Version control and other development best practices which sysadmins should use.

For years, IT pros have heard that they must do more with less, as staffing is cut and outsourced, while demands to better serve the business and adopt new technologies continually increase. This is how it’s always been, but it doesn’t have to be how it always will be.

Let’s face it, System Administrators get no respect 364 days a year. This is the day that all fellow System Administrators across the globe, will be showered with expensive sports cars and large piles of cash in appreciation of their diligent work.

Build, deployment and infrastructure superdude Julian Simpson has a job site specifically for software build and deployment professionals. Very useful if you’re looking for a position in the industry - or if you want to advertise a vacancy.

Agile training expert Robert Dempsey examines the application of Kanban techniques to system administration work, with a devops flavour.

Many of my former Go students headed to Berkeley and Stanford, chose computer science major, and became software engineer. At the minimal, Go will calm a person down and teaches him/her to concentrate for a long period of time.

Lock-picking will teach you to be humble and not focus on what others can do better, but to take an honest inventory of your skills and your progress.