'll you'll see people all the time. Maybe an outlet in the house isn't working. And so they'll run to the circuit breaker panel and just start flipping switches on and off. You're like, well, that's That's not troubleshooting. You're, you're just throwing spaghetti at the wall. Like, let's put some science into this. I posit that this circuit breaker is the problem. And here's my reasoning for that. And so I'm going to conduct a test to see if my reasoning is correct. And if it isn't, then that also needs to lead me in another direction. So to take the wolf analogy, if you told someone go find a wolf in Siberia, they'd maybe fly up a helicopter and start doing a search grid of some kind, right? And that's kind of that random idea of just throwing every circuit breaker to see if that was the problem. It's not actually troubleshooting the answer to how do you find a wolf in Siberia, you build a wolf proof fence down half of the country. And you then eliminate one side or the other. It doesn't matter which you eliminate first. But by eliminating that you are not only removing a potential location for the wolf, you are directing yourself to a potential location for the wolf Right. So you're, you're creating a positive outcome one way or another. It's It's like when a lot of people who aren't super familiar with networking will try to troubleshoot, you know, Oh, I can't reach the internet. Oh, it you know, it must be the router. I'll unplug the router and plug it back in. Okay, well, if it wasn't the router, you're right back where you began, that test did not put you on one side of the fence or the other. It just randomly eliminated one of many possible conditions. And now you don't necessarily have a next step. So that's what troubleshooting was really all about, for me is a process by which you're testing things, and the outcome leads you in one direction or another. It doesn't just leave you standing back where you started.Barry Luijbregts  8:44 Right. So this all that sounds like a very comprehensive approach. So let me just try to see if I understand this, because I heard a couple of troubleshooting techniques here. For instance, seeing what's changed can be a step in the troubleshooting technique, right? Yeah, absolutely. It's as a developer, it's something I reach for very quickly, because something must have changed in the code or something, right? If something breaks, that's my, my initial response with might not be a good to troubleshooting response.Don Jones  9:19  So, yeah, a lot of developers do this. I think they do. And it actually isn't a great troubleshooting response. It can seem that way. Because as a developer, in theory, you have control over your whole system. But let's take a really simple classic example of someone who's constructing a SQL query. And they're, they're maybe not doing the right thing. And they're, they're, they're assembling strings together. And they are now working with a maybe maybe they've gotten past development and they moved into production. And now things have broken. Well, okay, what what changed? As far as your code is concerned, maybe nothing changed. But maybe now your test data set or your production data set has a last name like oh dual that has a single quotation mark. And because you were building the queries the way you were, then you broke it. So your, your problem was always there, you just didn't have a broad enough test set to detect it in your code when you're in development. And so asking yourself, What changed? I mean, the only thing that changed is you move from a dev environment into a production environment. That's a lot of things that potentially changed. And so if you just start running down the list of what changed, you're not actually going to solve the problem.Barry Luijbregts  10:28 Exactly. And that's, that's the the limited mindset that I find myself a lot in as a developer, because the world in which my application runs is very big with a lot of variables and parameters that that can change.Don Jones  10:42 Yeah, yeah. And so you really have to take the approach of, okay, where could the problem be? And what can I do to definitively eliminate at least one possible choice? And right, you know, that's where you you get into debugging And you know, in the case of code, you might set some breakpoints and set some monitors, so that you can actually see the data, you know, you might, you might construct your SQL query into a variable so that you can sit there and read that thing. And that's valid. And a lot of developers will do that very naturally. And I think they don't give themselves credit. Because you are actually by doing that simply by putting the query into a variable and setting a watch on it, you are implicitly declaring a theory, my theory is that something in the query is messed up. And so I am going to conduct a test that will eliminate or confirm that. So you set the watch, you could either then just look at the query visually, or what a lot of people will do is copy it to the clipboard and then go into a tool where they can run just that query with some hard coded values in it. And and they're therefore sorry, therefore, they are eliminating or confirming their theory. And if you found out that, oh, I never factored for that particular data type, then you have confirmed your theory that that's where the problem was. But regardless, you're sending yourself in a direction. If the query ran standalone outside of your app, then you know that it's not the query. It's it's the next line of code or the next line that's doing it. So it gives you a direction to go next.Barry Luijbregts  12:21 And that's kind of the building the wolf proof fence, right? Yes, in you're splitting up the application or the problem domain into smaller and smaller pieces until you finally have the piece that it must be in. And there you can then define your thesis of what it could be, and disprove or prove it.Don Jones  12:42 Yeah, it's funny. It's tough to do now because our applications are so big and so complex. And even if you're breaking something down into microservices, there's just so many things. But some of my first programming experience was in the RPG language on an es 400. And it was right relatively common to create domain gates between chunks of code. So I worked for a retailer. And we had a distribution center and one of our most complicated sets of code was designed to look at the physical dimensions of the products we had to ship, and then figure out how many of them could go into a given carton to be handed off to ups. So a lot of very complicated math and geometry going on. And that was broken into about eight or nine domain gates, so that you could take any one domain, it's almost like writing a function where you know exactly what data is going in. And data can only get out in a certain way. And so you would you could validate each of those individually it for RPG, it was kind of a precursor to what anybody today which is called good modular programming. But by doing that by really breaking things down as you code into the smallest human possible pieces, you eliminate the number of times places that you might have to declare a theory. So you've got these these strong walls and scopes between all these different data domains, and functional domains. So when something does break, you can declare a theory and easily build your wolf proof fence around that because by nature of modular programming, it's already a wolf proof fence. It's one of the reasons, you know, experienced developers hate it when people use global scopes and things like that, because now your fence has to be so much larger. And if you could, you could, you know, ratchet that down to a smaller area. So there are some design techniques, especially encoding that can make troubleshooting easier, but it really does get down to that, break it down into the smallest bit possible and then verify that bit.Barry Luijbregts  14:43 Yeah, I like this analogy a lot to the wolf proof fence because it applies so much to what we do as developers as well. You know, sometimes when I'm really stuck with a bug or an issue in code, then I just start to and I know that it's in in One class, for instance, I know it's somewhere there, or in one page, I just start to comment out stuff, just comment out code and see, well, was this it? No. Was this it? No, yeah. Was this it? No, well, then it must be in this piece right here, what it is, how much of this before it breaks? Exactly, exactly. Or just take it all out, and then create the most minimal possible application that can run that particular piece of code, and see if it still works within that different environment of clean application without all the plumbing around it. It sometimes works for me, too.Don Jones  15:36 Yeah. And I think a lot of people, you know, if you extend that technique to a design level, then it's possible to run a page with these 20 lines commented out, then maybe they should be a standalone function somewhere else. And that way, exactly. That way you can bring them down and write yourself a little test harness to just call that one function. And that's that's also really where unit testing became such a strong thing is because it helps you build a wall around a certain section of code and verify that that code is doing exactly what you thought it was. And it's almost kind of an automated pre troubleshooting step those unit tests.Barry Luijbregts  16:17 Right? Yeah, absolutely. You know, I really don't like creating unit tests. Anybody else? Know, but it's just it's part of the deal. You know, you just need to do it. Because if you don't, I have had so many times where I didn't write a unit test, and I change something somewhere else in the application unrelated and then something broke something that was working. Yeah. And when exactly I would have if I would have written a unit test for that. I would have seen that it broken and I would have changed my behavior and my code. Yep. Okay, so, we have a technique that is finding out what changed can be a technique in some cases. is obviously building the wolf proof fence, and thereby eliminating certain parts of the problem domain, which is a very powerful one. And then we were talking about devising theories of what could be wrong. And now, in the book, you've talked about the scientific method. Yeah. Which I think this is about. Can you elaborate what that actually is the scientific method?Don Jones  17:24 Yes. So the scientific method is, is an idea that you state a theory for something that you think might be true. And then you create experiments to definitively prove or disprove that and that's, that's where a lot of people get messed up. It's not if I run this test, it will tell me if it works. If you run the test, it needs to tell you it works, or it does not work like it has to confirm one or the other. It can't just be open ended. I have a big one. lamp in my office and one bulb and it was flickering uncontrollably. So I don't know is this a loose wire in the lamp itself? That was one theory is the bulb itself just going bad? That's another theory. I can unscrew the bulb and I can put a new one in there. And it depends on how you state your theory right when you state a theory you have to make sure it is provable and disprovable. So let's say my theory was the light bulb is bad. I pull the light bulb out. I don't really have another way to test that I don't have another lamp in my office. So I put a different light bulb into the lamp and that one works. Okay, technically I fixed my problem. But I still haven't confirmed if the light bulb I removed is actually broken or not. I can still theorize that it is I mean after all the new bulb works but I would need to screw that old light bulb into a different fixture and see if it is still flickering there. If it is There, then I've proven the bulb is broken. So it's really easy to get into the idea of, Oh, I just want to test this and get the problem fixed. But really, you want to get yourself in a mindset of I'm going to do tests that prove or disprove what I think is broken, because that way you're you don't have to come back to that again. You know, it's, it's, it's the person who takes the flickering light bulb, unscrews, it puts it up on the shelf, gets a new light bulb screws it in, sees that it's working. Okay, but leaves that potentially busted bulb still on the shelf, like you never finished all the tests.Barry Luijbregts  19:37 So yeah, that that is then the scientific methods. Yeah. And that's another technique that can help you to troubleshoot.Don Jones  19:43 Yeah, and, and that's the big one, and that's why we say we want a wolf proof fence. So if I test a thing, then I have either proven or disproven a theory and that will lead me on to other theories, but it needs to be self contained. Right, I couldn't, I couldn't unscrew the light bulb, and then screw another one. And I've brought too many factors in here. Now, you know, what if the new bulb still flickers, I actually haven't proven anything. I've kind of wasted my time. It could be another broken bulb. It could be the lamps still. I didn't disprove anything. And so I'm now going to spend more time coming up with a real test. Right? Barry Luijbregts  20:27 And then those tests are also should just test one thing, right? It is very important to control your variables.Don Jones  20:35 Yeah. And that's, that's another piece of the scientific method is that you have to clearly state what your theory is. And then clearly state what you are testing. You know, it's not enough to say I can't get to the internet. All right, I'm just going to go you know, flip the circuit breaker for the whole house back and forth. Wow. Like you're testing a whole bunch of things right there. And it's very time consuming to test at that level. It would make sense A lot more sense to test Five little things. Because if each of those can definitively eliminate a potential cause of the problem, but you know, if you turn the circuit breaker back off and back on again, you rebooted the whole house, and it still doesn't work. Like now you're right back where you began.Barry Luijbregts  21:17 Right. Plus, if it worked, then you didn't know why you fixed it. So you didn't know the actual root cause?Don Jones  21:24 Yeah, because you've rebooted your computer, you've rebooted your cable modem, you've rebooted your Wi Fi access point, like, You changed several different things all at once. And so if it happens again, you still don't actually know what the problem was.Barry Luijbregts  21:39 Exactly. So that's a very important thing as well. So I once worked on an application that had some mathematical equations. And I didn't really understand what the equations did, but I knew what went in them and what the outcome would be of them. So I had this sheet and I just would program these equations. into the application, I would put the input in, and then the outputs would show and everything would be fine. But except one of these equations just didn't work for me. Whatever I put in them, the outcome was never correct. So I started troubleshooting. As in, I started to tweak the equation, where I didn't really know what it did. But at some point, it worked for me with multiple types of inputs. I just got the correct outputs out there. But I didn't really know what changed. And the trouble with that was like three months after, when I was working on something else, it actually did break because somebody inputted something that I didn't foresee. And the equation was actually not correct yet. But I thought it was, but I just didn't know the root cause and so I couldn't actually test if I actually fixed the issue. Don Jones  22:56 So that's yeah, important. It is and most of us In all of life, we deal with black boxes. You know, we deal with a lot of things that we don't necessarily know what's going on inside your, your microwave, your Wi Fi router, your television. So the idea is in troubleshooting is to get to the smallest black box possible, like eliminate as many of them as you can. Like, I realized that television is a very complicated device. But I can only troubleshoot to the entire TV, I can't crack it open and have the ability to test the individual circuits inside of it. So what I'm going to do is maybe test it with a couple of different devices to see if the device is the problem. I want to get it down to as few black boxes as possible. So maybe I'm going to disconnect every single HDMI cable and just see if the TV by itself works with nothing attached to it but power. Because if that does, well that's my wolf proof fence. I now know that the TV as a black box is probably fine. Maybe it's my Roku box, or my blu ray player or something else. And now I can start building fences around each of those and testing them, even though I can't fix them inside. My solution just might be, oh, I've got to go get a new blu ray player. But I took it down to that smallest black box level.Barry Luijbregts  24:19 Right. For you for your level of knowledge of the problems of permeability. Yeah. So in it, what we often get is when the support department, they just give us a bug, or an issue from a user, that might be a bit vague, might be like, something went wrong, basically with almost no info. What happened to me a lot is that I get these bugs and issues and I couldn't really reproduce them, not on my machine and not even on the test environment and not even in production. These are the so called no repo bugs. What do you do in that case? Because it's actually Something that a user experiences, but I can't really test it. Don Jones  25:07 You're, you're you're kind of just on the first step, what you've done there is, you've, you've built a wolf proof fence, but you've got to be really clear about what it contains. It contains this particular dev or test system. It includes this particular set of data. And so you write down what those assumptions were what is inside that fence, then you need to probably go to the users machine and see how many of those assumptions are true there. Does it still work? I'm going to use the same set of test data does it work when I use the same process? And that's where you'll often find out that you weren't really building the wolf proof fence. You thought you are the users like oh, no, I have caps off caps lock on all the time. Ah, okay. I didn't take that into account. And so my fence had an opening I need to, you know, include that in there now. So it's it's really about understanding the environment. It's in a good analogy, you know, to go back to the wolf is the title of the wolf is how do you find a wolf in Siberia? If you're looking in Alaska, you never will. And so you've got to troubleshoot the actual problem, not necessarily a recreation of the problem. And that often means, you know, going on site, if my if my air conditioner in the house broke, and I called the manufacturer support line, and they said, Well, our air conditioner here is the same model and ours works just fine. like nobody would say that that was a valid troubleshooting test. Obviously, my air conditioner is different from the one they have back in their office. And they're going to have to come out here and test my air conditioner.Barry Luijbregts  26:47 Yeah, that's, that's such a powerful thing. You know, as a developer, we all always try to reproduce the bug. Yeah, of course, because then if we fix it or if we thought we we have a fixed then we contest if it actually occurs again. But obviously, you should then also look at the actual problem that happens. So do logs on the server when it actually happened, or wherever that was maybe on the user's machine.Don Jones  27:13 Yeah, and creating your code to have diagnostics is important. If I was able to crack open my television, well, I'll do a better one in my car, because I actually can work on my car a little bit. I know I've got the manual from the manufacturer on how to maintain that thing. And I know what to measure. Right? It says, okay, you know, if you measure the electricity here, it should read this. airflow should be this. Those are all things that if I've got the right equipment, I can get in and measure because they have instrumented the car to make troubleshooting easier. They've created instrumentation to make it easier to build a wolf proof fence around a certain system. If this voltage is at this level, then it is not the charging system, you move on to the next possible thing. Some software developers are Really good at that, and others are really not good at that. To go back to query example for as an example, it's, it's a good one, if you've taken the time to put a query into a variable so that you can set a watch on it in your in your IDP, then you should also probably have a debug debugging option that an end user could turn on to output that same thing to a log, like whatever you would do in your ID to troubleshoot whatever you would look at is something that should be enable, so that the end user who doesn't have an ID and doesn't have your source code can produce the same diagnostic information that you would be accustomed to looking at in an ID so that you can kind of debug over there without having to worry about all the variables that are involved, like all the variables just get built in when it's when it's running in that situation. Barry Luijbregts  28:53 Yeah, totally agree. Absolutely. Log everything that you can and if you if you don't have a very sophisticated tools, you can always use print statements, as in just write out some text. This happened at this point in time with yes type of variables. Yep, that's always useful even for performance improvements and things like that. So as we are coming to the end of the episode, let me just share one big failure of myself. I was once troubleshooting a system that had a bug, it was a website, a very busy websites with 10s of thousands of people that were actually on it on production. But the bug was only in production. And it was a very big one that actually cost a lot of money. So we couldn't really track it down. In the end, we've decided to debug production. And this was before you had the snapshot debugger. So you actually had to attach a debugger to the production process in the server in production. We did that. And then I hit a breakpoint. And I was just sitting there with Looking at the variables of the breakpoint, and then I found a bug. And later on I fixed it. What I didn't realize was that whilst the breakpoint was hit, the website was actually stopped. Yeah, because the probe was stopped. And so the website was actually down for a couple of minutes for a lot of people, which also cost a lot of money. This was a quite a big mistake of mine. Now, nowadays, you can use a snapshot debugger, which is something in Azure, for instance, that also attaches to the process, but just emulates debugging. So it takes a snapshot of the current variables and then sends that over to you as kind of a log or something that you can use on your local machine without stopping the process. There wasn't very smart of me, but it happens. You know, you live in you learn. Do you have any of those?troubleshoot troubleshooting failure stories?Don Jones  30:58 Oh, gosh, yes. We we have a cabin up in the mountains. And if you have a cabin up there, it's hard to get contractor so you kind of learn to do everything yourself. And we had when we came in after reopening it after the winter, we've got a few things that we need to check for. Just you know, burst pipes, things like that. So we checked under the sink and really good about Okay, well, we'll turn the water back on, but we'll have someone out by the meter. So you can just scream real loud if there's a leak and we'll shut it back off and everything was okay. This was a couple years ago. And we were there for probably a week or two. I went outside to water some plants and we have a hose connection on the outside and I opened it up and everybody else comes screaming out of the cabin. Shut it off, shut it off, shut it off.It's like I crank it down real quick. Well, we had forgot to test the complete system. The pipe was fine running up to the hose connection. But that hose connection is actually that a 15 inch long metal tube that sticks through the wall and When you open the valve, it had burst over the winter. And so it started raining into the basement. And really thought we had proactively been troubleshooting the system by turning it on and running around and turning all the faucets on. But we didn't build our fence, we left an opening, because we didn't test everything. And so, we we have something that's a little bit like a unit test. It's a checklist. And so now we have a list that includes that. So we added a unit test for our hose bib on the outside. And now we know to check that and have someone standing by on the water just in case. It was a huge mess. It cost quite a bit of money to fix. So we definitely learned the lesson. Well. Barry Luijbregts  32:44 All right. Well, this has been absolutely great. I've learned a ton about troubleshooting. If people are looking for more information about troubleshooting, obviously, they can read your book. Are there any other resources that you can recommend, especially for developers, where they can learn about troubleshooting. Don Jones  33:05 Yeah, there's not unfortunately there's there's, I believe the website is troubleshooting.com. That was the resource I first came across. Some people may find that that his approach works really, really well. For them. It's not different than mine, he just kind of explains it differently in a way that didn't land as well, for me and some of the folks had spoken to. I think it really gets down to practices. I think, what I would suggest, especially for a developer is to read a lot about debugging, like even if you're an expert debugger, that's fine. Read about it, because every time you read a technique, okay, you know, you can put a breakpoint here and then go set a watch and look at a variable. Think about how could I do that proactively to make troubleshooting easier? Like what is it I could have done in advance to make this whole failure process simpler for me and adopt those as some of your standard practices, it's obviously going to differ between languages. toolsets and platforms. So you know, whatever yours is really figure those things out and think about what is hard about this and what evidence could I be producing proactively to make it better? Barry Luijbregts  34:12 Right. That is excellent advice. Thank you so much for your time. We'll see you next time. Bye bye.

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This week, Vince Wood, Sam Larch and Josh Duffney wade into the shallow end of the DevOps/SRE pool. Josh explains some aspects of the role while also sharing that his days are like. Josh gives some great advice for anyone who might be interested in a similar journey as his. Hint: Learn to love learning. Josh can be found on Twitter or at his blog, as well as LinkedIn. Links mentioned in this episode: “How I went from aimless to an SRE at StackOverflow in less than a year.” Be the Master Workshop by Don Jones. You're an Engineer, Be one. ITR Slack

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Don Jones, Vice President of Partner Content at Pluralsight, interviews Tanya E. Moore, Eric Geis and Gary Beach about what technology skill development is and why it matters. All four leaders are contributors to the recently-released book, Perspectives on Technology Skill Development. Download the ebook or audiobook version of Perspectives on Technology Skill Development for free

Episode 1:  Calloway County injury attorney Jeff Roberts discusses his background and why he focuses on helping other people.  He handles personal injury cases, automobile accidents, workers' compensation claims and social security disability claims.  His office is located in Murray, Kentucky. Jeff grew up in Mayfield and went to Murray State University.  He later earned his law degree from Southern Illinois University Law School, in Carbondale.  He returned to Murray to practice with Don Jones, in 1992.  He's been practicing in the same building ever since.  He became a partner in the firm and took it over, upon the death of Mr. Jones in 2000. Jeff is licensed to practice law in Kentucky.  He covers cases throughout the Western Kentucky region and beyond.  However, for social security disability claims he's admitted to practice in all 50 states.  Social security claims are handled in the federal system.  He also has experience as an assistant county attorney prosecuting criminal cases.  He also maintains his trial skills by handling child neglect and child neglect cases on a weekly basis.  Representing clients who've been injured in tractor trailer collisions also helps Jeff work on extremely complicated cases, involving the federal motor carriers act.  Sometimes, those cases also involve related products liability cases against the manufacturers of equipment (such as tire manufacturers). The most heart-wrenching cases are those involving wrongful death claims.  These can result from car wrecks, truck wrecks and other cases.  Jeff spends part of this episode explaining contingency fee agreements, evaluating offers from the insurance adjusters and important decisions regarding taking a case to trial.  For more information, visit www.JeffRobertsLaw.com. This podcast is meant to provide information and is not legal advice.  Jeff's principal office is located at 509 Main Street, Murray, Kentucky.  Co-host Jim Ray is a non-attorney spokesperson.  This is an advertisement.  

In this episode, we interview farrier legend Don Jones who has been shoeing horses for more than fifty-three years. He was a former farrier school instructor for more than eight years and also founded NC Tool. He started his career as a barber and married the daughter of a blacksmith (whose family had been shoeing for six generations). You'll get a lot of valuable advice and insights from this expert blacksmith and farrier.

Hoy viernes 20 de marzo de 2020 el Banco de la República refuerza medidas para asegurar la liquidez de la economía en pesos y dólares, para ello, Autorizó a las entidades aseguradoras a participar en las subastas de repos con títulos de deuda pública (y a la ventanilla) y con deuda privada. Se extiende el plazo de las operaciones de liquidez (REPOS) con títulos de deuda privada a 90 días. Hasta hoy, el plazo máximo había sido de 30 días. Asimismo, se extiende el plazo de las operaciones de liquidez (REPOS) con títulos de deuda pública a 60 días. Se subastarán Swaps de dólares (FX Swaps) por US$400 millones, en los cuales el Banco de la República venderá dólares de contado y los comprará a futuro (en 60 días). Por otro lado, Cerraron Nueva York con el fin de contener la exponencial propagación del Covid-19 Indicadores de bolsa S&P500 -4,34% Don Jones -4,55% Nasdaq -3,79% Euro Stoxx 50 +3,85% DAX Alemania +3,80% CAC 40 francia +5,01% FTSE 100 londres +0,76% Colcap +2,21%

Hoy jueves 19 de marzo de 2020 el petróleo repunto en los mercados internacionales, el WTI aumento 23,8% con una cotización de 25,22 USD y la referencia Brent aumentó 14,47% con una cotización de 28,49 USD, este repunte se presentó por diferentes estímulos que en los últimos días presentaron los Bancos Centrales, sin embargo, se espera que la calma sea ocasional. Recordemos que el domingo la FED disminuyó el tipo de interés a casi cero, lo mismo sucedió con la Banca Central en Japón, que el lunes disminuyó los tipos de interés, y ayer el Banco Central de Brasil bajo de 4% a 3,75% el tipo de interés, y el Banco de Inglaterra recortó los tipos al 0,1% y aumentó las compras de deuda, la Banca Central está inyectando dinero a la economía con distintas herramientas de politica monetaria expansionista, con el fin, de mitigar el impacto de la crisis económica que se espera ocasione el Covid-19. Los indices bursatiles en la jornada de hoy tambien reaccionaron ligeramente de manera positiva, el S&P500 aumentó 0,47%, el Don Jones aumentó 0,95%, el Nasdaq +2,30%, el Euro Stoxx 50 aumentó 2,86% y el Colcap aumentó 0,64% Finalmente, la acción de Ecopetrol se ubicó en 1.420 COP un aumento de 40 pesos lo que generó un crecimiento del 2,90%, el día de ayer, la acción se cotizaba en 1.380COP.

In Episode 23, I interview Don Jones, author of the book "Be The Master: Achieve Success & Help Others." Don Jones is a self-taught technology professional, starting as a night-shift AS/400 operator. He grew into tech leadership, and for over a decade as a freelance writer, speaker, and classroom teacher. Today he’s a Vice President for a major technology skills management firm. Don Jones’ formal education ended with his four-year aircraft mechanic apprenticeship. For everything else, he’s relied on experience, self-learning, and a massive amount of support from past and current bosses, leaders, and mentors.Initially, Jones thought that he would never become a technologist. He was told in high school because he did not plan to attend college that he would not be successful in this field. How many of you have been told that "You are not a good fit" for that job? If you count yourself among those who raised their hands, this is a MUST listen to the podcast interview, and "Be The Boss" is a MUST purchase book (Please see the end of the Show Notes for information on how to Purchase the Book).Thinking of launching a business? Please check out my book, Guerrillapreneur: Small Business Strategy for Davids Wanting to Defeat Goliath, available on Amazon, Barnes, and Noble, and iTunes Bookstore and more. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BR9YNWO/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_vHAaDb4MP6K8PIf you like Career Coaching Xs and Os, then you might also like my other two business podcasts, Guerrillapreneur: The Art of Waging Small Business Warfare (Mastermind Interviews with Entrepreneurs, Consultants, and Business Mavericks) and Gigging: Everything and Sharing Economy (news and predictions about the Sharing Economy).If you like this episode, please subscribe to this podcast and leave us a comment. Please share this episode with your colleagues. Follow us on Twitter @ceyeroconsltg and Instagram and Facebook @ceyeroconsulting. Find us on the web at https://www.ceyero.com.Need help developing a business pitch for your startup or small business? Check out my online course "How To Develop A Winning Business Pitch" https://ceyero-consulting-eschool.thinkific.com/courses/how-to-develop-a-winning-business-pitch. The course is only $39.00.Guest Information:Name: Don JonesTwitter: @concentrateddonBook: Be The Master: Achieve Success & Help OthersPurchase URL: https://donjones.com/books/non-tech-nonfiction/

Wouldn't you rather your life be measured by the number of lives you've helped succeed? In the really old days, much of our working-class society revolved around Masters, who would take on apprentices and bring them up in a trade. We've mostly lost that kind of education in our everyday lives, and it's a shame. Part of the reason is that, as individuals, we often fail to recognize that we even have something worth teaching and sharing, or because we don't feel we've achieved a sufficient level of success to be seen as "Master" by someone else. That's all wrong. Every one of us has something to offer, and we're more than worthy. Sure, maybe you need a certain level of success in order to carve out the time to help others, but that's a straightforward journey. These are a few of the challenges that Don Jones tackles in his book Be The Master. It explored new ways to recognize that you are worthy of sharing what you know. It's a step-by-step, actionable guide to defining and achieving whatever you see as "success." And it's a way of using that success to help other people achieve theirs - and in turn, becoming even more successful yourself. Don Jones currently works for a company that develops self-paced learning content (videos, interactive projects, and the like) to teach information technology subjects to people all over the world. But I wanted to learn more about his inspirational journey in the tech industry. Prior to that, he was mainly known for being a big fan of Microsoft's Windows PowerShell, a product that's included with their Windows operating system and which is designed to facilitate the automation of IT administration and operations. It's also available cross-platform as just "PowerShell," these days. Don Jones has written, and co-authored numerous books on PowerShell and Microsoft has recognized him with their annual MVP Award since 2003. Don also help run PowerShell.org, the PowerShell Summit events, the Scripting Games, and a slew of other PowerShell-related things. Don can also be found speaking at several conferences worldwide each year, mostly about PowerShell and even teach classes, both public and private, about the technology. I have also agreed on a permanent discount code (good for all our products in all formats) at Manning Publications for listeners to the Tech Talks Daily Podcast. Simply use the promotion code podtechtalks20.

Í þessum þætti tölum við um Powershell, hvernig það tengist command prompt og linux skeljum (bash) og hvernig er hægt að koma sér af stað og læra. Hlekkir í efnið sem við töluðum um í þættinum: Powershell samfélagið á Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerShell/ Pistlar frá Gísla Guðmundssyni um fyrstu skrefin í Powershell: https://medium.com/@gisligud/powershell-to-the-people-1fa13fae404f Mjög ítarlegt kennslu efni á CBT Nuggets frá Don Jones: https://www.cbtnuggets.com/it-training/microsoft-windows-powershell-2-3-4 Powershell in a mont of lunches: https://www.manning.com/books/learn-windows-powershell-in-a-month-of-lunches-third-edition

What does it take to get your team learning new skills? Richard chats with Don Jones about the entire learning process in the IT profession. Don discusses outcomes - why are we learning? What new skills will help the company? Answering these questions leads to budgets and times, but also commitment and deadlines. You can't just learn for fun (although you should), you have to provide value to the company. The good news is, we already learn all the time, we just have to remember that we do!

Cleveland's three best podcasters Dev The Voice, Don Jones and Bed5ide have returned for another fire episode where they discuss The Passing of the rapper Juice World, When They See Us getting snubbed at the Golden Globe's and if Lizzo was doing too much at the Lakers game and would we be judging Rhianna or the Kardashians for wearing the same thing. You definitely don't want to miss this weeks episode because the guys talked about every last controversial event going on in the social media world. Host: @Devthevoice @bed5ide @donjones Please remember to Like, Subscribe and Vibe to all of our content and social media pages: IG @outrighteouspodcast Twitter @outrighteouspod Or contact us via social media or email us @outrighteouspodcast@gmail.com Produced by: Outrighteous Content Creation

On this episode Flames P. Previews a new track feat. Don Jones. Entitled “GO FAST”.We use the song as a way to Segway into reasons why you don’t rush into things. Then they talk about Proper spades etiquette, Tyler Perry’s movie moves, Top rap albums, and hip hop police.This episode was sponsored by Bullrush Gin

What is it to teach, and what is it to learn when you're in IT? Richard chats with Don Jones about his on-going work on his book Be The Master and how it has evolved since its first publication in 2018. Don talks about how readers connected with him around the book and discussed their own efforts in mastery and teaching - which encouraged Don to revise the book! Remembering how we learn helps inform how to teach, and teaching strengthens knowledge, so everyone benefits - and there's a lot to know!

Episode 13, DeJuan Marrero talked with with Gary, Indiana native, Mr. Don Jones. Don is the general manager for the notorious restaurant Batter and Berries located in Chicago, Illinois on the north side of town. Don breaks down on how he got established with Batter and Berries, his day to day operations as a GM, and how he keeps his balance between work life and being a father of two. He also discusses the variety of food that is popular on the menu and the ingredients in his crowd pleasing chicken and waffle. Link in Bio! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dejuan-marrero/support

Also known as Schoolgirls In Chains. This debut feature from Don Jones is a better shot film than you'd expect, but it's still pretty sleazy

In this episode, I talk to the legendary Don Jones about the journey from apprentice to master. Don is a VP at Pluralsight and is a well-known tech industry author and speaker who has written over 70 books throughout his career.

newny from cripacola speaks with Don Jones about him being on netflix, killer mike, trigger warning, his hood, being one of the founding fathers of his gang, glocc blocc, his daughter, kawhi leonard, gunna etc etc @300xlocc @etraphousedotcom @theedonjones etraphouse.com

october jonez stops by etraphouse radio to talk with Don Jones about music, current , events, business etc

Byrd The Voice stops by Etraphouse.com to talk with Don Jones

Don Jones, Senior Vice President, Alliance and ecosystems at HCL Technologies, talked with Chip Rodgers, VP Marketing and Alliances at WorkSpan on #AllianceAces podcast.

In this episode, we talk with Don Jones on several topics about PowerShell and the PowerShell community.    For iTunes users, you can find the podcast at the link below or just search for The PowerShell News Podcast.   https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-powershell-news-podcast/id1292825514?mt=2

The challenge of hiring new people into the world of IT is getting harder every day - what does it take to grow your skilled staff? Richard talks with Don Jones about his book Be the Master, where Don focuses on the fact that there are plenty of apprentices out there, but not enough masters to teach them well. And the masters exist - it's just easy to forget that you know things that others don't know, and need to know. The conversation spans around where learning responsibilities lie - it's not going to be the tools vendors like Microsoft, and while organizations that need skilled people need to support learning, ultimately it comes down to us - we need to want to learn and grow!

In this episode, we discuss Don Jones's post about PowerShell Core, what it is, and what it means for PowerShell.  For iTunes users, you can find the podcast at the link below or just search for The PowerShell News Podcast.  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-powershell-news-podcast/id1292825514?mt=2   

Desired State Configuration continues to evolve, are you? Richard chats with Missy Januszko about her work (with Don Jones) on The DSC Book. DSC is short for Desired State Configuration, and a key part of PowerShell and the Windows Management Framework. Missy talks about how DSC is a key part of creating 'cattle' style infrastructure, where servers can be replaced on demand and changes are handled through code, not mouse-clicks. The conversation digs into the limits of the 'cattle-ness' of servers and what moves easily to the model and what doesn't. The DSC Book is a 'forever' book from LeanPub and is routinely updated!

PowerShell is ten years old! How did that happen! Richard chats with Don Jones about his on-going enthusiasm for PowerShell creating the awesome PowerShell.org website and summit. The conversation turns to what PowerShell is like today - a mature product that is well supported throughout the Microsoft ecosystem and beyond. Don discusses the excitement around building your own automation in ways that help you deeply understand your infrastructure. Today the young product in the suite of tools is Desired State Configuration (DSC), which got a minor update in Server 2016, but can still do more. Don is building Tug, an open source pull service for DSC that can put even more control in your hands. Check it out!

Ready for a new version of Desired State Configuration (DSC)? Richard chats with Don Jones about the second version of DSC, although it's bundled as part of The Windows Management Framework 5.0. Don discusses the evolving nature of server management and DSC's role in it, and how the tools need to improve to manage your scripts and configuration files. The conversation also turns to testing, and the tool Pester on GitHub as the ideal way to do testing for PowerShell. Don also suggests that if you're new to PowerShell, the ideal way to learn it is in the context of DSC - it gets you focused on a few key capabilities that can provide a ton of power!

Volunteers are spending their Saturday in front of the Cranford Municipal Building installing a rain garden. Nelson Dittmar, Jr., the chairman of the Cranford Environmental Commission, and Don Jones, an associate member, took some time out from their work to tell Cranford Radio a bit about the project.

Discover more about Don Jones, The Wizard and his inspiring collection of children’s stories. The stories help achieve our mission to provide the space, place and opportunity for children and adults to reconnect with mother nature. Our goal change the destructive route of the human race one child/person at a time with love, peace and creativity.

It's been quite a while since I talked to Jon on the podcast, but I asked him to keep tabs on the NFL draft as a passive Browns fan who is married to a real Browns fan. We ended up talking a lot about draft value, trades, Johnny Football, Josh Gordon's impending suspension and the cultural moment of Michael Sam being drafted.  In addition we talked about the Miami Dolphins' punishment of Don Jones for his two tweets about the Michael Sam kiss on television. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Don Jones on PowerShell Desired State Configuration

Don Jones on the PowerShell Scripting Games

Don Jones on PowerShell toolmaking and more!

Don Jones speaking at the Atlanta PowerShell User group meeting in September 2011 about PowerShell v3

Don Jones on PowerShell v3 and Button Monkeys!

Parind Shah from Dell on EqualLogic and their new PowerShell module!   News This segment is brought to you by Start-Automating   Start Scripting to Your Fullest Potential.  At Start-Automating, we can help you unleash the full Power of PowerShell V2.  You can use our deep PowerShell expertise to build rich PowerShell solutions, or we can train you to use PowerShell like a pro. Isn’t it time you Save-Time, Save-Money, and Start-Automating?  Find out more at Start-Automating.com.   Marc van Orsouw will be running the PowerShell Script Club in Zurich Feb 1st Don Jones is seeking input on his upcoming advanced-level PowerShell book. Leave your comments on his blog! PowerWF celebrates a new release: 2.4 just shipped and includes PowerSE, a "Script Editor, console, intellisense, and powerful debugger" Idera ships PowerShell Plus v4 beta! New to us, /n Software released PowerShell eXplorer to the iTunes Market for IOS devices Interview The news is brought to you by Don Jones' 2011 PowerShell Retreat in Las Vegas   Links:   http://www.equallogic.com/ http://virtualisedreality.com/2010/12/17/dell-equallogic-powershell-quick-reference-guide/ http://delltechcenter.com/   Chatroom Buzz: 21:47 ##when is storage monitoring coming to PowerShell? 21:49 ## have your tried to get a consistent PowerShell story with other SAN manufacturers like Compellent? 21:54 # was the top-down part of the push for PowerShell management part of an overall push @ dell?  There are a lot of dell hardware that could use specialized management 21:54 # what do you have in mind for the 2nd release? 22:08 right now there are 13 pages of jobs of PowerShell on LinkedIn 23:44 @ joel, sure, but debug/verbose/warning are the lamest of all streams Superhero: Software X-Ray Vision aka The Debugger aka BugBuster aka RAID! Resources   This segment is brought to you by SAPIEN Technologies   Windows PowerShell Survival Guide Create DNS PTR records from PowerShell James Brundage made a cool add-on for PowerGUI to control advanced PowerShell options Jaykul writes about using parentheses in PowerShell The Scripting Guys have an article on parsing the event log using Get-WinEvent Aaron Nelson has been posting PowerShell Week at SQL University info. More about SQL University is at SQLChicken.com Don Jones has a bunch of PowerShell videos on his YouTube channel!   Tips This segment brought to you by ServerFault.com   From Ravi: Use Dropbox to share profiles across multiple systems Get your logging on: Oisin's script logger module Jaykul's NLog module Doug Finke's PSLog (also an NLog wrapper) Log4Posh: PowerShell Log4Net wrapper What the heck is Finally for? (as in Try..Catch..Finally) Clear an AD attribute   One-Liner of the Week! Get-Service | Add-Member ScriptMethod ToString { $this.Name } -Force -PassThru | Group-Object StatusAnd here is the PS1XML version

Richard and Greg talk to Don Jones about PowerShell. The conversation starts off with a discussion on the fundamentals of PowerShell, but then dives into specific techniques and tools to make folks more productive with PowerShell. The show wraps up with exploring some favorite PowerShell projects. There's a ton of great information about PowerShell at Don's web site shellhub.com.

Don Jones on script editors, and more!

Kathi and Don Jones interview, The Originator; Rapper Jaz-O. We will be discussing his upcoming projects, musical aspirations and his ongoing public rift with Rapper Jay-Z.

Kathi and Don Jones interview, The Originator; Rapper Jaz-O. We will be discussing his upcoming projects, musical aspirations and his ongoing public rift with Rapper Jay-Z.

Jeffrey Snover, Don Jones, Alex Reidel, Kirk Munro

Don Jones on CTP2