http://maymay.net/blog The brutally honest, non-anonymous, first person account of Meitar Moscovitz's life. Also some occasional geekspeak. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:59:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Struggling to wake up & go to work again, not cuz I'm tired, but cuz I don't want to do that work. Must intervene there or else BAD THINGS. # Best way to get the development team better testing tools: make your managers be your testers. They'll hate it, and want ... http://maymay.net/blog/2008/08/20/my-tweets-on-2008-08-20/ Today's plan of action: Wake up, go to work, wake up, do some work, wake up again, then maybe go to @WSG meetings later in the day. Maybe. # Getting more ppl on a project makes for more talking and less coding. I'm reminded yet again of why I want to ... http://maymay.net/blog/2008/08/19/my-tweets-on-2008-08-19/ Finally got the author copy of http://tinyurl.com/mywebbook this morning. I spent ten minutes flipping through it, made me late for work. # Had a tough morning, had lunch with @BloodyLaughter, then came back and initiated a much-needed red-flagging discussion with @factorypreset. # I am reminded of the time when I heard someone ... http://maymay.net/blog/2008/08/18/my-tweets-on-2008-08-18/ About to start presentation on D/s relationships, but can barely think straight thanks to last night's booze and cookies. Meep. # Oh. That didn't in very well at all. At least it's good that I am incredibly harsh on myself. Maybe it wasn't that bad.... # http://maymay.net/blog/2008/08/17/my-tweets-on-2008-08-17-2/ @stefsull I called my health insurer, during call it became clear they had 2 records of me in their DB. Can we say data integrity problems? # @ferric The thing about the git screw ups is that we lost no code, it was just not in the right place; git worked ... http://maymay.net/blog/2008/08/16/my-tweets-on-2008-08-16/ http://twiddla.com/ + Jabber voice chat = free remote conference call + interactive whiteboarding applications. Very, very cool+very free! # …still writing internal documentation so that our rapidly growing number of developers all understand our semi-atypical git workflow… # @ferric That's cuz vi users are more practical than emacs'. It's like the secular ... http://maymay.net/blog/2008/08/15/my-tweets-on-2008-08-15/ I like that I am very clearly no longer the disgruntled young boy, but rather the unafraid, vocal advocate for myself I always wanted to be. # "Things should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." -Einstein. An oldie but a goodie from XML.com on SOA http://tinyurl.com/ome7j # Trying VERY ... http://maymay.net/blog/2008/08/14/my-tweets-on-2008-08-14-2/ Fixing people's tech issues one after the other. As usual, causes are almost always between the desk and the keyboard, but I won't get mad. # Reason 73 why I <3 Trac for IT: When my boss asks me "Why hasn't X happened?" I can show the ticket he owns that ... http://maymay.net/blog/2008/08/13/my-tweets-on-2008-08-13/ Tweet poll: What is the no. 1 thing you wish someone could have told you about D/s relationships before you knew much about them yourself? # Trying to get Plone site running with buildout on Mac OS X, which is not as simple as it should be. Conclusion? Plone still has ... http://maymay.net/blog/2008/08/12/my-tweets-on-2008-08-12/ This is not the parallel universe I wanted to wake up in today. Gonna go try to find myself a universe jumping machine. ..... # Feedback from a blog reader: "Thanks for all the laughs and interesting thought provoking pieces." :D Thank you for making my day better! # Trying to get ... http://maymay.net/blog/2008/08/11/my-tweets-on-2008-08-11/ Lazy morning bondage, orgasms, and cuddling. Part of a balanced diet. The other part? Food. I should go get me some of that now. # Okay, seriously, what is the point of ordering chicken caesar salad in a restaurant if they will serve it to you in big uncut chunks? # Sydney ... http://maymay.net/blog/2008/08/10/my-tweets-on-2008-08-10/ When you're administering a web site, sometimes you need to make changes that for whatever reasons require that the web site be temporarily unavailable for normal visitors. One obvious example is database maintenance. Unless you have the resources to do full-blown load balancing across a server cluster, you probably have ... http://maymay.net/blog/2008/08/10/how-to-use-mod_rewrite-rules-to-easily-enable-web-site-maintenance-modes/ It doesn't matter how good you are or how awesome your code is. The way to solve problems is still through a logical process of elimination. # I think I'm going to get repetitive stress injury in my fingers from reloading pages in IE trying to track down an elusive bug…damn ... http://maymay.net/blog/2008/08/09/my-tweets-on-2008-08-09/ I'm having trouble deciding how much to pretty up before I leave for work today. On the one hand it's Friday, but on the other hand, Friday. # @essinem Twitter sex is just a variation on cybersex. Or as we techies would like to say, it is a subclass: TwitterSex extends ... http://maymay.net/blog/2008/08/08/my-tweets-on-2008-08-08/ Coming right on the heels of my need to set up a git repository on shared hosts, I next wanted to see if I could use HTTP authentication for such a repository. Of course, HTTP authentication is an extremely insecure protocol, but it typically is enough to dissuade the casual ... http://maymay.net/blog/2008/08/08/how-to-use-http-basic-authentication-with-git/ I read that even roaches are smarter at night than morning. Given that, how am I supposed to tweet something engaging, having just woken up? # Doesn't it piss anybody else off that they call benefits "benefits"? I mean, really, I want a job with more benefits than health insurance. # @factorypreset ... http://maymay.net/blog/2008/08/07/my-tweets-on-2008-08-07/ Woke up to more than a few morning fires via a phone call that began, "Hey…so sorry to wake you…." I'm gonna sleep so well tonight…. # @factorypreset got a copy of my book before me! Pout! Sooooo want to see my work with @sanbeiji and @lanej0 in print already! # Today's ... http://maymay.net/blog/2008/08/06/my-tweets-on-2008-08-06/ Tonight I found myself with the need to host my own git repository on one of my own servers. This time, for the first time, it was a server I don't actually have administrative access to and it was one where git wasn't pre-installed. Thankfully, with a bit of help ... http://maymay.net/blog/2008/08/06/how-to-install-git-on-a-shared-web-hosts-server/ I think today is going to be like yesterday, take 2. Not sure that's a good thing but I've not yet learned how to time travel to "tomorrow". # My motto is generally "it's better to ask forgiveness than permission" which turns me into one of those "people with initiative." Go ... http://maymay.net/blog/2008/08/05/my-tweets-on-2008-08-05/ Going through multiple Trac projects and their tickets doing spring cleaning. (Moving tickets to milestones, following up on old tickets….) # Dear Recruiters, sending me emails requesting my résumé in Word format tells me you haven't read my online résumé, which has a Word version. # Incredibly amused that Wikipedia now cites ... http://maymay.net/blog/2008/08/04/my-tweets-on-2008-08-04/