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Monthly Archives: February 2009

How to kill 4 chickens in 3 years

I had a great time at Ignite Portland 5 last night. There were seventeen other fantastic presenters, amazing volunteers and the always great Legion of Tech crew there to cheer us all on. Oh, and like 700 people in the crowd! Thanks to everyone who helped me out on this presentation. Especially my husband, Scott, [...]

twittering on 2009-02-19

sad i’m missing the advanced topics meeting. but need to practice! # @ramereth meeting will be at paddy’s (http://paddys.com/), back room at 6pm friday feb 27 # @ramereth formal announcement coming shortly! # sad i won’t be in town for #RCC. # @eggyknap +1 for the new clone! # #Puppet users, configuration mgmt geeks – [...]

New user group: Puppet PDX

Zombie puppet teaser… Just a quick note that I’m helping start Puppet PDX and I posted some details over here. Configuration management is awesome stuff, and if you live in the Portland area, you should come check out the new group. We’re meeting at Paddy’s, 6pm on 2/27/09.

twittering on 2009-02-18

@jkuramot you rock # chuckling inside about tour de coops solictation email i just got. still practicing presentation. # @migueldeicaza can’t take credit, but: ‘the man is going down, my friend’ via @thesethings # biking over to @gorthx’s this morning. and then, a run! # @murwiz you can always move to the west coast! # [...]

Gratitude, freedom and open source

Audrey just wrote a fantastic blog entry about Open Source Bridge, her thoughts about citizenship, and what it means to be a responsible open source citizen. Yesterday, Forbes published a piece talking about the “open source collaboration gap” and waxed poetic about why it is that corporate IT doesn’t contribute back to open source projects [...]

twittering on 2009-02-17

RT @thesethings: Fellow word-nerds. There’s a thread on Hacker News about naming your site/product/company: http://tr.im/wurdnurd # @StephStricklen would like to chat with you about Open Source Bridge and a panel/keynote. # playing scrabble # @allisonrandal yay! i remember when you were looking at that openmoko last year.. # playing to win. and i did. # [...]

Learning to think, session II

I attended a free session on “how to think” given by Hideshi Hamaguchi (his twitter feed) last Friday night. Not only did I manage to turn what was essentially a design geek user group meeting into a “date night” with my husband, but I left the meeting with the delicious feeling you get when you’ve [...]

twittering on 2009-02-16

finally done with #ip5 slides. feel drained. but need to practice. # @turoczy no one gets anything important done on time #

twittering on 2009-02-15

coraline was amazing! would like to see it again! thanks laika. # watching scooter play with his new G1. # RT @planetpostgres: Magnus Hagander: Summary: Prague PostgreSQL Developers Day http://tr.im/gcl4 # @markwkm do you have a graph of before/after performance for that? # headed out to get waffle fixins. #

twittering on 2009-02-14

@aboutus thanks so much! # @brampitoyo just signed up for the session.. scott even wanted to come! hope that’s ok… # @Crad good to know. we’re getting ext4 to fail consistently on some read-write tests :/ so we need to try an updated patch set, i think. # @Crad interesting. we’re just using fio for [...]