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Niel Bornstein

http://www.twitter.com/niel

Marietta, Georgia

Areas of Expertise:

  • virtualization
  • linux
  • systems management
  • consulting
  • speaking
  • writing

Biography

Niel Bornstein works for Novell, specializing in data center automation and systems management. A graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology with degrees in Applied Psychology and Management, he spent 15 years working on corporate and commercial client-server, N-tier, and web-hosted applications, in an impressively random assortment of industries, before moving on to consulting for a few years. He is an occasional conference speaker and the author of . NET and XML and Mono: A Developer's Notebook, as well as having written a number of articles for the O'Reilly Network.

Niel lives in Marietta, Georgia, with his wife, the former Dawn Kelly McLaughlin; two children, Nicholas Tae-Hyun and Olivia Hee-Eun; an array of animals, including Chester (Golden Retriever), Winston Butler (black-and-white domestic shorthair), Sesame Kung-Pao (seal point Ragdoll), and a rotating stock of small fishes; and a few glowing boxes.

Books

Mono: A Developer's Notebook Mono: A Developer's Notebook
by Edd Dumbill , Niel Bornstein
July 2004
Print: $24.95
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.NET & XML .NET & XML
by Niel Bornstein
November 2003
Print: $39.95
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Articles

Blog

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Wireless Woes

September 24 2008

Earlier this year, without any logical reason, the wireless on my wife's MacBook went flaky. We had been using it for over a year with no problems whatsoever, but after installing new recessed lighting in my kitchen, the MacBook now... read more

On the Road Again.

September 15 2008

Call me naive, but I still enjoy traveling. Maybe it's because I have not been seriously affected by delays or cancellations (pace my trips to Kelowna), but there's still little I like better than getting on a plane and going... read more

Identity in the Dynamic Data Center

June 08 2007

Most data center operators require all their servers to have static IP addresses (or they pin a dynamic address to a specific hardware address, which is essentially the same thing), and most also require them to have meaningful names. This makes a lot of sense for a number of reasons. First… read more

XTech 2007

April 27 2007

I've never been to XTech myself, although I almost delivered a tutorial at its previous incarnation, XML Europe, back in 2004 or so. But I happen to know that conference chair Edd Dumbill and his committee have put together another... read more

Data Center Automation

April 25 2007

Hello again for the first time! Until now I have concentrated my postings on XML.com, but my work has lately taken me into other realms. So let me start by introducing myself to the Sysadmin crowd. I work as a Senior Architect for Novell’s Systems and Resource Management Business Unit.… read more

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