Friday, May 28, 2010

Mea Culpa on Alarming Development

"Programming will not grow up until our culture grows up. We can only patiently and persistently do our part to elevate the level of discourse, and share what wisdom we have gained. "
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"If you are the only one who can understand and maintain your code, then you must realize that you can never have a vacation, get a promotion, or leave the project; so, code so that anyone can understand and maintain your code so that you are not forever chained to that one piece of code in that one project."

Thursday, May 20, 2010

the cloud Cloudkick sidekick

Man does this look delicious or what?!
And it works too!

  • The circles represent your servers
  • A server's location is based on the metrics on the axes
  • More powerful servers will be larger than less powerful ones
  • Colors are the same as on the dashboard, except
  • Red pulsing circles indicate servers in a warning/critical state
  • Flashing circles indicate a server is being updated with new data
  • Click a server to show more detailed information about it
  • Rotate the view with the arrow keys, or by clicking and dragging in an empty area
  • Rotate the view with the arrow keys, or by clicking and dragging in an empty area
Now I just need to go find my Minority Report glove :D