| I started looking over http://it.usaspending.gov after a rather inane Slashdot post (what other kind is there) It appears to use quite a number of Open Source libraries, the Slashdot post was almost entirely about the Javascript in the system (Autosuggest, Ajax Tooltip, Ajax Codekit), missing entirely the CSS directory which clearly links to /modules/cck/, /modules/aggregator/, /modules/tagadelic/, /modules/node/ These are all Drupal directories! Go Drupal, your running a government site! Although honestly I’m sure there are more than one government site being run by Drupal |
July 12th, 2009
it.usaspending.gov
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June 24th, 2009
Tinnac!
| Ok, the old post history doesn’t make much sense with the new move back to Wordpress, so I’ll summarize. Tinnac (This is not Nagios and Cacti) is a personal project I started to take care of issues I have with the usability of Nagios, and Cacti, integrating them together into a more unified system monitor/management platform. Note: The Google Code page is severely out of date. Well it turned into a full rewrite, starting in C++, supporting NRPE, and has since evolved a bit to a Java application with a federation of nodes, each a roughly standalone node but loosely coupled to eachother (think, a non-reliant cluster), each node handles itself, and there is one (or several if you choose) node that handles the overall babysitting and alerting. Configs are stored locally in JavaDB and synced with the babysitter node and a Mysql (or whatever DB you want to use, its JDBC man) Database for longterm statistical gathering and to update their own configs from a global setting. Nodes check-in with the parent based on a schedule, if they fail to checkin on that schedule the parent fires an alert, or if the data in the checkin is out of scope, the parent fires an alert. Nodes can be Parents or specific groups of Nodes or classes of Alerts, Multi-Parent setups can be configured to babysit eachother easily. I’ll be publishing a bit more on it as it comes together, the overall design and a fairly decent amount of the underlying code is done. Oh, and I’m using my buddy Bret’s Java server Niche for parts of the frontend, with a webservice and additional PHP frontend to interface with nodes over XML-RPC in the works. |
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June 24th, 2009
Oracle/Sun
| So Oracle is buying Sun Microsystems… And I couldn’t give a shit. |
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June 24th, 2009
Enviromentalism
| You know, it is possible to be green, help the planet and try not to pollute, and STILL think Al Gore is full of shit. |
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June 24th, 2009
Skulduggerous Asshat
| Never ascribe to skulduggery that which can be adequately explained by asshattery. |
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June 24th, 2009
How to write a resume, why college professors and career guidance counselors are full of shit
All through your life people have probably told you to write a one page resume right? Well they’re full of it, after my last round of resume submission I got a chance to talk to more than a few HR folks, recruiters and head hunters, and they wanted as much as possible, 4 pages was the average, 10 was the max, but they had seen much more for people with many years experience. They want a short summary of you and your personality first, then a bulleted listing of skills to scan for key words, then work experience current first with job title(s), a short summary of your job there, then a bulleted list of APPLYING SKILLS, say what skills were used on what project, or during normal routines, such as… ChickenPlucker Tech. March 1, 2001 – March 1, 2007 Lead Developer I plucked digital chickens, moving up from lineman to developer then to lead developer I supervised a staff of 30 pluckers on a plucking project. * Redesigned plucking method to be more efficient, gained a system wide productuctivity increase of 10%. * Researched and implemented new plucking gloves using tactile feedback, AJAX HUD updates and an IV coffee drip. then finally add your education and hobbies/interests Even if your fresh out of college and have little work experience, apply the same bulleted skill listing to your education instead, show what in school you applied your skills to, class projects count as much as intern and entry level work, its just not real world, and any head hunter who starts touting “there’s no real world experience on your resume” is just looking for easy sales, many HR people don’t care, as long as you show the willingness to A. learn, and B. try hard. Good luck slackers. |
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June 24th, 2009
Monster Workers Type 7: Managerius Rex
The horn dog, the lewd lascivious pervert, the sex maniac, Quagmire. *Giggity* The guy you don’t REALLY want to shake hands with because your not quite sure where its been, but you know it hasn’t been good. Often making you sick to your stomach explaining what “smegma” is, or going on about some likely non-existent tryst, the MR tends to be vile for the sake of being vile. Distracting, unwarranted, perverse thoughts are spewn at whomever is willing (or even unwilling) to listen. Legal threats are a snowball in hell as Rex likely has his lawyer on speed dial he’s been in hot water so much. So what is there to do? Earplugs and hand sanitizer. |
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June 24th, 2009
Monster Workers Type 6: The Genie of the Lamp
The Promiser, the Magician, the Trickster. The Genie is the unfulfiller of promises, always talking about how good things will be and never carrying them through. Often this Monster comes from management, but not always, it is just as likely to be one of your own. Documents unwritten, servers un-updated, bonuses ungiven, vacations unallowed, these are all the work of the Genie. What is there to do about the Genie? Well, that depends on his stature, if he is a lowly Genie simply shoving a cork up his bottle might be enough, but higher order Genies take some work, often requiring threats of vacancy of office to goad them into action, but often there is nothing to be done about the Genie, his seemingly omnipotence forces you to stay your hand and hope things work out for the best, while they often do not. |
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June 24th, 2009
So, when I look at the sun, I am actually looking back in time 8 minutes?
| Yes, and apparently, 8 minutes ago hurts like a motherfucker. |
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June 24th, 2009
Monster Workers Type 5: The Leprechaun
The bringer of a pot of gold who is as elusive as the Shadow. He appears in flights of fancy jingling his pockets of gold, taunting the Midas Gigas, but he didn’t get that Gold by giving it away, no the Leprechaun is a stingy, self centered conniver, always plotting to steal away a small child all the while offering you a new pair of shoes or a pot o’ gold if you can find it at the end of a very winding and difficult to climb rainbow. Jumping through hoops is a polite term for what the Leprechaun forces others to do in exchange for his gold, often requiring meaningless tasks be performed in multitude before he will crack his purse strings. But this project/product/market will make the Midas Gigas mounds of gold if only the developers can have X done by tomorrow. And blindly the Midas Gigas obeys. |
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