For an upcoming internal tech-talk that I will be giving titled “Amber: Smalltalk in your browser, or, Tyler is a hypocrite.”

Recently I’ve been experimenting with operating a live coding stream of my desktop. What this means in practice is that I focus on a single project or set of tasks for an hour or two, while streaming everything I do to my channel on justin.tv.

Earlier this week, my only grandfather died.

Since the Jenkins update center is taking a little bit longer to propogate the release of the Vagrant plugin for Jenkins, I figured I’d create a little demonstration for you.

Look! A screencast of the plugin in action!

Shortly before departing for FOSDEM, I dropped my car at the mechanic’s to fix an engine issue. Some number of weeks later, I finally was able to pick the vehicle up today, fully repaired and ready to undergo further damage at the hands of yours truly.

I was fortunate enough to give a talk in the “Configuration and Systems Management dev room” this year at FOSDEM.

As I previously mentioned, I’ve been learning Smalltalk lately, in an attempt the understand the language that inspired two of my other favorite languages: Objective-C and Ruby.

During on of the last talks of the last day of FOSDEM, some person asked in one of the tracks (paraphrased):

It’s officially been a year since the first release of Jenkins went public, and my what a year.