k, if you need to scan your network for a printer or an apple time machine, what you are looking for is anything the apt catalog as “mdns”

xxxx@xxxx:~$ mdns-scan
+ xxxxxx [c4:17:fe:xx:xx:xx]._workstation._tcp.local
+ 50-xx-xx-xx TimeCapsule._sleep-proxy._udp.local
+ NZ+LP45QU62ENs7oU3SC+xxxxxxxxxxxxx._acp-sync._tcp.local
+ TimeCapsule._airport._tcp.local
+ TimeCapsule._afpovertcp._tcp.local
+ TimeCapsule._smb._tcp.local
+ TimeCapsule._adisk._tcp.local
^Cowsing ... \

p.s. aka “avahi”, aka “zeroconf”

I’m applying as speaker at VelocityEU http://velocityconf.com/velocityeu2012/public/cfp/217

Cross your fingers 4 me…

They wanted a presentation video of myself, upfront… I’m not photogenic … at all

These are all the attemps:

final, proposed version

UPDATE: http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/25/3m-cloud-library-ebook-lending-service/

we just got out of beta testing… if u are in the US, enjoy!

– http://ebook.3m.com

more at: /3M/en_US/3MLibrarySystems/Home/Products/Cloud+Library/

techcrunch.com
Txtr Fights Amazon/Apple With iPhone/Android eBooks For The Rest Of Us

literally… how to waste half a day digging for help on the internet
… and solving thanks to an issue had long time ago

k, you need to have your damn windows project building via Jenkins…
…if you work on SVN things are pretty easy, since the SCM is handled via an SVN Java library: you get your Jenkins Service installed using the Java Web Start functionality provided by Jenkins, and after having your fight with Visual Studio Express 2008 (“call vcvarsall.bat x86″ & set VCTOOLS, VCTOOLSINC, WINDOWSSDKDIR) and QT, you are ready to go

now, you decide it is time to move to git + public ssh key authentication… *pray* … loudly

you need msysgit & tortoisegit, install them but don’t install msysgit on its default path… put it in c:\git or nothing will work if you have it under C:\Program Files (x86)\ … the tool doesn’t love those nice spaces in the path… you’ll waste ur time fiddling with it

secondly… ensure you have c:\git\bin in the general PATH, and not only c:\git\cmd … despite of what you’ll find on forums, to me git.exe was working, while git.cmd was not… up to you

then… you need to tell msysgit who is going to handle the private ssh key… set an environment variable as GIT_SSH with “tortoiseplink.exe”, ensure you have the bin folder of the TortoiseGit project in your PATH

then you need to tell the system which ssh key to use… and here starts the pain… since git.exe and tortoiseplink.exe gets shipped with no debug logging, or barely NOTHING…

I suggest you have a dedicated user to the Jenkins’ activities… named “jenkins” for example. Try to checkout the project via the UI integrated in Explorer by TortoiseGIT, just to be sure the keys are ok, and the git server is reachable. Taken that out of the equation… open up a cmd console and do the same commands by hand… git clone git://whatever … git pull… git status … all ok? I doubt…

At this stage, you realise that you have no way to specify the ssh key, the only way is to install “pageant” from the Putty project… u add the key to it, as ur beloved ssh-agent, and you think you are done… WRONG!
Jenkins won’t be able to use it… you think that forcing the service to run with “jenkins” credentials would solve… WRONG! it won’t see or have the scope to see the “pageant”, so you are back to ground zero…

…than I got the flash! Years ago I got nuts with Putty, cause it had somehow cached some options, like an ssh key, as default settings… At this stage I fired up Putty (I had to download it, only some components are coming down with TortoiseGit) and select the Default Profile, LOAD it… go to the ssh settings, select the key you’ve previously use (and converted with putty keygen) to be used with TortoiseGit, and SAVE

Stop “pageant” and try by command line all the git you did before… works? good… now try the same from Jenkins…. TADA!!!!!! Well done…

da leggere sino in fondo…

http://corrierecomunicazioni.it/news/86194/lavoro_fuggetta_dellict_non_si_pu_fare_a_meno

Start from a specific situation: you are on a tight schedule, with pressure from management to approve or prove an issue on the software release being tested, and the counterpart R&D team blames you that the metrics are wrong. Actually, you check the application and they are right… looking into the source code u see the bug, u fix it, and within hours u are back on the main business, finalizing the testing activity. Now, what would have happened with a proprietary testing tool? You couldn’t have checked the code. You would have had to argue with the ur R&D team about the existence of the issue, and with the vendor on the other side. Project would have been delayed or QA totally skipped, with all the risk it takes having a potentially broken release in production. Is it worth the money of the proprietary tool? I preferred to convince my management to spend in R&D resources in my team, and get a solution we could trust. It has proven to be a good choice

Tags: Load testing, capacity planning, opensource, freesoftware, software libero, testing, QA, quality assurance

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my presentation for tonight…

18:30 Greeting and Intro
18:35 “DevOps: Design to Implementation in Big Enterprise” by Oliver Hookins from Nokia
19:30 Pause
19:40 “Building the Berlin Web Company community with the help of the Velocity Europe” by Schlomo Schapiro from ImmobilienScout24
20:25 Pause
20:30 “Building trust within the organization, first steps towards DevOps” by Guido Serra from `txtr
21:30 End

https://www.xing.com/events/berlin-devops-11q4-2-meetup-832934

k, initially at on Google+ :: Stevey’s Google Platforms Rant
it has been removed while I was reading it
…so, here is a copy /files/rant.txt

src: on TheRegister :: Fretting Googler retracts anti-Google+ rant

SAY CHEESE!!!! (last Tuesday, on the way to Bergamo on the highway… direction Milan)