Bob Gourley

What The Enterprise IT Professional Needs To Know About Git and GitHub

Bob Gourley April 22, 2014

GitHub is so hot right now I know you have heard of it and you may even have your own account there. But we are finding GitHub to be of use in ways far more than we expected it to be and think it may disrupt (in a good way) many business processes that it was not meant to disrupt. So even if your duties do not require you to use GitHub we suggest you stay up to speed on the functionality of this new system.

Doing that also requires at least a basic understanding of GIT. The two are related. Think of GIT as version control on your computer and GitHub as version control on the web.

What is Git?

Git is a software source code version control system. It records changes to a file (or sets of files) over time so specific versions can be recalled later. Git is free open source software that runs on most computers. It is designed to be used in a distributed way and can handle large or small projects and serve large or small teams of coders. Git is the most popular implementation of version control in use. It helps you store things in a local repository (call it a “repo”) on your computer.

One of the reason GIT came to dominate the version control field is its branching model and ease of creating, merging and recovering software code files. Developers can create a new branch of code, try out some ideas, decide to keep some ideas (by “committing” them) or discard them or just leave them around till later. GIT supports many different roles on development teams and it does so in ways that reduces error and makes continuous improvement easy.

Since GIT allows for distributed coding, large teams of coders can work together on projects in ways that do not require a single coder to “check out” the code for modification. Instead of checking out the code in a way that no one else can touch it, you clone it. GIT supports many ways for teams to manage this distributed process so chaos is not an issue.

It is very easy to download and learn and run GIT. To do so, just visit the website at http://git-scm.com/downloads

After you download the right version of GIT, open your command line or terminal window and type “git help -a” for a list of commands. Type “git help -g” for a list of concept guides.

If you are interested in really learning how GIT and GitHub work, create a user name and tell GIT your email address of choice, and remember those for our discussion below on GitHub and we will link your computer to GitHub. here are two commands to enter:

git config –global user.name “enter a user name”
git config –global user.email “this-is-your@emailaddress.com”

You can certainly dive deeper into GIT now, but I’d recommend holding off till you learn more about GitHub so you can see the power of these two systems together.

What is GitHub?

GitHub is a web-based platform designed to support software development projects that use the GIT revision control system. GitHub’s leaders describe it as a “social coding” site. GitHub can support single programmers/hobbyists to collegial collective teams to very large development efforts. GitHub provides collaborative tools (including wikis, checklists, task management capabilities, feeds, followers, discussion capabilities, pastebin-like sharing) that go far beyond just version control. Although developers are the core users, increasingly GitHub is also being used to manage versions on documents and to share data for analysis. It is also being used to manage creative projects.

When a person creates a GitHub account they also have an ability to add a bio and other features on themselves and to not only store their own project code but to “fork” code from others that have been shared. This copies a repository from one account to the other. If you make changes to that that you want to share back, you can send a “pull request” and the leader of the project can pull the changes in and evaluate them. They can then be merged back in. As this is done, GitHub tracks the developers who are making contributions that get accepted. This shows up on their bio page and is a way of helping others assess that developers credibility. The community will see who the contributors are.

GitHub also provides private capabilities, and those private capabilities can be used by broad, distributed teams.

With that as an introduction, if you have not signed up for an account on GitHub yet you should do so now. It is easy. Just visit http://github.com

Remember to use the same e-mail address you used when configuring GIT on your local system, this will make it easy to connect your local repositories to GitHub.

When you sign up, you can start with the free plan and that is certainly good enough for learning. After signup you will be on a page with some great tutorials. Read through them. Also click on your screen name in the top right corner of the page. View your profile and edit it so others can see a bit more about you.

When you want to create a repository, you can either fork someone else’s or you can create one from scratch. Creating one from scratch is pretty easy. Just hit the “create repository” button and fill in the blanks. Select the box that initializes the repo with a “readme” file and the description you put in the description field will be the start of your Readme file.

Now if you want to see the real power of this system, connect it to your local computer.

Do that by going to the terminal window in your local computer and creating a directory for your repo. (type mkdir ~/myrepo and then cd ~/myrepo)

Then in that directory type git init

Then point your repo to the remote repo on GitHub by typing:

git remote add origin https://github.com/yourgithubusername/yourreponame.git

This is just a start to give you a feel for what is going on here. Now you can make changes to your repository on your computers (you can run Git on as many as you like) and manage them all with GitHub. Although this is designed for coders, you could also do this with other files, creating a distributed (and more manual) version of iCloud or OneDrive or Box for yourself.

Now that you have a feel for this, go back to the website at http://github.com Look around for friends and interesting projects. Read what others are up to, and dont be afraid to fork interesting projects. That’s what this is for!

One to start with is the project page of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Find it at https://github.com/ngageoint

There are so many other things to learn and discuss about GitHub. For example, there are plugins for integrated development environments that make it even easier for GitHub to be used by developers. And their are mobile applications. It really is becoming a platform that other capabilities can be built on and delivered through.

To conclude, there are some things every enterprise technology professional should understand about both GIT and GitHub:

GIT is for your computer. GitHub is on the web and enables social coding. They are related but know the difference.
GitHub is so very virtuous for developers and for software management that it is making a huge impact in code quality.
GitHub is not just for developers. Content creators, analysts and data scientists are also using it. It is about social coding and that will likely always be the focus, but these many other adjacencies can also be transformed by this model.

You Should Run R On Your Computer: Not just for stats, but to know what all the excitement is about

Bob Gourley April 21, 2014

“R” is a freely available language for interacting with your computer that is designed for a wide variety of functions. It is most frequently associated with statistical computing and graphics. R runs on a wide variety of systems, including Mac, Windows, Linux and Unix.

Every analyst who deals with data should have a copy of R and be familiar with it. And every technologist with a desire to track the greatest technologies available should run it as well so you know what the buzz is all about.

Here are some tips to get you up and running fast:

There is a comprehensive archive of all things R related, called “CRAN” for Comprehensive R Archive Network. Visit CRAN here: http://cran.us.r-project.org/

You will immediately see links to Linux, Mac and Windows versions of R. Download and install the one for your system.

That’s it. See how easy that was. Now you have R running on your system. Open it, and look around. One of the greatest things about R is the help functionality. Make that the first menu item you click on. The powerful guidance in the help section can walk you through an introduction to R and have you up and working with real world problems in no time at all.

In coming posts we will provide more tips, including how to install new “packages” to R to expand its functionality.

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Spies Want Your Money: Look at this pinhole camera used to steal credit card numbers

Bob Gourley April 11, 2014

Threats to our information are not only from malware or brute force hacks or social engineering. Criminals are motivated to look for every advantage. Sometimes we read about very sophisticated attacks against hardware that require advanced engineering. But attacks don’t really have to be sophisticated to be successful. Two relatively easy to execute attacks were recently highlighted by the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Their press release is provided below. But first check out these incredible photos:

pin_hole_at_bottom_of_plug_adapter_mounted_to_cable_channel_located_above_mvm_contains_camera — This was placed above a machine used to buy transit authority tickets. When you pull our your credit card and prepare to insert it, the camera in the device records everything. Note how the fake plug looks old and dirty like the surroundings.

battery_pack_resting_on_top_of_cable_channel_with_wire_going_to_camera_2 — From this view you can see a cable from the fake outlet. It runs to a battery pack.

battery_pack_resting_on_top_of_cable_channel_with_wire_going_to_camera (1) — This is a side view that shows the cable into battery pack.

battery_pack_with_wire_going_to_camera_inside_view_after_being_removed_from_mounting_area — After the device was removed the insides can be seen. This is really pretty low tech stuff.

skimmer_after_being_removed_from_mvm_door — This is a different kind of device. Also low tech. It is a skimmer that reads inserted cards.

skimming_device_that_was_removed_by_customer — Another view of the skimmer.

wires_and_battery_of_skimming_device (1) — If you were in a hurry would you have noticed this was a skimmer?

Dangerous New Lows In NASA-Russian Collaboration: Will we cede the Space Station High Ground to Russia?

Bob Gourley April 2, 2014

On the Crimean Peninsula, Russia writes the rules because they control the territory. They control who goes in and who goes out. Anyone who wants access to the Crimea can only do so if Russia allows it. You might have a treaty that says it is not supposed to be that way, but the fact is, Russia is in charge because they control all access.

Now consider the International Space Station. Nations around the globe participated it creating this wonder, it is truly international. But as you can imagine, the US has a great investment in the ISS. But guess what, we don’t control access to the ISS. Who does? Russia. Russia can easily decide who goes up and who comes down. If they wanted to get brutal about it they could decide who lives and who dies. We might have treaty and agreement that spells out what is supposed to happen, but just like in the Ukraine, what will really happen there is what Russia wants to happen.

In all my military years I was taught that “hope is not a strategy.” But now we seem to be left with hope as the last option for the US role in space. We hope Russia will continue to support American space launches. We hope they will allow us to return our astronauts safely. We hope they will keep the ISS an international platform vice declaring it unilaterally their territory. I hope I don’t sound too flippant here, but seems like they could send a few more Russians up and then take a vote of all onboard and declare the ISS is now a Russian territory.

Why am I hitting on this topic now?

The website SpaceRef.com just published a NASA memo spelling out a big downturn in relations with the Russians. It is quoted below:

From: O’Brien, Michael F (HQ-TA000)
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 9:33 AM
To: [Deleted]
Cc: [Deleted]
Subject: Suspension of NASA contact with Russian entities
Dear Colleagues,
Given Russia’s ongoing violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, until further notice, the U.S. Government has determined that all NASA contacts with Russian Government representatives are suspended, unless the activity has been specifically excepted. This suspension includes NASA travel to Russia and visits by Russian Government representatives to NASA facilities, bilateral meetings, email, and teleconferences or videoconferences. At the present time, only operational International Space Station activities have been excepted. In addition, multilateral meetings held outside of Russia that may include Russian participation are not precluded under the present guidance. If desired, our office will assist in communication with Russian entities regarding this suspension of activities. Specific questions regarding the implementation of this guidance can be directed to Ms. Meredith McKay, 202.358.1240 or meredith.mckay@nasa.gov, in our office.
We remain in close contact with the Department of State and other U.S. Government departments and agencies. If the situation changes, further guidance will be disseminated.
Obie
Michael F. O’Brien
Associate Administrator for International and Interagency Relations
National Aeronautics and Space Administration

When pushed for clarification, NASA posted a short, pissy little note that drones on about how it is not their fault that we can’t launch people into space. That doesn’t give me a sense of confidence at all.

I do have a thought that does give some cause for optimism. Design spaces for the SpaceX “Dragon” indicate that it was designed for more than just cargo. It has a pressurized section that can be used for humans. Thank you Elon Musk for the foresight. With NASA seemingly abdicating all leadership in this area, we may need to turn to SpaceX to get Americans to the ISS (or perhaps to rescue them in a strategic retreat if the Russians decide to kick us off).

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Strategic Big Brain Science: NIH celebrates grand opening of John Edward Porter Neuroscience Research Center

Bob Gourley March 31, 2014

Editor’s note: This strikes me as important news that can impact every sector of the economy and every industry, as well as the future of humanity. Yep, this can be really big. Read the release below for more, including info on how to watch the scientific symposium online. – bg.

Strategic Big Brain Science: NIH celebrates grand opening of John Edward Porter Neuroscience Research Center

State of the art research facility on NIH campus will foster new collaborations among scientists studying the brain

The National Institutes of Health will host a scientific symposium and a dedication ceremony March 31- April 1, 2014, to celebrate the completion of the John Edward Porter Neuroscience Research Center. This state of the art facility brings together neuroscientists from 10 institutes and centers across the NIH in an effort to spur new advances in our understanding of the nervous system in health and disease.

The dedication will feature remarks by the honoree, former congressman John Edward Porter, for whom the center is named. Porter was a member of the House Appropriations Committee, chair of the subcommittee that funded NIH, and a staunch supporter of biomedical research and the NIH mission. He served in the House for more than 20 years, representing a district in Illinois.

Other speakers include NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill)., and Story C. Landis, Ph.D., director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. More than 800 people are expected to attend the dedication and symposium.

The inaugural event for the building is a two-day symposium featuring five scientific sessions with presentations by leading neuroscientists from across the United States and within the NIH. Topics will include presentation on some of the hottest topics in the field today: neuronal circuits, cell biology and the genetics of brain disease.

“The symposium will highlight cutting-edge neuroscience research that is conducted here at NIH and around the country. This is a wonderful opportunity to bring together an esteemed group of scientists and hear about the latest findings in neuroscience,” said Dr. James Battey, director of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD).

As one of the largest neuroscience research centers in the world, the Porter Neuroscience Research Center has 500,000 square feet of open laboratory space and offices, shared resources and facilities, and other design elements meant to foster collaborations among scientists.

“The concept for this building first arose when we saw a need for a place that could bring together scientists studying all aspects of the brain. We are delighted that the Porter Neuroscience Research Center is officially open and look forward to the many innovative discoveries that are bound to come from the programs in that building,” said Dr. Landis.

“Serendipity plays an important role in science. Many great ideas for experiments result from casual conversations between researchers. The open design of the Porter Research Center will certainly encourage those types of interactions,” said Dr. Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health.

The Porter Neuroscience Research Center is made up of two buildings connected by a glass atrium. Construction on the first building began in 2001 and was completed in 2004. The second phase of the center, designed by Perkins+Will, was built with a number of environmentally friendly design features such as solar cells, geothermal energy system, and energy efficient lighting, which make the facility 25 percent more energy-efficient than a conventional laboratory building.

“Phase two of the project faced several unavoidable stops and starts but appears to be have been well worth the wait,” said Gerald Fischbach, M.D., who was one of those who conceptualized the idea more than 10 years ago while serving as the NINDS director.

“We hope people will come from every corner of the earth to see and work in the John Edward Porter Neuroscience Research Center, a magnificent tribute to the most important and challenging scientific endeavor we face – understanding the human brain,” said Dr. Collins.

About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation’s medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov.

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Intel CEO Brian Krzanich and Cloudera CSO Mike Olson on Intel and Cloudera’s Technology Collaboration

Bob Gourley March 27, 2014

Two of my favorite technology companies, the great American firms Intel Corporation and Cloudera, are now working very strategically together in a way that will have a positive impact on the future of enterprise IT.

For context, see the video at this link and embedded below:

In the video, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich talks about the equity investment and importance of the technology collaboration between Intel and Cloudera. The bottom line here: The leader in data center hardware and high performance computing (Intel) is now strategically teamed with the leader in the big data software platform (Cloudera) to produce a great innovation for developers, users and solution providers across every realm. This is bringing solutions to the mainstream in a way that leverages a standard platform.

What do I look for next? As a CTO I would like to see new documentation, including use cases, reference architectures and repeatable guidance that enterprises and developers can use for this new platform. Both Cloudera and Intel have many reference architectures and use cases available now, but new ones that combine the power of both these firms will be an awesome read. I really can’t wait.

Mike Olson of Cloudera provided some context on what this means strategically in a blog post at Cloudera. He summarized the essence of the news as:

Intel will replace its own Apache Hadoop-based software distribution with CDH. We’ll transition current customers and partners over a reasonable time period.
Intel and Cloudera will cooperate to enhance the open source projects that make up CDH so that they take advantage of the power and features of Intel’s chipset. Intel silicon powers 94% of the world’s servers today, so we expect to make life better for an enormous number of users.
We’ll work together to promote and distribute the software worldwide, directly and through the channels and partnerships we each bring to the relationship.
Intel Capital has acquired a stake in Cloudera, adding to the funds we announced last week. It’s the largest data center investment in Intel Capital’s history, and the investment makes Intel our largest strategic shareholder.

Mike concludes his post with some important relevance on this news, saying:

Our collaboration means that customers will be able to rationalize their IT spending. They’ll be able to do existing work better, faster and cheaper. More importantly, they’ll be able to attack new workloads, analyzing more data than ever before in ways previously impossible. They’ll get value from data they couldn’t capture before.

Mike’s full blog is here: The Next Ten Years

Also see more from the Intel press release below:

Cloudera, Intel Commit to Accelerate and Transform How Enterprises Use Big Data; Intel Makes Significant Equity Investment in Cloudera

PALO ALTO, Calif., and SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 27, 2014 – Intel Corporation and Cloudera today announced a broad strategic technology and business collaboration, as well as a significant equity investment from Intel making it Cloudera’s largest strategic shareholder and a member of its board of directors. This is Intel’s single largest data center technology investment in its history. The deal will join Cloudera’s leading enterprise analytic data management software powered byApache Hadoop™ with the leading data center architecture based on Intel® Xeon® technology. The goal is acceleration of customer adoption of big data solutions, making it easier for companies of all sizes to obtain increased business value from data by deploying open source Apache Hadoop solutions. Both the strategic collaboration and the equity investment are subject to standard closing conditions, including customary regulatory approvals.

Cloudera will develop and optimize Cloudera’s Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH) for Intel architecture as its preferred platform and support a range of next-generation technologies including Intel fabrics, flash memory and security. In turn, Intel will market and promote CDH and Cloudera Enterprise to its customers as its preferred Hadoop platform. Intel will focus its engineering and marketing resources on the joint roadmap. The optimizations from Intel’s Distribution for Apache Hadoop/Intel Data Platform (IDH/IDP) will be integrated into CDH and IDH/IDP and will be transitioned after v3.1 release at the end of March. To ensure a seamless customer transition to CDH, Intel and Cloudera will work together on a migration path from IDH/IDP. Cloudera will also ensure that all enhancements will be contributed to their respective open source projects and CDH.

The collaboration with Cloudera promises to enhance both Intel data center and Internet of Things (IoT) technology initiatives by enabling customers to manage and analyze machine-generated data from a variety of sources, spanning sensors to gateways and a range of devices.

“By aligning the Cloudera and Intel roadmaps, we are creating the platform of choice for big data analytics,” said Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Data Center Group. “We expect to accelerate industry adoption of the Hadoop data platform and enable companies to mine their data for insights that inform the business. This collaboration spans our data center technology from compute to network, security and storage, and extends to our initiatives for the Internet of Things.”

Both companies remain committed to the open source community that has been the driving force behind Hadoop. The companies will also execute joint go-to-market strategies that include coordinated product, channel and sales programs.

“Hadoop has changed the entire conversation around data,” said Tom Reilly, chief executive officer, Cloudera. “Based on our ability to store, process and analyze all kinds of data, increasingly in new ways, the potential for advances in business, social and economic environments are vast. Teaming with Intel, the industry leader in data center technology innovation, presents an opportunity for us to layer Hadoop into a platform’s core framework. The result is rapid performance improvements on workloads such as those extracting intelligent insight. Intel’s vision for delivering open, performance optimized solutions for big data is synergistic to our vision to help companies accelerate time to achieving success.”

About Intel
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Intel is a trademark of Intel Corporation in the United States and other countries.

Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

About Cloudera
Cloudera is revolutionizing enterprise data management by offering the first unified Platform for Big Data: The Enterprise Data Hub. Cloudera offers enterprises one place to store, process and analyze all their data, empowering them to extend the value of existing investments while enabling fundamental new ways to derive value from their data. Founded in 2008, Cloudera was the first and is still today the leading provider and supporter of Hadoop for the enterprise. Cloudera also offers software for business critical data challenges including storage, access, management, analysis, security and search. With over 20,000 individuals trained, Cloudera is a leading educator of data professionals, offering the industry’s broadest array of Hadoop training and certification programs. Cloudera works with over 900 hardware, software and services partners to meet customers’ big data goals. Leading organizations in every industry run Cloudera in production, including finance, telecommunications, retail, internet, utilities, oil and gas, healthcare, biopharmaceuticals, networking and media, plus top public sector organizations globally.http://www.cloudera.com/ www.cloudera.com

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Cloudera, Cloudera’s Platform for Big Data, CLoudera Enterprise Basic Edition, Cloudera Enterprise Flex Edition, Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub Edition and CDH are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cloudera Inc. in the United States, and in jurisdictions throughout the world. All other company and product names may be trade names or trademarks of their respective owners.

Enterprise Technologists From Every Sector: Get The Real Truth About NSA From A Trusted Insider

Bob Gourley March 22, 2014

If you are an enterprise technologist from any sector I implore you, please learn from trusted sources what the situation at NSA is. It is especially important that technologists understand the facts since we are the ones who can help people understand the technologies involved.

I have seen and heard first-hand how people can jump to the wrong conclusion because they were mis-informed or because they believed something from a headline or article designed to intentionally mis-lead. You can find headlines that read “How the NSA betrayed the world’s trust” or “Surveillance is setting fire to the Internet.” All of us have seen 100’s of headlines designed to inflame and many are just flat out lies.

I have seen first-hand what the truth can do. From my experience, when people get the facts they come to the conclusion that NSA is an organization with appropriate oversight doing hard things for the right reason. You might have disagreements over some of what is done. That is just the nature of a democracy. But when you have the facts you are able to disagree and dialog intelligently.

One of the greatest sources of facts over the last year has been Rick Ledgett. He is now the deputy director of NSA. I trust him and when he provides facts you can bet they are well-founded. When he speaks we should listen.

With that as an intro, his latest articulation of NSA roles, missions and capabilities is at this link and embedded below:

AFFIRM Panel: Kirit Amin’s Concepts Continue To Have Positive Influence In Government Business Models

Bob Gourley March 18, 2014

I just read a review of a a 13 March session of the Association for Federal Information Resources Management (see AFFIRM). AFFIRM is a non-profit collective seeking to improve the management of information and related systems in the federal government. Lord knows we need AFFIRM now!

The panel of 13 March was part of their monthly speaker series and included

Kirit Amin, Deputy CIO and Chief Technology Officer, US Department of Commerce
Sonny Hashmi, Acting Chief Information Officer, General Services Administration
Lorraine Landfried, Deputy CIO for Product Development, Department of Veterans Affairs
Param Soni, Chief Architect, Environmental Protection Agency
Pete Tseronis, Chief Technology Officer, Department of Energy

My source on this panel is a Mark Rockwell article in Federal Computer Week (FCW) titled “Project Management, Jedi Style“. Mark captures many great ideas from the panel and is great about crediting the many powerful thinkers in that group. But the entire discussion especially made me think of Kirit Amin. Followers of federal thinkers have long watched as Kirit has helped us all understand the importance of staying connected with the business end of agencies, and he has long caused us to think by invoking metaphors of Yoda and the Jedi. I think of Kirit whenever I hear this construct. It really is all about the mission, and his articulation of the “GEAR Approach” for Goal, Engage, Accountability, Results is a great way to track how IT is serving business missions.

I also love the professionalism of these other great IT thought leaders. Sonny Hashimi, Lorraine Landfried, Param Soni and Pete Tseronis are champions with great reputations and I can tell from this Mark Rockwell article each are having tremendous impact on the mission end of their agencies.

Regarding AFFIRM, one of the fantastic things they have been doing is recording their sessions and posting them online so you don’t have to have them filtered by the press (or me) to capture the content yourself. This particular session is not online yet, but as soon as it is I’ll point you to the video, I think it will be a great one.

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