Porch - Floating

rails deployment

It has been lovely this evening.
> cap deploy (then remember the password for the shell on the remote server, and it is job done)
Back to tomb raider and my beer.

In the background cap has...

1. checked out a snapshot of the code from svn
2. sorted out file permissions
3. cleanedup but log/pid files etc. created some other required dirs (I wont go into all details)
4. touched all images, css and javascript files to prevent browser caching of old versions
5. created a new symbolic link from current to the new release
6. told phusion_passenger to restart the app

All those 6 steps in two simple words - I haven't deployed for over a month, have upgraded the rails and gems but still it works.

Pie King

They are the best. Kings of pies. Masters of the NE diet - steak bake and a yum yum.

Where's me bus?

I cant see the bus. Should have been here 10 minutes before. Oh yes I remember it is stuck in a queue of cars somewhere down the road. This was the view from the bus stop in Colinton this morning.

Fortunately the sun was shining, me book was open and the chat was good - it should have been as the queue of people was 40m down the road.

Craiglockhart Ave in the morning

I love cycling across this road. Great fumes. Great view. What you see here extends in both directions for quite some distance and is not unusual. Just a normal day in Edinburgh, a road being used as a car park. Notice the large BMW in the middle parked diagonally right across the 'do not block' junction area - who cares, obviously not the tin box driver.

Agile Resources

Some good reads about Agile processes...

http://www.scrum.com.au/2007/11/18/scrum--use-more-paper
http://www.threeriversinstitute.org/Toe%20Dipping.pdf

red sofa

not very exciting. its a sofa