January 2010
55 posts
buying Beautiful Testing ebook for $9.99 thanks to a tip from @patrickdebois about the discount code BT999
starting to play with monitoring mysql using cucumber-nagios. First check on number of running processes pushed to GitHub
looking at the devrooms for FOSDEM: http://www.fosdem.org/2010/schedule/devrooms. Thinking NOSQL and XMPP will keep me occupied
RabbitMQ support for Cucumber-nagios →
I’ve been doing more operations related work of late and am starting to use Cucumber-nagios for various monitoring tasks. Nagios might not be the most attractive of web interfaces but it’s so…
ah ha. It doesn’t appear that the cucumber-nagios formatter supports Scenario Outlines.
mmm, looks like ruby gems isn’t working for me? http://production.cf.rubygems.org/ doesn’t appear to be up?
has a really rather nifty set of cucumber tests for RabbitMQ. Will try and get it on GitHub tomorrow or at the latest at the weekend.
using cucumber to test drive my cucumber rabbitmq features for cucumber-nagios. The sort of sentence designed to confuse just about everyone
you can write cucumber tests in Lol speak. http://bit.ly/cx9HyW Someone has too much time on their hands :)
getting my head into amqp with ruby. So far so good. Then to see how far I get with adding what I’m after to cucumber-nagios
enjoys testing code. In particular when the new code appears much faster than the old
how did I not know about the command line app tee before?
today will be spend mainly on EC2. Nice and easy to do from home as well.
is waiting for my glasses stylist appointment.
thinks @ryanghall needs some punctuation in that last tweet. Unless he’s really talking about businesses driven by small people?
starting to prepare details of exactly what I’m going to speak about at @dibiconf
just sent lots of emails
just gone from Black Flag to Nick Drake. Not as jarring as it probably should have been.
Processing large files with sed and awk →
I found myself using a couple of powerful but underused command line applications this week and felt like sharing. My problem involved a large text file with over three million lines and a script…
some great patches this morning for Django Test (http://github.com/garethr/django-test-extensions)Extensions from http://github.com/cuker
Processing large files with sed and awk →
I found myself using a couple of powerful but underused command line applications this week and felt like sharing. My problem involved a large text file with over three million lines and a script…
another successful sprint planning day I reckon. Today I impersonated a scrum master again.
in the office early tailing log files and doing releases
wow, @thinkingdigital sold out? It’s not till May. Good job. Great to see it growing from the first year onwards
Enjoying how it appears to be possible to direct @darrenf around the world using Twitter. What else should be try make him do?
today I’m using awk. This week has been all about unix
I’m putting together a new site about #devops and need your help. How would you define #devops in 140 characters or less? Thanks!
Oh, SDK for the Kindle: http://edge-online.com/news/kindle-opens-for-apps Wonder what that’s going to be like?
Reading my kindle again after a break reading paper. Still love it.
Has two posts (one a reply) that I want to make to django-dev. Will endeavour to make the time tomorrow.
this is cracking last minute football
it’s before 9:30 and I’m already using sed in anger
going to try to get to #pyssup tonight. Anyone else heading along?
django multidb success. One minor issue I have with the docs for my usecase but I’ll post something to the dev list and summit a patch later
logadm and rsync are my friends for this afternoon. It’s Log rotating time
oooh, an excuse to use the multi-db stuff and Django 1.2 alpha in anger. Make this quick job a little more interesting
a little bit more nanoc hacking and this site should be ready to go. Very impressed with the little bugger
Spent the last week organising work to use kanban for some stuff. Now the guy in front of me on the train is organising his kanban board
also needs to say “Hello” again to @darrenf after that brief pint before christmas.
oh, pubstandards this week? Excellent.
registered a domain name and configured DNS for a new project. Been meaning to do something for a while.
nanoc looks rather nice, http://nanoc.stoneship.org/, yet another static site genertor in Ruby
Speaking at DIBI →
I’ll be heading back up to Newcastle in April to give a talk at what’s shaping up to be a good looking conference to kick off the year with. DIBI is trying to please everyone, with both front…
“Ruby/Python is a Ruby extension library to embed Python interpreter in Ruby” crazy/interesting idea http://bit.ly/7amTZD
so the apple script gem is called rb-appscript. Er, it’s a gem, isn’t the rb- a bit pointless? At least it wasted me a few moments
For crying out loud. The BBC has a half hour special about the fact we live in a country that gets snow in winter. This happens every year!
now up on the speakers list for @dibiconf with @dsingleton, @emmapersky and @ppk! Should be an excellent conference up in Newcastle in April
I believe my friends in newcastle when they say they have snow. But I certainly don’t see that much in london to make for this many problems
at the moment I’m alternating between impersonating a sysadmin and pretending to be a project manager. Change from faking it as a developer
ah excellent. An amazon delivery containing 3 whole books of Greg Rucka’s excellent Queen & Country