June 17, 2007, at 07:36 PM
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Logbook is a wiki group (as refered to by PmWiki) holding daily entries. It can clearly be assimilated to a weblog. More details can be found in Tutorial.Logbook. Displayed bellow the last 3 entries , you can use the calendar on the right to access older posts.

20110729

I started playing with dotCloud (the less opinionated App Engine), so figured I would take CherryPy for a test ride!

Wanted to have a hands on understanding of how infrastructure does things at work:

  1. compile openssl
  2. compile python 2.7 with ssl support
  3. compile git
  4. install easy_install
  5. easy_install pip
  6. pip dotcloud
  7. create a bare repository
  8. git add remote ...
  9. ...

Eventually put together a post-receive hook that checks out the bare repository into a working tree which can then be dotCloud pushed.

There are simpler way to work around ssh port limitation (corporate IT sucks) but they don't teach you as much :D

20110728

To compile git on an old (7.2 Enigma) Red Hat box you need to get the source and jump through a couple of hoops :P

# ./configure --without-openssl --with-python=/usr/local/bin/python
# make NO_NSEC=1 prefix/=/usr install

Why do I keep that old box again?

20110526

I am not a compulsive shopper! It is not that I am a cheap skate but I agree with Thoreau:

"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."

Hence I spend wisely!

Yesterday I went through one of my best retail experience ever. For a few weeks I had been popping in and out of the Six Ounce Boardstore in Manly to look at a board shaped by Neal Purchase Junior.

I have been thinking of going 2+1 for quite some time and the board felt right but for its bottom which I found puzzling (hull - flat - spiral V). Spoke with Taylor about it during one of my visit and finally made up my mind.

Went to Aloha to trade in my 6"6 Pod and put the Visa on fire next door (one big happy family). While looking for the fin (it falls into the single fin category) Taylor called Neal and put me one the phone so we could chat about the design of the board, fin placement and fin/wave coordination. Neal was very helpful and instructive. How cool is that!

I surfed my new baby twice today and experienced pure joy! The drive of the bottom turn is amazing, cutbacks are a piece of cake and boys does she turn! Feeling the flex of the fin is mind blowing ... and I got barreled (which doesn't happen that often so it is worth mentioning).

If you care about the craft(s) you ride and the people who make them you know where to go ;)