Steve Mactaggart

Steve Mactaggart

Father to 4 amazing kids, Collingwood supporter and passionate technologist.

Currently an Application Delivery Evangineer at Cevo Australia.

Posts by Tags

agile

apache

Whats your stack?

6 minute read

At work one of our standard interview questions is for the interviewee to describe their current stack, from Operating System through to front end libraries ...

arduino

Arduino based build light system

2 minute read

I’ve been looking at an Arduino for a few years now, but never really had the drive to pick one up, or the project to use it on. But after the recent move f...

aws

Census 2.0

8 minute read

In light of the #CensusFail the ABS delivered to us on Tuesday night, I thought I’d put a blog post where my mouth is and suggest an architecture I feel woul...

Whats your stack?

6 minute read

At work one of our standard interview questions is for the interviewee to describe their current stack, from Operating System through to front end libraries ...

base2services

What is DevOps?

less than 1 minute read

I joined the team from Base2Services, Emergency Management Victoria and Service Stream to discuss what we think defines devops.

best-practice

You’re doing it wrong if…

2 minute read

We are all looking to learn from our failures and make things better, but sometimes it better to communicate what is right by eliminating what is wrong. “Wh...

bootstrap

Sample SpringMVC starter application

less than 1 minute read

Getting started on any project or technology is a surprisingly hard task. Once you have a codebase setup you can easily extend it by finding an existing exa...

buildlights

Arduino based build light system

2 minute read

I’ve been looking at an Arduino for a few years now, but never really had the drive to pick one up, or the project to use it on. But after the recent move f...

capistrano

Whats your stack?

6 minute read

At work one of our standard interview questions is for the interviewee to describe their current stack, from Operating System through to front end libraries ...

chef

Whats your stack?

6 minute read

At work one of our standard interview questions is for the interviewee to describe their current stack, from Operating System through to front end libraries ...

cloudwatch

devops

The Four values of a devops transformation

6 minute read

Just like the agile transformations of the past, there is a difference between ‘Doing Agile’, and ‘Being Agile’. ‘We do standups’ - therefore we are Agile. ...

What is DevOps?

less than 1 minute read

I joined the team from Base2Services, Emergency Management Victoria and Service Stream to discuss what we think defines devops.

JMX timeseries data

3 minute read

When looking at monitoring Java applications it seems that JMX is still one of the best standard ways to get information from your application and applicatio...

git

Whats your stack?

6 minute read

At work one of our standard interview questions is for the interviewee to describe their current stack, from Operating System through to front end libraries ...

Dipping a toe in git

1 minute read

I’ve run into some limitations of the EnVers addon to Hibernate that required me to dig into the Hibernate source code and look at pushing up some changes. ...

hibernate

Sample SpringMVC starter application

less than 1 minute read

Getting started on any project or technology is a surprisingly hard task. Once you have a codebase setup you can easily extend it by finding an existing exa...

java

Whats your stack?

6 minute read

At work one of our standard interview questions is for the interviewee to describe their current stack, from Operating System through to front end libraries ...

jekyll

Welcome to the new site

1 minute read

Welcome to the re-imagined blog for Steve Mactaggart. After failure caused the loss of the old site, when handed lemons, lemonade is the answer.

librato

Whats your stack?

6 minute read

At work one of our standard interview questions is for the interviewee to describe their current stack, from Operating System through to front end libraries ...

newrelic

Whats your stack?

6 minute read

At work one of our standard interview questions is for the interviewee to describe their current stack, from Operating System through to front end libraries ...

nodejs

sensu

Whats your stack?

6 minute read

At work one of our standard interview questions is for the interviewee to describe their current stack, from Operating System through to front end libraries ...

springmvc

Sample SpringMVC starter application

less than 1 minute read

Getting started on any project or technology is a surprisingly hard task. Once you have a codebase setup you can easily extend it by finding an existing exa...

ubuntu

Ubuntu server and ufw firewall

less than 1 minute read

I think I have now standardised my server choice to ubuntu server. It seems to have everything I need available as packaged and more importantly supports ve...

Installed Ubuntu Breezy by name

2 minute read

After having my laptop grind to a halt with all the clogware that comes with windows, I decided it was time to re-build her. I had just got the updated APC m...

ufw

Ubuntu server and ufw firewall

less than 1 minute read

I think I have now standardised my server choice to ubuntu server. It seems to have everything I need available as packaged and more importantly supports ve...

update

Welcome to the new site

1 minute read

Welcome to the re-imagined blog for Steve Mactaggart. After failure caused the loss of the old site, when handed lemons, lemonade is the answer.

vmware

Updating VMWare after new Kernel

less than 1 minute read

As I am running Ubuntu, I get kernel updates automatically.. This is cool and fine except that VMWare is built for each kernel. Once the kernel is updated ...