Notes on Life, ‘Puters and Hawaii

Speaking at RailsConf EU 2008 on Puppet

See you in Berlin this September.  I am speaking on using Puppet to automate whole clusters of Linux servers in a DRY fashion.  Here is the abstract:
Title:  Using Puppet to DRY up your Rails Servers
Description:
Puppet is a system administration tool written in Ruby with a DSL for describing system resources. We can directly leverage it [...]

Scala is a Ghetto

I took it on myself to try to learn Scala.  Scala is an “experiment” in programming languages and feels pretty academic in that it takes features from a dozen other languages and attempts a mash-up of OO and Functional programming.  The learning curve is fairly steep for a programming language and it totally has that [...]