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”.