Mario Talavera Writes

Quick note – Snow Leopard hosed my svn.conf file on upgrade; it may do it to you  Figured this may save someone a minute or headache…

Quick note – Snow Leopard hosed my svn.conf file on upgrade; it may do it to you  Figured this may save someone a minute or headache…

I had my Subversion configuration details in its own file residing in ‘/etc/apache2/other/svn.conf’ where I declared my password file, etc.  Upgrading to Snow Leopard ‘erased’ this file, among other other conf files, and suddenly my repo went puff.  Re-creating this file and restarting Apache fixed this.

I just discovered Warehouse 13 on Hulu and really like it.  Warehouse 13 is a science fiction show reminiscent of old sci-fi shows. There is no gore, gratuitous sex or cheap shots for laughs so common nowadays; just entertaining sci-fi plots.  British science fiction shows still do this.

Whenever an american show does this however, it risks getting canceled before first season wraps up.  Ever heard of Masters of Science Fiction?  Either that or their script writes change from science fiction fans to infomercial producers (too many to list).

Warehouse 13 is up to episode 4.  So far, it has many features worthy of fandom: good plots but not too serious, classy cheesy sci fi elements of yore and even a cylon guest appearance.

Perhaps this is news to me and not most of you? I’m trilled either way with the show and think its a nice break from science fiction ‘me too’ shows most networks put out… I hope Hulu distribution helps shows like Warehouse 13 find a fan-base and stay true to their original premise.

You may be aggressively contacted by ‘Three Star/RightFitStaffing’.  Stay away.

I was and even setup an interview for Friday. (By the way I am looking for a job, hopefully full-time.)

Doing homework on leads I found this which points to this report in our own local news channel.

Update July 23.

I had both posted and made this post private because I wasn’t 100% certain. After doing some more homework, this seems to be not so uncommon nowadays.

I foung lots more information at this blog.

is dreamy! Lot’s more sparkle now

In case anyone cares and for those spiders that scour… here is the link to my previous MacBook for sale on ebay:

get brittle and break! I’ve just found out that, if you _carry_ your mac and work anywhere, camping out and in continuously, the thin cable (one with magsafe adapter) gets mighty hot while computer _shugs_ along. It gets hot to the point of getting brittle as time goes by and cracking when you wind it for storage… Priceless, er, $80 bucks at the apple store. To all my windows friends, here’s your chance to call me on the apple tax

Anyways, let your cable cool down before coiling… sounds general enough advice to give.

At Caxiam Group, we have a very dedicated team of designers, developers and even a few of those people without titles who keep everything working fluently… It’s a shame they don’t get cool titles.

Over the past month and change, I have been tasked with streamlining our development process in the hopes of improving our efficiency, not our velocity. Fortunately we seem to have an abundance of work What we may not have enough of is the time required to manage a large scale operation of sustainable growth.

One of the tools available to us that I believe will greatly benefit the team (at least the technical part of it) is the adoption of an integration server. Currently, we have the ever convoluted method of manually moving and sprinkling files, directories and configurations across a wide array of hardware to make our sites tick.

Stealing a great idea from my peers, I have proposed we employ Hudson as a continuous integration server. We already have some testing going on (way to go Joe) and Hudson will be able to nicely integrate with these test.

Today, I was given the opportunity to present a whole case/showcase of how Hudson can care for all (or most) of our toils with heavy automation. Having seen Brian’s presentation multiple times allowed me to breeze thru some of the hairiest parts of setting a continuous integration server. The only unexpected (and it was pleasant) surprise was the wealth of plugins available for Hudson.

Without any trouble, Hudson plugins provide the ability to send chat messages (thru Jabber), post integration related events to a google calendar, email team members and even integrate with any number of versioning systems. Extensive information about this is be located at Hudson’s Wiki but I think its way easier to just download and install Hudson.

I am running on top of Jetty and just exploring all the features is both fun and empowering. It will certainly free up much needed resources from Caxiam Group’s Team so that we can focus on taking on more and bigger projects in due time.

Depending on the interest of my team, I will be looking further into the more ‘unusual’ features Hudson can provide such as tracking, collecting and aggregating all kinds of metrics on the performance of our build/deploy process, etc. Time will tell…