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Async sockets in Ada
Recently I've been experimenting with the concept of a high-performance (highparallelism, high concurrency, low CPU/memory footprint) TCP server in Ada. Developing ontop of Linux, you cannot help avoid theepoll(7) I/O event notificationsystem.Unlike my previous post on dynamic task creation inAda, this post won't have much in theway of sample code... read more
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Safe, Dynamic Task Creation in Ada
A few years ago,Adabecome my hobby/tinker programming language of choice, for a number ofreasons, concurrency beingone of them. In this post I'd like to walk you through an example of dynamictask creation in Ada, which uses Ada.Task_Termination handlers, a new featurein Ada 2005.(If you're familiar with Ada, you can skip... read more
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Tyler goes to Yurp
As I mentioned in my previouspost I'll be going toFOSDEM this year. Unlike last year, I will be spending alot more time in Europe this time around.I will be arriving in Frankfurt on the 29th of January and spending a few daysin Köln (Cologne). Naturally I will be in Brussels... read more
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FOSDEM: Testing and Automation Dev Room CFP
For this next year's FOSDEM, I'm organizing the "Testing and Automation"developer room. And wouldn't you know it, we've just opened up our Call forParticipation.I'm quite excited about the dev room, and look forward to reviewing andselecting the talks.Hope to see you there :) read more
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Video: Rebuilding the airplane - Continuous Deployment with Gerrit and Jenkins
I promise this is the last video I'll post for a while. This talk was given atJenkins User Conference2012in San Francisco at the end of September.This talk can be considered part of the same overarching narrative behind myIntegrating Selenium after thefact presentation. Both talks areaddressing the same continuous deployment/delivery project... read more
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Video: Red, green, reprovision. Test Driving Operations
One more presentation video from PuppetConf a coupleweeks ago.To be honest, I'm not terribly pleased with this presentation. It's the firstpresentation in a long time where I felt like I was overly-nervous to the pointwhere it was affecting my ability to present. Watching the video after the factthough, seems like... read more
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Video: We'll Do It Live - Operations Anti-Patterns
Another presentation video, this time from PuppetConfa couple weeks ago.This presentation was a lot of fun to prepare for a give, since it was nothingbut schadenfreude and beer, two of my favorite things. Most talks at PuppetConfwere 35 minutes, but because he likes me so muchMike let me run over... read more
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Video: Integrating Selenium After the Fact
A few weeks ago I had the fortune to speak at the SF SeleniumMeetup with a talk titled:"Better Late than Never: Integrating Selenium After The Fact".This talk is part of a larger Lookout narrative that I've discussedbefore around our epic journey to continuous deployment. Alongside some of theprocess changes we've... read more
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Juggling rice
For the past couple weeks I've been learning how to juggle in my spare time(and a bit at work). The act of juggling itself is surprisingly easy, so Ilearned how to juggle in about 2 hours one afternoon, since then I've beenlearning how to juggle well, which is much more... read more
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Pairing with the fourth wall
Some time ago I found myself captivated by watching another developer work. Notanybody that I work with or know in person, but the infamousNotch. Throught some twist of fate I stumbledacross a live stream of his and spent anon-trivial amount of time watching boxes and code fly by in Eclipse.Inspired,... read more
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