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Re: I Love MDN ♥️ Share your appreciation for MDN - I Love MDN ♥️ Share your appreciation for MDN

kitplummer — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 11:39:18 -0000

Never heard of this MDN thing. But cool that it gets love.

Re: Build Spring Microservices and Dockerize them for Production

kitplummer — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 12:38:54 -0000

`ADD target/*.jar app.jar` fails because docker expects the target to be a directory - copying multiple files.

Re: What I Learned from Biking to Work (and Tips for Trying it Yourself) - by Leslie

kitplummer — Tue, 22 May 2018 13:40:35 -0000

It is interesting to read your statement about the rush of ... "freedom". I wish more people were willing and able to 'test' a bike commute - to get a sense for what you describe. Most people see the inverse, that the bike is less freedom than a car. However, in reality it is the definition of "freedom" that bends...

Re: What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?

kitplummer — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 12:58:56 -0000

Perhaps the lack of 'parasite' transmission has led to other consequences...

Re: Sagan has final word on Tour of Flanders crash

kitplummer — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 16:23:20 -0000

Excuses. And don't ignore that this could've been worse and not just racers hitting the ground.

Re: Sagan has final word on Tour of Flanders crash

kitplummer — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 15:22:39 -0000

I'm a bit split on this. On one shoulder voice is saying "shizzle happens, it is racing". On another shoulder voice is saying "that's real bummer, but damn that is dumb. idiots rule.". And on another shoulder the voice is saying "why are the barriers off the cobbles? ride the effin' cobbles!".

Re: Connected for a purpose

kitplummer — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 15:42:09 -0000

Agree completely. 10 years ago I was working on a "digitial dashboard" for Ford, using QNX.

Re: Dave and Gunnar #1: Fail Faster

kitplummer — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:37:17 -0000

Good stuff. Please get Dave a good mic though. :)

Re: Just Finished...Masters of Software Engineering.

kitplummer — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:06:01 -0000

Hmmn. Hard to say. Honestly, I'd like to believe it was - but, the reality is I don't know. I think I could've gotten to where I am now without it.

Re: Ålesund.

kitplummer — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:15:24 -0000

If it weren't miserably wet and cold this could be paradise. :)

Re: Ethiopian Kids Hacked Their Donated Tablets In Just Five Months

kitplummer — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:25:58 -0000

What exactly did they hack? Nothing. They figured out what "Settings" meant and turned the camera on. Come on now. Yes, it's a great feat of intuition - but, it's not like they were writing code, or disassembling the tablets and doing anything with the parts. BTW, the picture is a OLPC - not a Moto Xoom.

Re: Eleanor is very happy for us.

kitplummer — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:07:17 -0000

Congrats Gunnar!

Re: IT as Manufacturing

kitplummer — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:56:05 -0000

I think our greatest weakness, right now, as a country is our overwhelming lack of desire to get smarter. Freedom's Forge was enabled by our ability to manufacture - that's what we were doing, and were going to learn how to do. Across the board, there was a sense that manufacturer was the ticket past the New Deal and away from the recession. So, individuals from all walks of life invested in those areas...we moved from remote populations to dense industrial hubs. The sense of national pride compounded this turn, and enabled as Arthur stated so well, the machine.

We are no where close to having those same variables today. People are lazy and the gross sense of entitlement is damning. Industry (as you've described), academia, and governments are doing anything to create the environment where education, skills, and a willingness to work can turn around our broken IT structure. If we can't honestly answer "why would the 'smart' people work in enterprise/government IT instead of assuming the risk of the startup environment" will never begin to turn the tide. University technology programs, while serving the biomedical, and other high-value industries, are so far off-target with regard to IT jobs. Not only are they missing the mark, but they are attracting the wrong kinds of students - the lazy ones. The talent pool is not only being pulled towards the commercial spaces, but they are also being distributed within the IT sector in general. IT is being split between all of the different sub-groups (database, network, development, management, security, etc.) and each sub-group is turning over so fast that the lazy get bogged down - creating even more technical debt.

It's a great post Gunnar. I sure hope we can find enough of the right-minded folks to enable it, and grow enough to execute it - and most importantly in time.

Re: Henry Rollins on Longing

kitplummer — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 01:32:40 -0000

Brutally true. That is Rollins.

Re: Hello Maestro

kitplummer — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:51:30 -0000

Thanks John. As you know, it's definitely powered by Ruote (http://ruote.rubyforge.org) and all the effort you've put into it. Stay tuned, Maestro can do some pretty cool stuff because Ruote and ruote-stomp enables it to.

Re: Sand Flea Jumping Robot

kitplummer — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:06:58 -0000

Robot parkour.

Re: Why devops is no silver bullet for developers

kitplummer — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:20:12 -0000

Great article. I like to add "governance" to the "standardization" thought. Enterprises (and devs and ops) like repeatability and traceability. I've been thinking this leads to a necessary trust - that is the enabler of improved DevOps.

Re: Using Restlet's Jetty Server with JUnit - Integration Testing the ReST Interface...

kitplummer — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:17:12 -0000

Sorry man, I have no idea. I can't even remember what project this was for. :( But, usually resources are non-compiled files so I'm guessing it would static html or data files (XML or JSON).

Re: DevOpsDays 2011 - Mountain View T-Shirt Design Contest

kitplummer — Sun, 08 May 2011 23:58:30 -0000

Come on Peeps, we know you've got better ideas than us. See! http://devopsdays.uservoice...

Re: MacBook Air Contest: Tell Us Your Best Practices for Managing Apps on a Virtualized Infrastructure - ReadWriteCloud

kitplummer — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:25:45 -0000

Sit a cloud layer on top of the virtualization, and empower the dev, qa and ops folks to work it out early in the lifecycle, so they can drink beers while the elastic infrastructure accommodates the business' operational peaks and valleys, fixing itself when it flails. ;)

Re: Installable Vagrant Boxes

kitplummer — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:11:44 -0000

I've taken a step at collecting this into a repo, for forking pleasure.

https://github.com/maestrod...

Re: Installable Vagrant Boxes

kitplummer — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:22:20 -0000

Wow, you've been busy!!! This concept is directly applicable to both the DevOps requirements (Ops helping Devs/QA help Ops) and the point you made in your conclusion. VMware has attempted this, but it requires an installation of Fusion/Workstation. Your way, just requires VirtualBox (no cost on the consumer). Nice!

Re: No QA and No Ops Needed - Yeh Right

kitplummer — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:49:18 -0000

True, and I'd agree it is more of a fiduciary reason. Indeed I should've stated that environments can be scoped. For example if Tomcat is the standard AS, then VMs with the currently accepted configuration of Tomcat should be made available (self-provisionable) to devers and testers - as a start. I should've also stated "...if your objective is continuous deployment/delivery."

I guess this hits on a key point for DevOps. In order to improve the collaboration between Dev and Ops we need to make a valid business justification - that will allow for budgeting of the resources required.

Re: Vagrant is My New Best Friend

kitplummer — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:27:08 -0000

Caveat I'm a software engineer - so i'm tilting to the Dev side. Here's what I got:

Maven/rake/bundler/gem
JBehave/Cucumber/rSpec
Hudkins/Continuum/CI Joe
Maestro3
Checkstyle/PMD/FindBugs/Cobertura/rCov/Selenium
AWS/EC2/Terremark
VMware/VirtualBox/Vagrant
Google Chrome/Firebugs/curl
Wireshark/misc. profilers
Puppet

And perhaps a bit obtuse, but still important:

OmniGraffle
GoogleDocs
IM/Twitter

Re: Vagrant is My New Best Friend

kitplummer — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:10:14 -0000

Thanks James. Yep...need that step. That could be a pretty cool plugin - if there was some way to tie it to build/test agents (or selenium-grid).