Archive for May, 2008
Saturday, May 31st, 2008
My new job hosts internal blogs (via SharePoint), so I've been blogging there some, and expect that to continue to take up some of my blogging energy (as I come up to speed on various matters). I expect my ConFigures readers will have a better time keeping track of me ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Along with a number of other One Laptop Per Child enthusiasts (software and hardware contributors, Give One Get One participants, wiki/forum answer-givers), I've been a bit dismayed by developments and revelations at OLPC. My experience as a configuration manager and occasional release manager tells me that large-scale deploys ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Mark Shuttleworth wrote a post about the latest Ubuntu LTS (long term service) release, 8.04, and associated and upcoming release management (and his hopes for coordination of release schedules with other open source efforts). His entry is interesting, and the comments are also interesting (balancing release dates v. stability, synchronicity, ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Nobody's called me yet, but I'm on standby to act as a closing judge in a special election in Maryland tonight (Maryland seems to have these from time to time, no big deal; there was one in April, this one for a vacancy on the county council, another one coming ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Almost midway through reading Charles Stross' latest, Halting State, my heart went pit-a-pat as I came across the following sequence:
If you hadn't had a devkit buffer open before the extradimensional mugging, you wouldn't even have noticed the missing twelve thousand lines of code. [...]
"Who's got access to your version control system?" you ask Venkmann.
"Huh? What's that got to do with it?"
"Plenty, I think."
Version control! In a fun near-future novel (international ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
A friend and former colleague asked if I could send her some information to help get their new junior-level hire up to speed doing configuration management. It was a good feeling to be able to respond with a decent set of starting points in just a few minutes. I ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Benjamin Mako Hill (Penguicon Guest of Honor, OLPC Common Resources developer, and of other fame) joined us, so the roundtable started with a 15-minute Q&A with him (I hope he was ok with that; the panelists (Frank Schreiber, cmdln, and I) hadn't really come up with a game plan for ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Links relevant to the post I will make shortly:
Benjamin Mako Hill
Benjamin Mako Hill's entry about Penguicon
BMH after Negroponte's remarks
OLPC changes and uncertainty
OLPC developers are not open source fundamentalists
Disruption and Hope
Back to the Roundtable:
cmdln's detailed write-up of Mako's comments at the start
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