Is calling a rap song Cultue Shock artistic license or poor typing? I honestly can’t decide. Kind of like it as artistic license though.
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Artistic License
August 15, 2008 by competentgirlWho really does the work?
August 5, 2008 by competentgirlI don’t normally believe that your blog is a good place to talk about your boss - good or bad - but when said boss lives a self-consciously transparent life available (and viewed) world wide over the internet, I think the rules change. My collegue, Martin Mushrush, has an excellent post on his blog - an open letter to Mr. Sivers - in response to some of this public commentary from our-boss-until-yesterday, Derek Sivers. (No, we weren’t fired.) Derek is probably best known in the tech industry for his very public migration from PHP to Rails and back to PHP (7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails) and to independant musicians as for his wide variety of advice on success as an independant musician. (ie. here and here) While Martin is addressing a specific situation, some of his comments about sharing the credit are useful fodder for all of us in software industry.
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Sometimes code hurts…
July 25, 2008 by competentgirlI got my start as a sys admin at a company that was in heavy competition with Ticketmaster (as in, the Justice Department asked us for data when they were investigating the possibility of Ticketmaster being a monopoly[1].) All of my early programming and admin mentors likewise worked at companies that were competing with Ticketmaster. So, I have to say, I felt a pang when writing this code fragment yesterday:
'cleared_for_ticketmaster' => 'true'
[1] The investigation was suspended in the early stages. I suspect this was because they were also in the beginning stages of the Microsoft investigation and thought it might look like harassment if they investigated 2 companies where Paul Allen was / had been a principal.
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Mr Beaver’s Data Center Disruption Tactics
July 17, 2008 by competentgirl
2 Weeks, 3 power outages of up to 6 hours, and counting. Thanks Mr Beaver. Thanks Pacific Power for putting the power lines that feed this area along the Columbia River Slough.
Pretty much all I’ve done is help systems and processes recover from power outages. (Oh, like you have every system on power filtering UPS’s with automatic generator cutover and a lifetime supply of generator fuel even when it doesn’t make economic sense.) We’ve only lost one PC and one disk, so far. It could be worse, some of the airport landing lights are on the same circuit and have no backup power at all. The power company is now rerouting the power lines away from the beaver.
Photo Credits:
- Happy Beaver by sherseydc
- Beaver Vandalism by B, K, & G
- Krrzztt by Soon.
- Data Center Build Out by Steven Kreuzer
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I’d think it was a virus!
July 17, 2008 by competentgirlMy friend Cloe’s answer to the question “Would you buy a hidden track on an online music site?”
Musicians, listen up! With very limited exceptions, hidden tracks should only be available on physical media. The digital equivalent of hidden tracks is free tracks available for download on your website. If you do have hidden tracks, listing your track list as tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 makes it clear that you either have a hidden track (in which case it’s NOT hidden) OR you can’t count - either way you look stupid!
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Great Documentation
June 9, 2008 by competentgirlAn excerpt from the documentation written by one of my colleagues on how to set up your browser to use a locally signed certificate on our intranet site:
Those of you with browsers that don’t support it are probably using Internet Explorer, and I feel sorry for you.
Nope, not a Windows shop here.
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Programming Quip of the Week
May 23, 2008 by competentgirlOne man’s satanic rock is another man’s coding playlist. - Martin
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Code Comment of the Day
May 14, 2008 by competentgirl// It works, don’t ask me why
As a sad commentary on our code base, this was not written as a cop out by a lazy programmer.
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April 28, 2008 by competentgirlKorn meets KoRn
March 26, 2008 by competentgirlUnix and music cross overs always tickle my funny bone, probably because I’ve spent a good part of my professional career as a unix sysadmin or programmer for companies in the music and entertainment industry. Today, while looking for some info on UWin, I came across this on David Korn of Korn Shell fame’s web page - Korn meets KoRN . David, if you read this, will you please leave me your KoRn signed copy of your book?!
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