After many weeks of departing from Hayward (KHWD), flying around in circles for a bit, then landing back at Hayward, I can finally add another airport to my log book.

If you were to ask me whether I wanted to fly when I was younger, I would have said “duh”, not because flight has been a life-long goal, but rather the question struck me similar to “would you like to be a millionaire?” Of course, who wouldn’t want to fly? The two kinds of people who I knew as pilots growing up were airline transport pilots, a profession I never wanted, or insanely rich people.

Recently I’ve been experimenting with the concept of a high-performance (high parallelism, high concurrency, low CPU/memory footprint) TCP server in Ada. Developing on top of Linux, you cannot help avoid the epoll(7) I/O event notification system.

A few years ago, [Ada](https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Ada_(programming_language) became my hobby/tinker programming language of choice, for a number of reasons, concurrency being one of them. In this post I’d like to walk you through an example of dynamic task creation in Ada, which uses Ada.Task_Termination handlers, a new feature in Ada 2005.

As I mentioned in my previous post I’ll be going to FOSDEM this year. Unlike last year, I will be spending a lot more time in Europe this time around.

For this next year’s FOSDEM, I’m organizing the “Testing and Automation” developer room. And wouldn’t you know it, we’ve just opened up our Call for Participation.

I promise this is the last video I’ll post for a while. This talk was given at Jenkins User Conference 2012 in San Francisco at the end of September.

One more presentation video from PuppetConf a couple weeks ago.

Another presentation video, this time from PuppetConf a couple weeks ago.

A few weeks ago I had the fortune to speak at the SF Selenium Meetup with a talk titled: “Better Late than Never: Integrating Selenium After The Fact”.

For the past couple weeks I’ve been learning how to juggle in my spare time (and a bit at work). The act of juggling itself is surprisingly easy, so I learned how to juggle in about 2 hours one afternoon, since then I’ve been learning how to juggle well, which is much more difficult.

Some time ago I found myself captivated by watching another developer work. Not anybody that I work with or know in person, but the infamous Notch. Throught some twist of fate I stumbled across a live stream of his and spent a non-trivial amount of time watching boxes and code fly by in Eclipse.

Today the organizers of PuppetConf released an “almost complete” list of speakers and talks for this year’s PuppetConf in San Francisco, guess who’s on it?

Just over a week ago I returned from a trip to Tokyo for the Jenkins User Conference 2012 - Tokyo. I attended the summer Developers Summit and a Jenkins hackathon while I was in Tokyo, but JUC 2012 was the main event.

This past week I hosted a cookout at my place, and cooked a lot of (in my opinion) good food. Most of the recipes that I used were from one of my favorite food blogs: Food Wishes with the always charasmatic Chef John (aka Chef Juan).

I received a forwarded email which was passed around members of my extended hillbilly family.

Last week I discussed some ideas about how to apply some BDD concepts to operations, primarily the “outside-in” approach.

For quite some time I’ve been using Tor for a number of things, but my most recent use revolves around a lesser-known feature Tor provides: Hidden Services.

Update: I’ve posted the update to this post here which contains some code and more fully fleshed out ideas

As the Lookout code-base grows, both in individual repositories but also in the sheer number of repos we maintain, I’ve found it often difficult to find what I’m looking for.