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Real talk (about Smalltalk)
Somehow I found myself reading an interesting article on Smalltalk yesterdaywhich led to a couple of comments in IRC:tyler: man, I am getting that "I should really learn smalltalk" feeling againtyler: everytime I get close I find myself downloading a squeak VM and then going "LOLWTF IS THIS SHIT"I said... read more
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And now a word about the Jenkins DNS debacle
Now that things have settled down, I'd like to address what happened during thejenkins-ci.org DNS outage I discussedhere.Long story short, some poor assumptions caused a lot of trouble while switchingregistrars away from GoDaddy.First let me explain the motivations for moving from GoDaddy: aside from theSOPA issue, I've always hated dealing... read more
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Pulling Jenkins' strings with Puppet
A couple months ago I created thispuppet-jenkins module whileexperimenting with using Puppet to script or otherwise control more and more ofmy daily sysadmin-life.After a weekend of hacking I figured I was mostly finished, that was until Puppet Labsengineer Jeff McCune picked up the module andadded a number of rspec tests,... read more
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How is Ruby built?
Note: This is a rant, I'm not actually going to explain anything of useFor a rather long time, I've used clang on my Linuxmachine as the default value of the $CC environment variable. I've simplyfound it to be a faster and more friendly compiler to work with than thedefault gcc.When... read more
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Identi.ca is dead to me
There was a time when I was a big fan and user of open source microbloggingsite Identi.ca. I regret to inform you that this time haspassed and I can no longer in good conscience support the platform.Identi.ca has always had issues, to be expected of an open source web property,there... read more
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I will be speaking at FOSDEM
This upcoming February I will be making the trip to the bitterly coldcobblestoned streets of Brussels, Belgium for FOSDEM2012, one of the most fantastic open sourceconferences of the entire year.I've been to FOSDEM once before, but as a timid young lad who barely spoke toanybody. I distinctly recall walking down... read more
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How Marvelous!
Every now and again I'm taken aback by technology, I become overwhelmed by myown sense of awe with things we can so often take for granted.I've written before how incredibly useful I find my tablet, a nice ASUSTransformer tablet running Android, not a terribly flashy device but still amarvel in... read more
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Why not use sandpaper?
My wife occasionally gets annoyed with my constant analysis and experimentationwith just about everything. I have this incessant need to find the try to findimprovements in everything that I do. For example, when boarding my train tohead home in the evening, I board at just the right place such that... read more
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Time is hard
One of the developers that I follow on Twitter, PabloVillalba (@micho), posted this updatetoday:"And then there's that spec which fails only at the end of the month.. cause it asks the date picker to select the date '5 days from now' :)"Which reminded me of abug thatwe caught in ourJenkins... read more
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Keeping ri useful, still
A couple months ago I posted some tips onmaking the ri a bit moreuseful.In the post I mention how installations of anything lower than Ruby 1.9.2 needspecial treatment in order to make ri usable on a day-to-day basis.For my side-projects, I've been using Ruby 1.9.2, so imagine my surprise when... read more
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