Every couple of months I keep dreaming of being adult and working but that I still have to pass some university exams. Tonight I dreamed about “Prestressed concrete structures” which is still being taught by Di Prisco. Quite obviously I would say because a couple of weeks ago I attended a course on fiber reinforced concretes held by Di Prisco himself.
It’s quite funny to notice that even my wife keeps making dreams like this…
Mood
I’m going to get a new workstation. This time I will use CentOS, so I will have a real machine to test Liberty Eiffel rpm packages
As usual
They won’t change. That’s the usual, maddening bureaucracy that is sinking this country. That’s the only thing a good-willed person can say after reading Dichiarazione dei forfettari: occorre tenere la contabilita
expecially this passage:
Lately I’ve launched a big dist-upgrade on my aging machine at work, discovering that our seldom used StatusNet stopped working.
Today I’ve been trying to upgrade it from StatusNet 1.1.0 to its current version, i.e. Gnu Social 1.2.x
You got it. I’ve been trying. Debugging scripting languages can be quite an headache.
End of audit
Audit finished. It’s time to celebrate a little (with a gift given to my wife who don’t like wine, no one is perfect)…
Master of cracking
It seems that I’m a master in breaking automated tests. Do you think I can count it as a proficiency? 🙂
Liberty Eiffel automated tests (Bell branch)
Last update: 2016-05-11 11:44:02 +0200 (CEST)
git pull failed (1)
Too much
Testing time: git clone --single-branch -b bell Tybor@git.sv.gnu.org:/srv/git/liberty-eiffel.git bell
For real, this time.
Learning VIM
She likes to write on the terminal.
She is learning VIM.
She is 6 years old.
Epiphany
Today I have realised that I never published all the programs I have been writing during my career in the building industry.
I always have been thinking that they weren’t worth to be published as I would have labelled them as “little hacks”.
Until today.
Today I realised that they actually show some of my programming skills, mainly used to deal with the little frictions between legacy and newer softwares.
For today I will publish them, partly here, partly on github. After all so many people have been using github repositories as a coding portfolio.
I may discover that those that I rate as skills are staple, day-by-day skills that every system administration worth of the name shall have or that those are not actually skills. I will take the risk of being joked on the net as the civil engineer who liked to behave as an IT professional but he’s actually a low tech guy.
Actually during all those years – you won’t believe it – for this company I’ve been coding in:
- Commodore 64 BASIC
- Amigabasic
- AREXX
- Python
- some bash, also using ask and sed
- a little C
So, let this “Paolo the wannabe” series being…