CrudVision – Lisa Seelye

April 13, 2010

From OMG BUSY to OMG BUSY!

Filed under: work — Lisa Seelye @ 21:26

At the end of March my employer moved its headquarters one building over, and four floors up.

My boss and I were the sole planners in the IT-related move and we had a big hand in the move at large, too.

We’d been in the thick of it since around November or December 2009; we looked at the office space with our CEO.

The move was very exciting because for the first four months of 2010 my life was extremely busy. When it came down to it we have a completely new ISP that laid fiber to the new LAN room (we have space to maneuver around the four cabinets! *gasp* What a luxury! Shame three of the four cabinets are round threaded…doh).

Paul, my boss, and myself planned for a few hours downtime on move day. We had help from a couple colleagues to physically move our gear over and to patch everything up. Downtime was a few hours. We do, however, need to repatch everything since we forgot cable management. ha ha, oops. We’ll do that this weekend.

Concurrent to the move we were opening a brand new office in Atlanta, Georgia – in fact they are still sharing a DSL line between 12-15 people (Fiber coming soon).

Then there’s the brand new Cisco phone system we deployed on move day too. Oh and the security system.

When the dust settled we successfully moved with minimal downtime and no major issues. In fact Paul and I both were praised by our coworkers and CEO in particular (who, I think, is still waiting for everything to fall apart! :D ).

I’m pleased that the move went well! The new space is much more open and not having to contort myself to weird positions to work in our server room. It’ll be nice to have cable management.

But the move is over…and we’re still very busy…! It’s strange how that happens.

January 12, 2010

And more on climbing…

Filed under: rock climbing — Tags: — Lisa Seelye @ 14:09

I suppose if I can’t write about tech I can write about climbing. Yesterday my partner was sick so she wasn’t up for climbing. I, however, was. So I went to the gym and spent quite some time traversing: 45 minutes then a 10 minute rest, then 30 minutes and a 10-15 minute rest, then a little more traversing then I went home.

I have to say that I really like traversing. It’s completely different than leading or top-roping or even bouldering (all of which seem to get all the glory). Yesterday was my first extended traversing session and I learned a lot: how to lean, how to place hands, how to place feet, creative solutions for hard transitions.

Route setters at my climbing gym take care to provide a path around the bottom 10 feet of the climbing walls for traversing but their primary focus seems to be that of the vertical routes and so the traverser can be left with a difficult move. For instance, yesterday, I had a tricky move just before a corner that I just couldn’t figure out so I tried to heel hook a massive hold so I could match there with my right hand and then make progress. This type of move rarely comes up in the vertical climbing. Sure, heel hooks and matching hands-to-feet isn’t rare but moving horizontally (at my gym, anyways) 40+ feet up is just simply not common. I found the move enjoyable: making the hook worked for me – it probably did NOT look graceful but at this point I don’t really care because my goal was to get past that spot on the wall and into the corner. I’ll worry about cleaning up technique during the next session. My primary goals still are to keep heart rate up and improve endurance.

In any event today I am sore today in new and interesting places. Top-roping and lead climbing just don’t focus on these groups. I look forward to my next session!

January 8, 2010

After a Hiatus…

Filed under: C,STOMP,arduino,rock climbing,work — Lisa Seelye @ 01:28

So it’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything so I thought I’d give an update so that there is something here.

I love my job to death! I work with awesome people and have a lot of cool stuff to do. I’m also climbing three times a week, which doesn’t leave me with a lot of time to code or be at home. When I am home I’m working on a STOMP library for the Arduino Ethernet Shield.

The STOMP library is going to be used in part of a home automation system my partner and I are working on. I say “working on” because she’s just as busy as I am and doesn’t have much time to work on all of the projects she’s got on the go.

So I’m still around and just really busy!

July 8, 2009

Way too busy

Filed under: life,reve,rock climbing,ruby,work — Lisa Seelye @ 21:27

So I’ve been very lax in posting. I’m very busy lately with rock climbing and work and other social things.

I have so many things to talk about like the awesomeness of OS X Server, MCX, LDAP and other nifty things. I haven’t been doing much Ruby development lately since I have other priorities. Reve is moved over to github.

April 26, 2009

Moving away from SVN

Filed under: blog,documentation,dreamhost,eve online,github,life,rails,reve,rock climbing,ruby,work — Lisa Seelye @ 03:20

I will no longer be updating svn here at crudvision.com. I want to move Reve to git (at github). I won’t do it if I can fall back to svn, so I’m jumping ship.

Moving to github will also mean I can dump dreamhost as a host and move crudvision.com to my colocated machine to save money each month.

I’m sorry for the complete void in posting. I’ve been very busy with life, work and rock climbing. Yes, that’s right, rock climbing.

In early March I started a new job in Toronto for a gaming company (I’m not really allowed to talk about it much, unfortunately). I’m a sysadmin there and I love it. It’s much better than developing the same web applications over and over. I’m almost ready to resume programming for a hobby now that I don’t do it all day every day for pay.

And the rock climbing. My partner and I started climbing recently. We’ve noticed an unusual number of IT professionals that climb! It’s cool and odd at the same time.

I hope to post more, but the real goal of the post is to say that I’m ditching subversion, trac and intend to use github as the only source of documentation for Reve. (I just hope I can get traffic from github to this blog to pad my ego.)

February 17, 2009

Reve Release 115

Filed under: api,eve online,reve,ruby — Lisa Seelye @ 20:23

James Harrison brought to my attention a couple of bugs in Reve and I’ve released a new gem of Reve to resolve the issues.

The fixes are:
* Soverignty now casts constellation_sovereignty to an integer (Fixnum)
* Conquerable Stations method now reports fields correctly.
* RDOC updated for the above

December 23, 2008

Quick update!

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , — Lisa Seelye @ 23:04

I’m still around. Busy with life and work and it’s left me in not much of a mood to code. I did, however, push a new release of Reve. Check it out!

October 7, 2008

Another Amanda Post

Filed under: amanda,amazon,backup,gentoo,jungledisk,linux,open source,s3 — Lisa Seelye @ 12:09

In the past I mentioned some Pros and Cons of Jungledisk and Amanda and the one listed “con” for Amanda is that it periodically had issues with my buckets and the size of data stored therein.

It turns out that there was a bug with the Amanda S3 device: it had issues with buckets that had a lot of keys (files) in it. Due to the way Amanda works it makes one gig pieces of data on the holding disk and then the S3 device chunks them up smaller and puts them on the S3 device. When the tape/bucket was due to be resused the files in it had to be removed. Fetching the key list (file list) that could be rm’d had a buffer overflow.

I found this out with the awesome help of djmitche (and Freenode #amanda) who wrote a patch for me. I’m pretty sure the patch made its way into amanda trunk. In Gentoo the patch is in app-backup/amanda-2.6.0_p2-r1.

Since applying the patch I’ve had no problems with Amanda at all and it’s run perfectly for me.

September 2, 2008

Following up JungleDisk vs Amanda

Filed under: amanda,amazon,backup,jungledisk,linux,os x,s3 — Lisa Seelye @ 21:01

Following up to Backing up to Amazon S3 using Amanda (June 28, 2008):

I’ve been having issues with both Amanda+S3 as well as JungleDisk. I’ll outline these here.

JungleDisk Problems

  • JungleDisk sometimes destroys all of my data on S3 in the bucket JungleDisk uses and then on the next backup re-uploads all of the data! This is clearly a problem. Luckily I do not have more than a gigabyte of data thats backed up with JungleDisk. If I did this bug (or feature?) would be very expensive.
  • JungleDisk doesn’t smartly handle moves. I’d like to be able to move things around on my local filesystem and have JungleDisk notice this and move them. Moving them over WebDAV isn’t feasible.
  • JungleDisk scans individual files and doesn’t combine a whole bunch of them into one tarball. This gets very expensive! I wish they’d tar it all up first like Amanda.

Amanda+S3 Problems

  • Sometimes the Amanda S3 device module has problems talking to S3. The only fix I’ve found so far is to destroy the bucket, remove it from the tapelist, readd the bucket, reidentify the bucket to Amanda and run amflush. This is clearly not good as it’s just as bad as Jungledisk destroying everything. I haven’t figured out why this happens yet.

Both products are still good and I’ll continue to use them. I’m considering using Amanda on my laptop, however, but this could cause problems in cases where it isn’t connected to the network at backup time.

August 28, 2008

Playing with Git

Filed under: git,github,open source,reve,ruby,subversion — Lisa Seelye @ 17:05

I’ve begun playing with git over at github by importing Reve’s source.

Eventually I will do away with subversion and trac and move to github for Reve completely. Trac is not very good and often locks up.

As I’m still new with git and github I’ll have to keep contributions to a minimum since I don’t know exactly what I’m doing.

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