As a business leader you’re faced with the unenviable task of making the everyday decisions that shape your business of tomorrow. Some are relatively straightforward and could take mere moments to evaluate, while those critical to the overall success are typically more complex and require an extensive assessment for what’s best.

Imagine it.

You arrive at the office one morning to find a glaring crater in the ground in its place. Godzilla came by and stomped on the office. The ultimate disaster. What’s your plan of action? Do you even have one?

Feburary’s lightning talks were the usual eclectic mix and we were able to record them for the first time. Thanks to Mark, Cheng and Graham for their talks. Lapel microphones are on their way for next month!

csshx is a tool that allows you to SSH into multiple hosts and send the same commands to them - think of the ‘Send UNIX’ command in Apple Remote Desktop, but one that actually works! Sometimes you won’t be able to have a configuration management tool in place, or perhaps you’ve been called in because what is there is broken and there are a few hundred...

One of our clients, Moving Brands, puts together a project every holiday season. This year’s is really cool, using WebGL to chart the MB-ers journey home.

Last week, I gave a talk on some of the things we do with Munki at pebble.it - if you came to the talk, thank you! If you weren’t able to make it you can get my slides and code from the GitHub repository.

pebble.it built Sal to report on and manage a very large number of Macs. Sal combines an intuitive user experience with powerful backend reporting and management features. We built it because we could not find anything else out there that would do what we needed. Now you can use it too.

This post was originally going to be titled “why open source”, but after I received my feedback following my talks at Penn State MacAdmins, I decided to expand it a little.

We’re as excited as anyone about Yosemite at pebble.it - I’ve been running it as my day-to day OS since Developer Preview 2. However, Apple changed the game a little bit when they announced the Public Beta Program. What was previously only available to members of the paid developer program, is now available to all. If you want to keep your users to stay on...

Pepijn Bruienne has just released his Dockerfile to set up a Docker Container for Sal, the open source version of the pebble.it Client Dashboard.