Monthly Archives: December 2011

The cost of everything, the value of nothing

When I was a lad, I used to devour guitar magazines. My favourite articles in these magazines were the gear reviews. I’d read page after page about guitars, amplifiers and effects pedals that I’d never be able to afford, weighing … Continue reading

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Of build farms and BASH queues

I recently wanted to implement a simple build farm for our build servers at work. Currently we have a pool of three machines whose job it is to watch the repository for checkins on various projects, and build each update … Continue reading

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