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Surprise!
What is this I don'teven. (Thanks to Rod Begbie for the image) read more
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Materials for CampDevOps
Since I was terribly over-ambitious with what I wanted to cover in my sessionat CampDevOps. Oof.Anyhow, here's some of the materials:pristine Jenkins .boxJenkins with rvm .boxJenkins boxes scriptsJenkins puppet modulestupid hello-gemReferenced Michael Huetterman's Agile ALMSome of the slides referenced were from my presentation at JUCThe plugins that I used or... read more
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Find me at CampDevOps on Oct. 22 - 23
Disclaimer: I dislike "devops" as a term in general. The tools andpractices that are associated with "devops" however (puppet, chef, continuousdeployment, automation of ops, etc) I am a very big fan of.Not satisfied to speak at one bigevent this month, I will also bespeaking/hosting a workshop at CampDevOps onOctober 22nd... read more
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Keep on truckin' Sonic.net
I've mentioned in the past how absolutely in love withSonic.net I am. They're by far the best ISP I've everencountered and treat their users, especially technical ones, very well.Being a Sonic.net customer, I've always enjoyed the fact that they run a USENETserver (news.sonic.net) which I've used as my news server... read more
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Slides from the Jenkins User Conference 2011
Ahead of an actual blog post wrap of the event, here are the slides from my"Continuous Deployment with Gerrit and Jenkins" talk at the first everJenkins User Conference.Slides (PDF)Slides with notes (PDF)Full deck (ODP)Full deck (PPT)All materials can be considered under the CC BY3.0 license. read more
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Continuous Deployment with Gerrit and Jenkins
In less than seven days I will be standing behind a podium, giving a talk aboutGerrit andJenkinsthat is coming as a result of almost 2 years of integrating Gerrit into twoseparate companies, and almost 4 years of Jenkins. The fact that I'm speakingat the same time as Sacha Labourey (CEO... read more
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Making ri useful
Update: I found out that this post was referenced in Episode 181 of The RubyShow (around the 6 minute mark). Thanks forthe link guys! (And no, the "R." is not for "Reverend" :) )When I joined Lookout I made the transition fromlong-time Python developer, to Ruby noob. It wasn't a... read more
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Thoughts on BART and Protesting
After leaving work yesterday, I walked with the protestors who were parading upand down Market St., while I'm ideologically in line with the protestors Iwasn't really doing much other than walking, and occasionally tidying up, ascaptured by... read more
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Run Tyler, Run
This past Saturday I had the (mis-)fortune of being signed up for the 2011Cinderella Trail Run.EC (my wife) had signed up for the 10k race at the beginning of the summer togive her running a good goalpost to shoot for, and I agreed to run as well inorder to help... read more
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I may have killed a spider
Our fancy new apartment, the one with the newoven, has two full-sized bed roomsand to full size bathrooms. We have one bathroom we shower and brush our teethin, and one bathroom adjacent to the "office." The second bathroom really justallows me a place to take a leak during late-night hack... read more
