This should, of course, be subtitled “Books Not To Read If You Are Me.” These aren’t necessarily bad books (in fact, both of them are good books) but they weren’t that useful to me or to people in exactly my situation. Take this with as much salt as you feel appropriate, depending on what you’re [...]
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Posted 15 August 2008
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I just finished reading two different books on software development and management; both are highly recommended.
First, and best is Peopleware, by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister. This is another one of those must-read books. I’ve been telling everyone that I can’t believe I’ve been allowed to have the job I have without reading it. If [...]
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Posted 11 August 2008
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I’m attempting to set up Duplicity as a backup tool, running from cron over ssh, to backup my home directory to another server.
I of course already have passwordless SSH set up to connect to that server, and use ssh-agent to store the passphrase for my SSH key, as described in another entry. However, I could [...]
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Posted 03 July 2008
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I must say, this article by Steve Yegge has done quite a bit to refine my thoughts about hiring geeks. (The beginning is a little long-winded. Push through. It’s worth it.)
On the other hand, I’ve met exactly ONE of the type he’s talking about in my career. Not sure where that leaves me as a [...]
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Posted 17 June 2008
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It generally works pretty well, but I found the following problem, and Google was no help:
Building the VMware VmPerl Scripting API.
Using compiler “/usr/bin/gcc”. Use environment variable CC to override.
Unable to compile the VMware VmPerl Scripting API.
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The VMware VmPerl Scripting API was not installed. Errors encountered during
compilation and installation of the module can be found here:
/tmp/vmware-config4
You [...]
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Posted 11 June 2008
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In much of the web, being called an Apple Fanboy simply means you’re debunking myths thrown about by Mac-haters. And the Macalope is great at that. And if that is being an Apple Fanboy, then I am guilty. There’s a lot of hate thrown around there just because Macs are “cool” and some people have [...]
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Posted 01 June 2008
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I just finished “Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software” by Michael T. Nygard, from The Pragmatic Programmers. This isn’t the book I thought it was when I bought it, but it’s still a really valuable read. “Release It!” focuses on (and most of the author’s experience seems to be) massive, web-scale e-commerce sites, generally [...]
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Posted 24 May 2008
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for afile in /home/auser/adirectory/*; do echo $afile; done
Useful for all kinds of things. And I can never remember how the syntax changes between doing a for statement in a bash script and doing it as a one-liner on the command line.
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Posted 29 April 2008
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Linux Programmer: http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/sof/598806531.html
Senior QA: http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/sof/598812878.html
Junior QA: http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/sof/598817260.html
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Posted 07 March 2008
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I’m about to place an ad on Craigslist (Dakim is hiring; I’ll post a link to the ad here when it’s up.) and every time I post an ad, I get 200 calls from obnoxious recruiters. This is an snippet of an actual conversation that actually happened:
Me: I’m sorry, Dakim has a policy of not [...]
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Posted 05 March 2008
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