PragDave

A Tale of Two ISPs

Customer service is driving us from a dinosaur of an ISP to one that "gots it."

Thanks to all my Fans

There’s a whole lot of work being done on monitoring the health and status of systems using differing patterns of background sound. Perhaps your server farm sounds like a rain forest, and a cricket chirps every time someone portscans you.

It turns out I have one of these set up for free. I run continuous builds for our books in production on my office G5, and the G5 fans are very responsive to processor load. So whenever the build system decides to rebuild a book (because an author has checked in changes), the fans kick in, and I can wander over and see what’s cooking. It’s surprisingly useful feedback.

It's Oscar Season...

…and over on his blog, Mike Clark has his candidate all ready to go. The Cruise Control Action Movie is a rollicking yarn of tests and betrayal, elation and misery. And, of course, there’s the scene with the hot lava. It’ll have you on the edge of your Herman Miller.

Or, it’ll be a good introduction to the power of automation for anyone not currently using CruiseControl.

I’ll let the Academy decide.