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BOSH: What, How, When

3 days ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
I’m still very bullish on BOSH. I’ve been experimenting with it internally at work, looking to see how it could duplicate or improve upon our...

Creating a BOSH from scratch on AWS

~1 month ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
A lot of devops projects revolve around managing instances/VMs once they already exist. For example, Chef and Puppet do configuration management of instances...

Instant new Rails applications with the App Scrolls

~1 month ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
When I start a new project I want to start how I plan to finish. If I intend to write integration tests then I want to start them immediately. If I intend...

How to stop killing people with your public speeches

6 months ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Let’s do the math. If you give a speech to 200 people for 30 minutes you are consuming 100 hours of human life. Giving an hour-long talk to a thousand people...

How to stop killing people with your public speeches

6 months ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Let’s do the math. If you give a speech to 200 people for 30 minutes you are consuming 100 hours of human life. Giving an hour-long talk to a thousand...

Never fear $ in READMEs again

11 months ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Ever see example shell commands like this and wish you could paste them in? Fear no more. A pastie is at hand. Here’s how to install it: In your ...

Trialing RedCar instead of TextMate – replacing my aliases

~1 year ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
I’m interested to trial RedCar in my life, instead of TextMate. So I need RedCar to appear on my screen whenever I think “give me an editor...

Making CI easier to do than not to with Hudson CI and Vagrant

over 1 year ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
It irked me a little that I could develop on one stack (OS X, Rubinius, Sqlite3), run continuous integration (CI) on another stack (Ubuntu, Ruby 1.8.7,...

Coming to America

almost 2 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Have you ever looked at your biological watch and thought, “it looks like it’s time to change the world?” My biological time piece has...

Packaging TextMate bundles in OS X DMGs

almost 2 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Last week Engine Yard released a CLI for their Engine Yard AppCloud. Delights such as: ey deploy ey rebuild ey logs ey ssh They simultaneously released...