#44: Glad to be here

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about affordances, partnerships, and a bunch of reasons Red Hat is a great place to work.

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• Gunnar gets angry about DRM all over again and gets a ChromeCast while Dave is still thrilled with his Roku 3
• Google buys SlickLogin, a startup out to kill the password with sound
• If you can’t wait for the book or movie, check out the D&G Origin Story
• Fork your own agency open source policy
• “Run me on OpenShift”
• Dave bait: Dear Car Makers: Please Hire People Like This
  • Affordance



• So we don’t get hate mail from Langdon White: Check out DevNation April 13-17 in San Francisco!


• Get the lowest rate for the Red Hat Summit by going through your Red Hat account team
  • kpatch! Learn more here



• Dave on a panel about How to Acquire and Implement Secure Cloud Solutions at the Symantec Government Symposium


• The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence welcomes Red Hat as a National Cybersecurity Excellence Partner


• Alcatel-Lucent and Dell are using Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform for (Software Defined) Networking


• Red Hat Storage 2.1 released!
  • Test drive this and more on AWS!



• Red Hat Urges Supreme Court to Address Impediments to Innovation


• The Best Cloud Computing Companies And CEOs To Work For In 2014


• A lifehacker we like: Dave and Gunnar review Jim Whitehurst’s productivity tricks


• Speaking of CEOs: How to Write Emails Like a CEO
  • Email signature rules of engagement: the now-defunct protocol.by
  • See the archived protocol builder
  • related: remember geekcode?



• Is that a wallabag in place of Pocket or …?

Cutting Room Floor

• Using Civ IV in schools: ENDORSED
  • Tom Lee: “it’s especially vital now as the current generation of granary workers prepares to retire”



• HT Uzoma Nwosu: Exploring regional listening preferences


• The to-be-created OpenShift app of the week: Infinifriends sitcom script generator


• Bitcoins vs. Beanie Babies


• Plague Doctors are terrifying


• Guinea pig alternative: The sugar glider

We Give Thanks

• AT&T U-verse for a great customer support experience.
• Jim Whitehurst for being a CEO we admire.
• Tom Lee for reminding us of the granary workers.
• Uzoma Nwosu for letting Dave know that Florida Georgia Line exists and is really popular in Ohio.
• Chris Williams found a bug in our mp3 encoding. Thanks, Chris! Problem fixed.