Day 20 in the #vDM30in30 So, I’m a bit of a Keyboard geek. I didn’t mean to become one, but after having some issues with wrist strain, I thought I should look into a decent ergonomic keyboard. From there, I fell into the rabbit hole of keyboard geekery. It’s an easy hole to fall into… Plus I was aided by other Keyboard enthusiasts from the Portland Puppet office. If you’d told me I’d spend the amount of money I have on keyboards in my lifetime, I’d be looking at you funny. ...
Day 19 in the #vDM30in30 I can’t remember who recommended it to me, but I’m loving Dash for documentation on a Mac. What is it? From the horses mouth: Dash is an API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager. Dash stores snippets of code and instantly searches offline documentation sets for 150+ APIs (for a full list, see below). You can even generate your own docsets or request docsets to be included. ...
Day 18 in the #vDM30in30 I’ve been a traveling consultant for about 4 years now, and there’s a few pieces of hardware that have made my professional life a lot more enjoyable, tech-wise. Jabra SPEAK 510 A few years ago I learnt about the joy of trying to perform a multi-person standup on one computer. Feedback loops, crappy built in laptop microphones and everyone asking you to mute your mic from background noise when it is working. Not fun. ...
Day 17 in the #vDM30in30 Header image taken from https://www.relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-core/docs/example-groups/shared-examples One of the areas where it’s easy to have WET (We Enjoy Typing) code that you want to DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) up, is tests. When writing tests for similar areas of code, it’s easy to end up copy and pasting. You have to pieces of functionality that need to be tested in the same way, so why not copy and paste the testing code? ...
Day 16 in the #vDM30in30 I actually wrote a Stack Overflow answer to this, but I thought I’d formalise and update it a bit. How do the GUI’s work? So, most Puppet GUI’s and Dashboards use reporting from PuppetDB, so as long as you have PuppetDB in your infra they will work, regardless of your Puppet version. It simply takes reports from PuppetDB and performs queries again PuppetDB for searches about information. ...