I’ve been using AppLogic for exactly one month today, and I’ve learned a whole heckuva lot about what it takes to build an infrastructure using the AppLogic grid operating system. One of the very first things I learned is that there is just a TON of documentation, but a very large portion of it is…
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The beginnings of a CLI interface to Google Spreadsheets
I’m really re-posting this from an O’Reillynet posting I made a while back in order to test out the code highlighting capabilities of my new wordpress installation. It seems that it’s not really working correctly [UPDATE: Seems to be working now :-D]. Anyway, I hate (HATE!) spreadsheets. Even the Google variant. The interfaces to these…
Holy Crap I’m Busy
I feel guilty that I’m even taking this little bit of time to post this. I’m *BUSY*. I’m simultaneously: learning how to deploy a fully-virtualized, production infrastructure on a grid using AppLogic planning and scripting the bits and pieces that need to happen to migrate an infrastructure to a grid architecture. Doing code review for…
…So little time
I’m not usually this bad about writing on my blog, but the past few weeks have been a little nuts. But it’s the ‘good’ kind of nuts. I’m working on MySQL, memcached, database replication, optimizing SQL queries (and, in one case, the database schema itself), writing Python (using ctypes, and trying to parse the C-encrusted…
I’ve Been Added
Friday was my last day working as a contractor for the GFDL. I had friends there before I ever worked there, so I’m sad to be leaving them, but I’m happy to be moving on to a really exciting opportunity. I’m now an employee of AddThis.com. I’ll be able to focus on architecture, and how…
For my next pet project…
Stand back! running install_egg_info Writing /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gdata.py-1.0.9.egg-info brj@dawg:~/working/gdata.py-1.0.9$ python Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May 2 2007, 16:27:44) [GCC 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)] on linux2 Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information. >>> import gdata >>> print ‘yay!’ yay! >>> No good can come of this! ;-P Seriously, though – I really really strongly dislike spreadsheet interfaces….
My New iPod
My wife and I don’t really celebrate Valentine’s Day. I’m not sure why. I think it started because, for the first couple of years we dated, we were a few hundred miles apart, so we couldn’t. Now it’s just tradition. Anyway, to make up for it, we go all out on our anniversaries. We had…
Sometimes it’s just about attitude
Today I spent the day completely breaking down and replacing the entire above-ground portion of my in-ground pool’s plumbing. I had some problems crop up with my multi-port valve, and I had to take a few things apart to troubleshoot and remove the pump as the source of a pressure problem (namely, there wasn’t any)….
New Job!
I started a new job about 6 weeks ago. I’m now doing infrastructure architecture at http://gfdl.noaa.gov GFDL stands for Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab. It’s a NOAA site that supports atmospheric and climatology research. So in other words, the work I do supports research into things ranging from global warming to what the atmosphere on Mars…
Vacation
I relinquished control of my house to my friend and neighbors for the coming week, and I’ll be in Martha’s Vineyard until August 27th with my wife and daughter, along with my mother- and father-in-law, sis-in-law, and her fiancee. We have lots of activities planned, including tuna fishing (if they’re running). So, if you don’t…