Author Archives: Jason
Sometimes the project finds you…(part 2)
I intended to write this just after the events took place, but never go around to it. Now that Soylent News is coming up on it’s third birthday, I finally put together a little bit of the back-history. The following can … Continue reading
Retro Data Structures
One of the more fun things I do with my spare time is to play around with old computers. Specifically, I enjoy my Atari 800. I recently started thinking about a small game to write on the machine, something with … Continue reading
Gitlab Upgrade: Postmortem
This is an article I drafted and forgot about. It dates from January 2016 This week at work we had an upgrade fiasco. If we want to lay some blame out there, I’ll take 50% for inadequate testing procedures, and … Continue reading
A Matter of Perspective
Over the last two weeks, I saw two talks. One was from RMS, yes THE Richard Stallman. The other was a panel of industry professionals on Cloud Computing, with representatives from Universities, Google, Microsoft and Amazon. I found Stallman’s talk … Continue reading
Computer Scientists — The Next Generation
I’ve just had the privilege of teaching an Intro to Computer Science class for the last two Semesters at the University where I work. The class covered basic first semester programming topics, such as functions, loops, conditionals, arrays and hash … Continue reading
Sometimes the project finds you…(part 1)
I have been, for years, an unabashed Slashdot.org fanboy. I’ve been accused of being a Slashdot apologist by friends who feel that Slashdot hasn’t been relevant for 10 years. To them, I say, its relevant to me and one of … Continue reading
Config files
I’m working on setting up a test system at work. The system is a test environment for a major upgrade of an existing Web Application used across campus. As such, we’re testing all the fiddly bits, getting it hooked up … Continue reading
Zypper dup…
Okay, I’ll get this out of the way right now. I’m a Linux Fanboy. More than that, I love the Lizard. Give me Suse or give me VMS (that’s another story though). I try to keep up to date on … Continue reading