Finally got my camera out while snowboarding, been slacking this year.
Another epic, epic day at Vail:
We recently took a short trip to Alamosa visiting with K8′s brother and family. Spent some good time with niece Julia, happy baby. I like this photo progression…
I believe this is the only proof of me landing a tantrum this year, and then followed by a good wreck! Thanks wifey for the fine video job.
“Toronto-based social media analytics company Sysomos scanned 1.2 billion messages that were sent in August and September 2009 to try and get some idea of the kind of conversations that are going on. They discovered that more than seven in every 10 tweets sink without any kind of reaction from the world.”
was going through some of k8′s pics from this season… this one is big!
[Wed Oct 06 16:27:53 2010] [crit] (13)Permission denied: FastCGI: can’t create server “/opt/ai/core/gui/bin/start_aigui_fastcgi.sh”: bind() failed [/etc/httpd/logs/fastcgi/d6b459611d6278dea13062a91e78bbbb]
Mental note, if you see this error in /var/log/httpd/error_log …
Know that /etc/httpd/logs is a symlink to /var/log/httpd/ and this error is either permissions problem having to do with “apache” user trying to write following this symlink, OR SELinux is getting in the way.
At least in my case I disabled SELinux and fastcgi can now start up. Stuff like this drives me nuts…
The last wakeboard ride for this season was last Sunday morning October 3rd. Ryan pulled three flawless 360′s and several tantrums. He even landed a new backside 180 (but dropped the rope). K8 continued her jumping streak with two fall-free runs. I managed to carve around and land a few 360′s without hurting myself (ribs are still hurty).
TOTAL ENGINE HOURS 2010: 111
Hell yeah, that’s more hours in one summer then we ever put on my dad’s boat growing up. Albeit we have been lucky with high water levels and an everlasting indian summer.
Yet, after a sweet sweet long season, it was time to winterize the engine.
I hope I did it right…
Developing the AI-GUI currently represents 50% of my time at work. I am the sole engineer on this project putting a front-end to our test Automation Infrastructure. The AI is a test harness that manages/deploys a pool of hardware, runs automated tests, collects and archives results.
Up until building this user interface it was entirely command line and file based. Now web based, with a MySQL database back-end for results archiving and mining.
The web app was built around the desktop feature in ExtJs, with separate applets providing functionality. It has the concept of user roles built in, and stores session data for efficiency and saving state like windows and preferences.
Testers use it to submit and run tests, developers use it to do “smoke” and “check-in” tests, managers use it to track results and get reports.
Technology: ExtJs web framework, CSS, Javascript / Apache, Perl, Catalyst, MySQL
Tools: Eclipse + Aptana, Firefox + firebug, Subversion, Bugzilla
