dougireton

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by dougireton 7y ago
I think for AWS resources at least you are much better off with Terraform. Terraform supports new AWS services and features much more quickly than Ansible since many more folks are using TF to provision cloud infrastructure.
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by dougireton 8y ago
Perhaps a way forward is to talk with potential customers and find out how your software solves problems for them and allows them to focus on their core business. For example, as a consulting company, we are happy to pay for Zoom and Slack
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by dougireton 9y ago
I have four kids ages 14, 11, and twin 7-year olds. We have never watched TV, don't own any tablets, etc. We rarely watch movies (about a movie every 2 months or so), although I just took the older two to Star Wars. So basically little
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by dougireton 9y ago
When I view the link, the lowest price is $29.95/mo for internet-only 10-Mbs
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by dougireton 9y ago
I do. I'm 47 with 24 years experience in tech. I don't plan to retire anytime soon. I have kids and a mortgage too. I'm still a Sr. Engineer, not a director or Sr. Director, but I'm happy as an engineer. I've been f
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by dougireton 9y ago
Developers who insist that their favorite technology is the best vs. what's the best for the task at hand, what technology will the team as a whole be successful with. Developers who don't have empathy for less experienced team me
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by dougireton 10y ago
At our small company we have weekly engineering demos where anyone can demo something they've learned which they think would be helpful for others. Could be as small as an editor plugin, a git trick, an AWS service they've been wo
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by dougireton 10y ago
Have you looked at kops? https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/kops/ https://github.com/kubernetes/kops
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by dougireton 10y ago
I have a Tom Bihn Synapse 25 ( https://www.tombihn.com/collections/backpacks/products/synap... ). I'm very happy with it. Seems like it will last a lifetime. The pockets are well organized and usable. Cons
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by dougireton 10y ago
Have you considered https://www.consul.io/ ?
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by dougireton 10y ago
I've found http://exercism.io/ to be very good for learning a new language.
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by dougireton 11y ago
Sinatra is clean and well documented ruby code: https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra
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Chef automation: A better knife.rb template for teams(dougireton.com)
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Send data to StatsD/Grapite from inside a Chef Recipe: http://bit.ly/12nFoWu (dougireton.com)
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Lay out your .vimrc like a boss(dougireton.com)
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Learn some cool Opscode Chef Knife command-line tricks(dougireton.com)
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Opscode Chef: A sysadmin's guide to creating LWRPs (Resource/Providers)(dougireton.com)
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by dougireton 14y ago
https://github.com/dougireton/vimfiles
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by dougireton 14y ago
1. Xcode: you'll need this to compile open source software on your Mac 2. Homebrew - Awesome Mac package manager: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew 3. iTerm2 - Replacement for Mac terminal: http://www.iterm2.com/#/section/home 4. zsh - r
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by dougireton 14y ago
first impressions: 1. Very cool concept and good execution. Your site is well designed. 2. On the homepage, it says "A ditto is a virtual you.", but it's not immediately clear why I would want one. Maybe change the copy to "Create a virtual
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by dougireton 15y ago
You should also look at http://www.sublimetext.com/
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by dougireton 15y ago
Siri is pretty good, but in my opinion there are few cases where it's really that much faster than using the touch gestures. It takes a surprising long time for Siri to respond since it has to contact Apple servers for every request. For ex
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by dougireton 15y ago
Please please don't go to the Cheesecake Factory. Try someplace like Duke's on Lake Union, Lowell's in Pike Place Market, Oaxaca (very authentic Mexican in Ballard). You really should go to Three Girls in Pike Place for lunch. Also, the Pin
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by dougireton 15y ago
As someone working professionally on a large ASP.NET site and at home on a Rails (MVC pattern) site, I would strongly encourage you to use ASP.NET MVC 3. MVC has much clearer separation of concerns and is much easier to test. Also, there is
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by dougireton 16y ago
Try http://rubykoans.com/ or for Rails, try Railstutorial.org
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by dougireton 16y ago
I'd recommend Rails 3 and jQuery. http://railstutorial.org/book is an excellent resource to learn Rails 3.
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by dougireton 16y ago
GitHub is very polished and they add useful features like pull requests, issue tracking, code comparison view, etc. often. They are very well setup for "social", open source coding projects. It's easy to fork someone's repo, add a fix then
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by dougireton 16y ago
If you are interested in Rails, try this: http://guides.rails.info/ , based on Rails 3.0 which is in final beta.
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by dougireton 16y ago
If you are interested in Rails, I recommend http://guides.rails.info (Rails 3.0) or the excellent http://www.railstutorial.org/ (Rails 2.3.5)