random ruby/rails stuff
After a few hours of testing ipv6 from home yesterday, I decided that who else except us, IT pros, will move the technology forward.
So, I set up a tunnel to my server today, and http://ipv6.blog.startika.com/ is now live. (You do need to have ipv6 connectivity to view it)
This way, when the day comes, I'll be ready =)
Yes, I know all the links from there still go to the v4 version. This can be fixed by simply making a AAAA record for blog.startika.com, but I'll refrain from doing it right now.
Today I got the best snail-mail letter in years.
Background: I recently joined the Wix.com team as a Systems And Deployment engineer, and started working with the chef server management system. After a few days I wrote a tiny patch, and requester developer access to the Opscode JIRA to submit it. (I'm currently working on a much bigger and useful patch)
And today, I received a envelope with my name on it to the corporate address from Opscode. I expected it to be some legal stuff (we signed a CCLA), but instead I found this:
(sorry for the photo quality, it's from a cameraphone)
I was really touched, you know. These guys really seem to care about open source contributors. Keep up the good job guys, and we'll try contributing more!
Thanks, Adam and Jesse, you made my day!
It's been awhile since I last wrote here. Quite a lot happened in the meantime.
I now work at a really nice russian company named Getalime. It's small, very friendly and cozy. Funny thing is that 2 weeks after joining it I moved to live in Israel, so I never met any of my coworkers =)
I've been involved in a lot of Rails (and even one Merb) projects. My first patch has been accepted to the Rails core. I'm one of the two first russian regular ruby podcasters, with 100+ RSS subscribers and around 400 listeners of each episode. I'm not sure if it's a lot or not, but I'm happy anyway =)
Now I've decided that it was about time to revive this blog, and so I will try! See you soon, i hope.
Well, yes. I've done it. I betrayed ruby and rails, and migrated the blog to WordPress.
Mephisto is a nice try, but it's not as useable and powerful as the big player in blogging.
My boss said I should write my own blog in SmallTalk, which I'll probably do one day, but it's much longer to do than adding WordPress to my nginx+php-fastcgi setup =)
PS: I'll add feed redirection a bit later, for now no one will notice the migration for now