Currently I have a lot of fairly large and complex projects on the go. I like being busy and the projects themselves are interesting, I have been struggling to manage all the details of all the projects as I work on parts of each throughout the day.
I have tried a couple of different methods of organizing notes with varying success. The latest one seems to be working well.
I’m thrilled Blogo has been released for iOS. And I’ve gotten into the beta to try it out!
After doing some reading and talking with various people I decided to give a Ketogenic diet a try for a few weeks.
Essentially a Ketogenic diet encourages your bod to switch to a metabolic state in which the body primarily relies on fat for energy.
Paleo Leap a great resource for Paleo diet information also have a really good Guide to Ketosis
I’ve got Windows 10 installed on a couple of machines now (the ones that aren’t Apple machines obviously).
My initial impressions are good. The damn metro interface is gone, or sort of more integrated into what you expect to get when you click ‘Start’. Most of all what I’m really excited about is they’ve finally implemented virtual desktops, and they’ve done it really well.
Otherwise I’ve noticed the OS runs pretty snappy, the cortana integration is fairly smooth as well.
I’m hoping to try out the xbox one integration this week too. That looks amazing.
I’ve been working with chef and splunk a lot over the past year or so and both seem to suffer from a strange problem I haven’t been able to articulate very well, and certainly not concisely, but I’ll give it a go and see how she goes.
Chef lets you manage infrastructure via code, it’s a framework, not a solution which means you need to invest time to learn and then implement the solution that uses the framework.
Splunk is an incredibly powerful log indexer and data visualizer. Getting data into splunk is shockingly easy. Things get complicated when you get stuff in there and want to start digging around, see what you can see.
Both have excellent training and communities available which has been enormously helpful.
I’m going to post a bit about each tool as I struggle work at getting various tasks done.
Today I’m focusing on trying to get unit/integration testing working for cookbooks targeting windows.
There are a fairly unreal number of tools involved in a ‘test suite’ for chef
so i’m trying to get my head wrapped around them without getting myself twisted into knots.
First step 1 : How to generate a windows machine and converge it with a particular cookbook
Got the theme thing sorted to my satisfaction, at least for now, don’t want to get trapped in that rabbit hole for too long.
Currently topping the Grok Pile
Well actually not first things since what I’m groking first is tweaks to the wordpress themes so I can add a logged-in-users post form on the main page (for me) and learning about the css classes so i can do what i want with colors
Thus far the docs on the css classes are a bit hard to find. With some trial and error I’ve learned a few things but not as much as I’d like.
Looking for books on Safari Books to illuminate the theme testing process as iteration is currently brutally slow.