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I'll be speaking at PuppetConf 2012
Today the organizers of PuppetConf released an"almost complete"listof speakers and talks for this year's PuppetConf in San Francisco, guess who'son it?Through some twist of fate, both of my proposed talks were accepted. OriginallyI had submitted two sessions to improve the chances that I would be able tospeak on at least... read more
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JUC Tokyo 2012 Slides and Recap
Just over a week ago I returned from a trip to Tokyo for the Jenkins UserConference 2012 - Tokyo. I attended thesummer Developers Summit and a Jenkins hackathonwhile I was in Tokyo, but JUC 2012 was the main event.I can't say enough good things about the Japanese Jenkins community, they... read more
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Recipes from the 4th Cookathon
This past week I hosted a cookout at my place, and cooked a lot of (in myopinion) good food. Most of the recipes that I used were from one of myfavorite food blogs: Food Wishes with thealways charasmatic Chef John (aka Chef Juan).I started preparing foods... read more
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FW: FW: FW: FW: The Gays are Invading!
I received a forwarded email which was passed around members of my extendedhillbilly family.Just in case you weren't sure whether or not the US was filled withunadulterated fucking idiots, behold this political action email.All links from the email are "REDACTED" because these dicknozzles can go fuckthemselves.Dear Pro-family American,The Radical Homosexuals... read more
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Outside-in for Ops, with code!
Last week I discussed some ideas abouthow to apply someBDD concepts tooperations, primarily the "outside-in" approach.Over the course of the past couple days, I've been experimenting with someideas with my "PentaGram" project, and Ithink I've made enough progress to write a follow-up blog post.It's worth mentioning now that thecommits to... read more
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SSH as a Hidden Service with Tor
For quite some time I've been using Tor for anumber of things, but my most recent use revolves around a lesser-known featureTor provides: Hidden Services.With fewer and fewer IPv4 addresses running around, especially amongresidential consumer lines, it has become increasingly difficult to "play apart" in the internet without gnarly port... read more
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Outside-in for Operations
Update: I've posted the update to this posthere which contains some codeand more fully fleshed out ideasI have been thinking a lot about "outside-in" developement for operations as oflate, primarily focusing on how Cucumber might fit intothe equation.cucumber-puppetreached its "end-of-life" recently as the developer can no longer provide thetender love... read more
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Grok code with Puppet
As the Lookout code-base grows, both inindividual repositories but also in the sheer number of repos we maintain, I'vefound it often difficult to find what I'm looking for.Some of that difficulty is due to ActiveRecord's determination to implement theworld through meta-programming, but for everything else I'm turning toOpenGrok.OpenGrok itself is... read more
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Bullshit.
"Ruby on Rails is a full-stack web framework optimized for programmer happinessand sustainable productivity. It encourages beautiful code by favoringconvention over configuration."Almost nothing in that description describes any Rails code base I have everseen.(Taken from Ruby Gems.org) read more
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Hub board: Call for testers
I've been working on Hub board off and on forthe past couple months, and I finally think it's ready for some more broad betatesting.Hub board itself is meant to be a more visual Kan-ban style board built on topof GitHub Issues. There are three states for issues "Open / Assigned",... read more
