Streamlining Your Life: How to Simplify Your Accounts
Management Overhead Last year, I noticed that I spent a lot of my time on managing my finances. I moved and changed jobs twice. I created Gears of Geek domain and changed my primary...
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DevOps Books – Visible Ops Handbook
The Visible Ops Handbook Review The Visible Ops Handbook by Gene Kim is a good, short read at 112 pages that can get you up to speed on DevOps methodology with a leaning to towards...
[PCCD] Mass Effect 2 and 3 DLC Bundles on Origin
Origin is selling Mass Effect DLC bundles for much less than previously. I bought them for PS3 last year and it was about $100 for everything. The...
Site is Moving
The site might go offline for a week or two as I look for a new hosting solution. I made a local copy of the site so that nothing will be lost. I’ll probably...
Happy New Year from Gears of Geek
It’s a new year , and we’re putting together a whole new look, exciting new content, and new tools for our readys. These will be rolled out over this year to make this site...
Do You Use Apple Stock Apps or 3rd Party Apps?
The App Struggle Is Real I’ve been going back and forth between using Apple apps for what I call “Core” functionality – Calendar , Email, Web Browsing, Task management, Notes , Photo Management ,...
Soft Skills: The Software Developer’s Life Manual
Soft Skills: The Software Developer’s Life Manual by John Z. Sonmez Purchasing items linked to by the article give the site a small affiliate reward and helps us keep the lights on. The Book...
Essential Mac Apps
A new Mac user can easily become overwhelmed be the sheet number of applications that they need to sift through while looking for the best Mac apps for each task that they wish to...
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland. You’ll get an overview of how the Agile methodology called Scrum works and examples of how it can be applied...
Introduction to Virtualized Home Labs and Why You Should Have One
What is a Virtualized Home Lab A virtualized home lab can give your career a boost by enabling you to learn how to install, configure, operate, and maintain cutting-edge technologies that are in demand...