Category Archives: Development
Ubuntu Developer Summit
It looks like I’ll be starting to blog on our main company site before too long, which will hopefully include someone standing behind me with a sharp stick, poking me and making me write more. In the meantime, here’s my … Continue reading
RESTful Puppet and You
No, I’m actually not dead, as much as it might appear from my lack of updates. Fortunately there are other means to verify my vitality. Anyway, the goal here is to help you understand how the imminent release of Puppet … Continue reading
Using ‘git rebase’ to clean development histories
In general, development in the Puppet world is a series of essentially disconnected batches of commits. We do a pretty good job of applying related commits all at once, so it’s obvious when a set of commits is related, but … Continue reading
The Most Free(tm) Way to Make Money from Open Source
Tarus Balog is on a one-man campaign against open-core licensing, or really, any company that produces both open source and closed source software: Of course, in the open core model there must be “commercially-available extensions” in order to get companies … Continue reading
Summary of February 2009 Puppet Developer call
We had another developer call last night, and until I can get the audio posted, here’s a basic summary. Development Workflow We led the discussion with a conversation about how the development workflow will change now that we’re finally releasing … Continue reading
Puppet on the IT Management Podcast
I was a guest on last week’s IT Management Podcast again last week, and we ended up talking a lot about Puppet and the difficulties in running an open source software company. As always, John Willis and Coté are informed … Continue reading
Data Lifetimes and Cache Expiration
This stuff drives me crazy. (I can’t seem to say “drives me nuts” any more because of the damn joke. That, and hanging out with too many Brits.) I’m putting this post in ‘programmer therapy’ because it’s written more for … Continue reading