As a technical director, I thought I had the power to steer the technical part of my company but that revealed to be false. My father and his friend are the main providers of the software that let us work. I found it slow, difficult to maintain and evolve and not as productive as the company needed it to be.
I took the long way round and started providing the company with better systems, removing some daily problems.
And then I finally said that: We need to remake this software: why don’t we sit and choose if to start from the most critical parts that add the most value to our business or if to start from the boundaries and make the process slower but more predictive?
And nobody sat.
Not even my father.
It’s a professional and personal failure.
But it finally lets me open to learn something new, to re-join the community I left and to be have a better private life.
Despite you pair or not, you’re agile or not, this talk will teach you be a better co-worker. It examines some of the common problems you get with you colleagues and depicts how to get out of them or to solve them. It also mentions the “pomodoro technique” :)
ps: I’m trying Parleys embedded videos for the first time. Just go the site if you don’t like it.
In the beginning I was creating virtual machines out of physical ones, overbooking their size to make guests believe they had, say, 30G, while the hard drive just had 20.
With the passing of time, these disk images were growing and growing, and performances went lower and lower.
So I’ve followed this guide, and found a problem at paragraph 8: converting an image file into a raw LVM volume does NOT work, at least with the current version of KVM available on Debian Lenny.
The solution is quite simple, even if time and disk space consuming, and it came from this post.
Just to forward the news, if you are using Asterisk and would like to have an integrated, asterisk-only-oriented distro, maybe in a virtual machine
AsteriskNOW 1.5.0 released
AsteriskNOW 1.5.0 is immediately available for download at http://www.asterisknow.org/downloads (existing users can run `yum update` to keep up with releases - in some rare cases, users may need to run `yum update glibc` first).
JRecordBind 2 is the JAXB of fixed-length files: using XML Schema to describe their structure, it’s able to both produce and consume them, letting the developer focus on the real task, that’s what to do with the data.
This is the final release, ready for production use.
I’ve asked the java.net admins to graduate the project, and I’m waiting for their reply.
The current stable version on JRecordBind (rev 58) is deprecated: the new version is on its way to stable status!
JRecordBind-2 will be based on JAXB: forget the .properties file and start describing the hierarchy of your fixed length file with XML Schema!
For what I want it to do now, it’s feature complete. It needs a refactoring, since the code is the ugliest I’ve ever written. Once done, I’ll update the documentation, announce the final release and ask java.net admins to get me out of the incubator.
