cool — by Toomas Römer
22
Jan 12

Another excellent Devops Weekly

One of the few newsletters that I actually read is Devops Weekly. It is a no bullshit, just content type of weekly newsletter composed by Gareth Rushgrove every Sunday.

As I was reading this week’s issue (55th) and clicking the links I stumbled upon couple of presentations that I thought I’ll mention. Some interesting facts and fiction from the presentations

  • Interesting stats about Etsy
    • > 1 billion page views / month
    • $300+ million in sales in 2010
    • $41.1 million in December alone
    • 721 deploys in November
    • Engineering team grew 4x during past 15months
    • Great startup definition
  • Work in trunk, branch in code
  • Focusing on performance
  • Logging and graphing almost everything
  • Cool pictures and screenshots
  • Perf-related data belongs in your server logs

Here are the presentations.









cool / creative / humour — by Toomas Römer
06
Jan 12

Skype Bot for Fun and Profit – Part II – Getting it Running

This is a post from the Skype Bot for Fun and Profit series. This is the second part in the series and if you want to get your bot running you will need to have some prerequisites filled out, see the first part for the list.

Configuring and running

There is a skype-bot project at github. It is written in Java and has support for simple functionality. You can clone it via:

git clone https://github.com/toomasr/skype-bot.git

The project is maven based and once you import the project into your favourite IDE that has maven support it should compile out of the box. Before we can actually run the project we need to make couple of adjustments. First make a copy of the project.properties file and make it personal.properties. Then change the username, password and pemfile attributes in the file. Make sure that the folder that has the pem file also has a der file that has the same name (except the extension of course).
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cool / creative / humour — by Toomas Römer
06
Jan 12

Skype Bot for Fun and Profit – Part I – Getting Started

This is a post from the Skype Bot for Fun and Profit series. This is the first part in the series and for a complete list see the original article.

Join the Skype Developer Program

A lot of necessary documentation and also software is behind a login screen at Skype Developer Program. You will need to join the program to continue and log in. This will cost you 10$. I personally don’t like the monetary fee for documentation and a SDK but I’m happy this is not 100$.
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cool / creative / humour — by Toomas Römer
06
Jan 12

Skype Bot for Fun and Profit

Couple of months ago I was travelling and found myself in a hotel room with many hours to kill. For no particular reason I started hacking on a Java based Skype bot. Couple of weeks later I took the time to polish it and enable it for company wide notification chatroom. Now couple of months later I’m on vacation and will write about how to write a Skype bot in Java.

The Plan


Image by Simon Abrams

The Skype bot needs a bit more work than your average IRC bot because of the proprietary nature of Skype. There is much clicking and downloading of certificate stuff to get you started for example. Also I want to show you how to put the bot into action, so we will go beyond just the bot.
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review — by Toomas Römer
27
Jul 11

What I saw at Devops Talks Back event in London

Just had a great evening at the Devops Talks Back event in London. My smartphone was dumb enough not to update its timezone information on arrival to UK and I was 2 hours early. Luckily the event took place at a mini Google like office from the Forward guys, besides coffee and drinks I was asked if I needed a laptop to kill time :)

I chatted with the early arrived organizer and speakers about Ruby, Java deployments and British comedy sketches (Big Train, Little Britain and Alan Partridge).
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