{"id":967,"date":"2015-03-09T10:01:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T08:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/?p=967"},"modified":"2015-03-09T10:01:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T08:01:41","slug":"white-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/archives\/967","title":{"rendered":"White paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All sorts of organisations want you to download white papers: vendors with amazing storage, virtualisation and security solutions. This would be great if these papers contained something of value, but universally they do not.\u00a0 Instead they are behind a registration-wall (or pay-wall), and identified completely by a catchy title with nothing more, and when you do get one, it contains no useful information whatsoever, having been written by marketing droids.<\/p>\n<p>If you find that you are looking at a white paper when trying to fix an implementation problem, you know that you are not going to make progress.<\/p>\n<p>Since this concept is so popular, I made one of my own.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to download the white paper: <a href=\"\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/amazing-white-paper.pdf\">Amazing White Paper<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All sorts of organisations want you to download white papers: vendors with amazing storage, virtualisation and security solutions. This would be great if these papers contained something of value, but universally they do not.\u00a0 Instead they are behind a registration-wall &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/archives\/967\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[17,190,176],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-stuff","tag-rants","tag-stuff","tag-white-paper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}