Archive for the ‘configuration management’ Category
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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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
I've used the tag "sustainability" (on Connotea) for close on to two years to organize and track articles about ecology, esources, and other matters concerning living on the earth in the future. A few days ago, without thinking about that, the phrase "sustainable development" popped into my head during a discussion of the future of OLPC. I like my use of that phrase, ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Penguicon 2008 is almost here! Guests of Honor include Jono Bacon (Ubuntu Community Manager for Canonical), Benjamin Mako Hill (Debian/GNU, MIT Media Lab, Free Software Foundation, Ubuntu, Wikimedia), and Vernor Vinge (multiple-Hugo-winning science fiction author, computing visionary). I'll be participating, too! I'm on two panels, both on Sunday, April ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
As I mentioned last month, I took training near the end of January to be a Closing Judge for the Maryland Primary Election. This is a new position Maryland has instituted to assist the Chief Judges with shutting down the voting units at the end of an election day. ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
As a configuration manager, I have found unapproved software changes checked in by accident, by miscommunication, and in one unfortunate case, by malice. The more tightly integrated the change-tracking software was with the version control software, the easier it was to catch these errors, but in some cases the ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
Just added a little config management perspective on the OLPC New Users wiki page. I hope to cover a CM perspective on electronic voting software here tomorrow.
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Friday, March 23rd, 2007
My first job out of college was at Xerox, where I got a great foundation of training in many subjects. While I was working there, there was a big push on Document Management -- if there was going to be a "paperless office", Xerox didn't want to be left behind. ...
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Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
Associative memory plays a big role in information retrieval. What context we're in when we start trying to process new information (or search for old) can dramatically affect how it's stored or what comes up first in the search.
For instance, today we had a potluck at work. Lots of ...
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Monday, November 13th, 2006
Welcome! I'm coming up a learning curve and expect to blog as I get more of a handle on intellectual asset management (especially information and knowledge management), but also will write about configuration management (my background) and other matters in my life and the world around me.
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