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Feeling pretty cathartic lately. Its already February 21st and I feel like nothing has really changed this year. Apart from meeting some amazing people, nothing was really new. I had done a metric ton of traveling last year, went to Amsterdam, Bruxxels, Bruges, London, Paris, Florida, Houston, Vegas(x3), Chicago, most of which were new visits, all of which were amazing. In retrospect I probably could have done so much more traveling, hell, I could have done more while I was traveling.
What kind of features do you guys want to see in Services? DIOS? Fetcher? SimplePastie?
The past month has been pretty crazy. Roothack's API for vmware is really coming into its own as there is only about a month left in development. Im really excited about it and I absolutely cannot wait to show people what weve done for Roothack.
The agile approach is one a lot of people are becoming familiar with. For one of our larger clients, we were doing 1 week sprints, and well, Im not entirely sure how it got started, but when a story was complete, someone would ring the gong sound, when a story wasn't complete, we could get the sad trombone :(.
Anyways, I threw together this little app which when opened, allows you to shake your laptop to make the noise
You can toggle the happy or sad sound by hitting Option + Command + T.
Note: this is OS X 10.6 Only. Enjoy!
Just a heads up, Ill be taking the stage at the Moscone Center April 19-21st (I dont know which day yet). I submitted a session a couple of weeks ago, some voting took place, and I won. My session will cover mobile strategies behind Drupal, particularly dealing with the iPhone, and a new library library I wrote that communicates with Drupal. Before you say, whats so interesting about that. I did it without any XML parsing, and some of the requests take about half a second.
So I just wanted to let everyone know that pays attention to this wonderful website.
I released Survlog the other day as a public beta, and I just hope some people find it useful enough to give me some feedback so that I can make it better.
We shall see.
Over the past couple of years, Roothack.org has been using Vmware Workstation to handle its wargames. We've built up quite a few machines and its getting pretty annoying having to take snapshots for people, revert their boxes, or even install a new OS. It requires us to manually use the vmware gui(pictured below) which has been getting the job done. 