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Monthly Archives: November 2009

Selenium and The Dialog of Doom

Friday, November 27, 2009

This is a guest post from Douglas Squirrel, CTO at youDevise At youDevise, we’ve been suffering from what Ivan Moore calls Flickering Builds for some time now – the build fails with a false negative once, then passes the next time we run it. Our Cruise Missile monitor records these failures for us so we [...]

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Story: Problem? What problem?

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Andy has a consulting horror story … We were doing a 2 day ‘architectural overview’ for a potential client – they were suffering performance issues as their production site started scaling, and they wanted a hand investigating it. Whilst digging around, my colleague noticed that one of their ASPs didn’t compile. He suggested a potential [...]

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Drunken Build Monkeys, and Agile Systems Administration

Saturday, November 14, 2009

LRUG kindly let me do a talk on Systems Administration on Wednesday night. It had a working title of Drunken Build Monkey (my homage to Jackie Chan), but ended up with a far more serious title. John Arundel opened the event (and let me steal his MacBook for my Keynote presentation). Thanks to the DevOpsDays [...]

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Links for November 3

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

The Build Doctor is now running a new version of WordPress, Thesis and some other plugins, on a new  VPS.  I have plans to make the blog more useful now that it’s not running an ancient version of WordPress.  On the positive side of things I was very impressed that none of the vulnerabilities hit [...]

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