s0enke

Any book recommendations on lean and systems thinking in SaaS organizations?

• integrating dev/ops into customer support and other way round
• metrics for "customer happiness"
• team boundaries: rights and responsibilities: what to do if conflicting goals? How does the system find out that it might have conflicting goals.
• sustainable business focussing on flow rather than ob short time profit. What are the cultural and technical foundations of a sustainable SaaS business.

I already read "Web Operations", "Kanban", "Agile Management for Software Engineering: Applying the Theory of Constraints for Business Results" but there is too little focus on SaaS IMHO.

thomaswitt

# Put this into lib/tasks

require 'rubygems'
require 'bundler'
require 'aws-sdk'
require 'socket'
require 'os'

if Rails.env.development?

fnichol

Auto-enable Local HTTP Caching in Test Kitchen

Note: total experiment and hack, looks nasty, could be awesome:

Setup

• Drop the kitchen.local.yml into $HOME/.kitchen/config.yml
• Install polipo (with Mac: brew install polipo, with Ubuntu: apt-get install polipo)
• Drop polipo-start and polipo-console somewhere useful (perhaps $HOME/bin?)

practicingruby

I am starting the very early phases of writing a book 
about the human side of software development. It'll cover 
things like:

* Usability
* Maintainability
* Writing understandable code + building understandable products
* Team dynamics
* Technical writing and communication
* Measuring and assessing productivity

tobstarr

FROM ubuntu:12.04
RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y openjdk-6-jdk curl git-core build-essential bzr
RUN mkdir -p /tmp/downloads

# install go
RUN curl -sf -o /tmp/downloads/go1.1.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz -L https://go.googlecode.com/files/go1.1.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz
RUN mkdir -p /opt && cd /opt && tar xfz /tmp/downloads/go1.1.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz

# install jenkins
RUN curl -sf -o /opt/jenkins-1.523.war -L http://mirrors.jenkins-ci.org/war/1.523/jenkins.war

mattetti

package main

import (
	"bytes"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"log"
	"mime/multipart"
	"net/http"
	"os"

mitchellh

// This is a dead simple wrapper that can have setuid set on it so that
// the sudo helper is run as root. It is expected to run in the same CWD
// as the actual Ruby sudo helper. Any arguments to this script are forwarded
// to the Ruby sudo helper script.
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"os"
	"path/filepath"

roidrage

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

pid = Kernel.fork do
  `#{ARGV.join(" ")}`
  exit
end

trap(:CHLD) do
  print "\n"
  exit

benhoskings

# If you're having cert issues on ruby 2.0.0-p0, the issue is most likely that ruby can't
# find the required intermediate certificates. If you built it via rbenv/ruby-build, then
# the certs are already on your system, just not where ruby expects them to be.

# When ruby-build installs openssl, it installs the CA certs here:
~/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p0/openssl/ssl/cacert.pem

# Ruby is expecting them here:
$(ruby -ropenssl -e 'puts OpenSSL::X509::DEFAULT_CERT_FILE')
# Which for me, is this path:

bkeepers

[alias]
  fixup = !sh -c 'REV=$(git rev-parse $1) && git commit --fixup $@ && git rebase -i --autosquash $REV^' -
  squash = !sh -c 'REV=$(git rev-parse $1) && git commit --squash $@ && git rebase -i --autosquash $REV^' -