DevOps Chat + Ship Show Happy Hour
10/03/2012
For those in and around New York City, come join me for a short public talk on DevOps, followed by a drink-up!
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The Many Shades of “Fixed”
06/08/2012
One of the software shops I was working with kept using this phrase I’d never heard: “done-done.” Its most common use was in the context of whether the work for an agile iteration was completed, more… well… “done than merely “done.”1 During my day long session with Agile trainer extraordinaire Kenny Rubin, I finally got Read More
On Dropping the [Pipes]
02/03/2012
@cheeseplus1 pointed me to a post this week by the always-engaging2 Bruce Schneier covering yet-another Transportation Security Agency snafu. Schneier’s summation of the event: TSA screener finds two pipes3 in passenger’s bags. Screener determines that they’re not a threat. Screener confiscates them anyway, because of their “material and appearance.” Because they’re not actually a threat, Read More
TeamAndrew: Anything They Can’t Do?
07/27/2011
It all started a number of months ago when @dolske randomly linked to an innocuous video about fluffy unicorns. Little did I know the first time I watched it, but I’d end up spending hours upon hours listening to Pantaloons’ videos, and would eventually be led to his current collaborator, Mr. Gunnarolla, only to spend Read More
“Documentation” Review: Coders at Work
09/16/2010
A couple of months ago now1, I finished Peter Seibel’s Coders at Work. It’s a compilation of “interviews with some of the top programmers of our time,” including people like Jamie Zawinski, Brendan Eich, and Ken Thompson. It was an accomplishment for a couple reasons: I am embarrassed to admit I don’t have make as Read More
Songbird Spotted in Namoroka!
04/07/2010
Ever since Mozilla released the 1.9.1 version of its platform1, our community has been asking when to expect a version of Songbird built on the newer platform. Transitioning to a newer version of the Mozilla platform is a complicated process and a huge project in and of itself. At the time, we were working hard Read More
Fasterfox
08/07/2008
“Without admitting guilt, I promise to appear at the time and place indicated below…” A few months ago, my driving was noticed by the California Highway Patrol… in a not-so-flattering way.1 *cough*2 Anyway, a small, triple-digit fine and some clickity-clacking on the Superior Court’s website later, I was all signed up for traffic school. I Read More
2007: Already Going Gangbusters
01/04/2007
It’s not even the first week of 2007, and it’s already been a harrowing… journey: Due to The BlizzardTM, Service Pack 2, I moved my flight from Friday the 29th to New Years Eve, arriving into SFO at 8 pm PST; this would’ve been fine, except… The plane, out of LAX, was three hours delayed, Read More
Settling into their new homes…
07/17/2006
With a couple of known exceptions that I’ll work through tomorrow, all of the tinderboxen hardware has been successfully moved, migrated, and brought up in the new colo. I’ve opened the tree as of about twenty minutes ago. I fully expect to have missed some details myself on the bringup, so there may be a Read More