AT&T – Reactive vs. Proactive

10 Dec 2009 — eric

As much as I hate to steal a title or a good joke, I want to title this post iPhone Outage? There’s An App For That. Why? Because it’s funny.

So why am I talking about reactive vs. proactive? In case you haven’t seen it yet, AT&T recently came out with an app called AT&T Mark The Spot. The idea behind the app is that if you have a dropped call or bad reception, that you open the app, click your problem and it will mark the spot by sending the information to AT&T. I am still not entirely sure how this app works in an area where there is NO reception, how does it know where you are to tell AT&T?
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Thoughts on Blog Posting

19 Nov 2009 — eric

During a conversation I was having with Nirvdrum about blog posts, we got to discussing the validity and credibility of blog posting along with how and why people do it. I have a few thoughts on this topic.

The first and foremost reason that I write blog posts is that engineers who spend a lot of time figuring things out on the fly could use a helping hand. A lot of that figuring is done piecing together parts of other people’s solutions to problems from various blogs and papers. Every time I run into an issue or fix a problem, I try to write a blog post about it. I don’t do this because I feel that I have more to offer than anyone else, I just feel like my work should be able to benefit others (there is no use in reinventing the wheel). And to top it off, if I do something and someone has a better way, I like hearing about it in the comments or from an email.
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Converting From Subversion To Git

16 Nov 2009 — eric

Now that I have basically fallen for Git, I decided to finally move my Subversion repository over to Git (this way I can finally have a remote backup of it that I am comfortable with on Codaset).

The method for this was a lot more straightforward than I expected it to be. For the conversion tool, I used Nirvdrums fork of svn2git. It a feature complete version of the svn2git portion though the rest of it is still is development. Since it is a Ruby gem, getting it installed was a breeze. Just make sure that you have Ruby and rubygems installed.
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Remote Code Storage

9 Nov 2009 — eric

I was chatting with a friend of mine the other day about version control and why it’s necessary. So I decided to throw together a few options and a little explanation about why its important.

I have been using version control in some form or another for many years. I started with CVS, then moved to Subversion (which I still use quite a bit), and now, as my latest post about Git GUI’s on the Mac suggests, I have moved to Git. The one thing that has been consistent across every single transition has been that I had some sort of remote code storage every time. During the CVS days, I used a CVS pserver and stored my code locally and remotely for safety (and ease of checkout/deployment). For subversion, I always stored my code locally and used an apache install somewhere with a WebDAV module to get at and deploy whatever code is necessary.

Ultimately I use remote code storage for 2 reasons, back up my existing code base (so I have it in more than one place) and to have a visualization of what is going on in your project. That visualization is handy to be used as a central consistent view for multiple people (unlike a personal client which can be different per user).
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