Archive for March, 2009

I know it’s in there.

March 23rd, 2009

This is how I feel about a little shell script I threw together this morning:

I wrote it, I ran it, it ran without error in test mode… it ran without error in a state where it didn’t have anything to do… it ran without error in a state where it had to fix something… I […]

“Good enough, move on”

March 5th, 2009

The Slacker Manager blog covered this topic several months ago in an article about a concept they named GEMO: “Good enough, move on”:
You work at something, you begin to run out of steam or you know more needs to be done but there are other projects and things that need to be done so you […]

The nature of ‘production’

March 2nd, 2009

What does it mean for a system to be ‘in production’?
This came up for me on Friday. We have a NAS unit, a shiny new NetApp filer, which was recently purchased and set up, and although we are testing things with it, we hadn’t yet taken the final steps — it was not directly […]