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!
]]>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!
]]>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.
]]>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.)
]]>The fixes are:
* Soverignty now casts constellation_sovereignty to an integer (Fixnum)
* Conquerable Stations method now reports fields correctly.
* RDOC updated for the above
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.
]]>I’ve been having issues with both Amanda+S3 as well as JungleDisk. I’ll outline these here.
JungleDisk Problems
Amanda+S3 Problems
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.
]]>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.
]]>This includes a major change – Reve is now licensed under a proper license: the MIT License. The terms of the license are now distributed with the package and are.
There is also a fix for the character_id that came back from a market order request.
Why a new license now? Simply because I think it’s important to realise that it’s unlikely that anyone will use Reve to create some billion dollar enterprise that I could have got in on. Yeah, not everyone can be Delicious, Flickr or Facebook. ha ha.
So go forth, ye multitudes and fix, hax, and use. Ruby and Rails both use the MIT license so now Reve should be at home.
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