November 2010
78 posts
heading to the Salisbury Arms for a drink at 7:30 with various other geek types. If you’re around Cambridge come join us
just deployed a Sinatra app to a Java application server, heading rapidly towards win
Anyone have any good DNS management suggestions? Looking at www.ultradns.com at the moment.
I have enough stuff for the first devopsweekly I reckon. Going to try and write it this weekend. Fingers crossed for early next week issue 1
so NX is magic. Seamless working environment setup between super fast Ubuntu desktop and OS X laptop. Best of all worlds
Cambridge geek types. 7:30 Salisbury Arms tomorrow for a swift drink. We need some hash tag for this really?
finding zsh git plugin handy, context sensitive tab completion (eg. expanding globs to only files that need adding which using git add)
I now have cucumber highlighting in #vim too - http://www.rapaul.com/2010/06/21/gherkin-highlighting-for-vim/ thanks to @Ben_Hall
ok, so jruby is really rather good isn’t it?
so DM’s no longer work in tweetie. That’s annoying
ah, thanks to @iamdanw for pointing out I just needed to restart Tweetie. Apparently an API date formatting change
So I love Italian food partly because it can live with lovely strong British cheese. Getting into New Zealand wines as they compliment both
Anyone in Cambridge interested in Ruby, the second Cambridge Ruby meeting is next Tuesday (30th). At the Flying Pig near the station from 7
updated all my apple devices last night, all appears well
downloading tracks on iPad, playing them at the same time via AirPlay to AirTunes. Shiny new iPad features are actually useful
has a shiny new computer to setup today, first desktop machine I’ve had in years
It turns out getting a rush hour train _into_ London is much nicer that the reverse
looking forward the the #ldndevops deployment discussion tonight at youDevise, big thanks to @builddoctor for helping with the venue
thanks hugely to everyone who has retweeted or passed on the devops newsletter link, far too many to name all of you unfortunately
for those that didn’t see it yesterday, I’m launching a weekly devops email newsletter. Sign up at http://devopsweekly.com #devops
I thought I might get 300 signups for http://devopsweekly by the end of the year, not in 24 hours. Yikes!
after @jordansissel posted a solr cucumber monitoring example here’s one I’ve used for rabbitmq: https://gist.github.com/708940
This competition looks interesting http://ultimatewallboard.com, lots of good ideas for information radiators /cc. @chrija @roanlavery
inspired by Ruby Weekly from @peterc, I’m launching a Devops themed weekly email newsletter: http://devopsweekly.com. Sign up now! #devops
does anyone have a tool for organising and describing a list of gists? Like a link blog maybe?
and here’s another example using cucumber to monitor mysql https://gist.github.com/708947, not used in anger yet but wrote it a while ago
nearly up to 100 subscribers for http://devopsweekly.com now, thanks everyone for liking the idea
Devops Weekly →
I’ve really been enjoying Ruby Weekly recently, it’s an email newsletter by Peter Cooper which brings the latest Ruby related news and articles to your inbox.
I have to admit to being sceptical…
Watching serenity again, so many good lines
Wonders if @RossC0 did the its thing just wind @intranation up?
Clojure steals a few things I like about python. Like docstrings and tests that can live with the code they test
shouty music to end Friday I think
ok, so Rage on the iphone is awesome
Ycombinator style programme in Cambridge now open http://springboard.com/. Hopefully interesting people come along
zsh has so many nice little features you nearly don’t notice. shell history ignores repeats when paging, and has per command history paging
Which programming language do you want to learn next? http://edd.me/proglangs (via @nefarioustim)
.@AlunR what time you going to be at pubstandards?
my java application now compiles successfully. That’s good right?
this site was obviously built for @rossbruniges http://isitburritoday.com/, I bet it as the correct answer for today as well
all the folks in town for the .net awards should come to pubstandards beforehand. Near Tottenham Court Road tube. http://pubstandards.co.uk/
Today I’m mainly writing java. It’s like I woke up in some less fun alternate reality. Hope it’s like quantum leap. Which language next?
So, I’m hopefully going to be around Soho for lunch, anyone fancy Bodeans? /cc. @RossC0 @jtopper @fatbusinessman anyone else in the area
RT @mathie: How would you go about interacting with a fairly complex SOAP service in Ruby? We’re thinking the sensible answer may well …
Sat in the airport waiting for my flight. Reading a clojure book. I blame @samaaron
mmm, now I think I need to patch wsdl2ruby…
My twitter stream appears mainly to be folks from the US and Australia at this time in the morning. And other people getting flights
Excellent. Will get back to everyone tomorrow about the #devops deployment
congrats to my old colleagues for a hard won release, first one to pubstandards on Thursday gets a pint
anyone using Amazon VPC and have tales to tell? Interested in VPN between existing physical boxes and EC2. Other suggestions welcome #aws
1 soap web service, 145 WSDL files, 580 generated ruby files and 576 pages of auto-generated Rdoc documentation. I need a drink.