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Monthly Archives December 2009

Scotfail.

A warning, gentle reader: this post is filed in the category ‘swear-filled ranting’. When I say ‘swear-filled’, I don’t mean I say ‘gosh-darned’ a lot. My goal here is The Thick Of It-level swearing. This particular post is the result of First Scotrail deciding that trains don’t need to run on time or finish their [...]

Posted 15 December 2009 † John § Swear-filled ranting ‡ Comments (6) °

Xen, LVM, CentOS, and a large hammer.

At work we’ve been trying to do more comprehensive release testing, on the basis that it’s a Good Idea to make sure our stuff works. Part of this is testing the deploy process. Our software is installed into Linux appliance servers that are used specifically for this one purpose. One of our products works well [...]

Posted 04 December 2009 † John § Software § Technology § Testing § Virtualisation § VMWare § Xen ‡ Comments (0) °