James Schumann jschumann

Hostnames should be:

Unique
- This is required
Inherently "meaningless"
- Meaningful names are rigid and brittle; meaningless names are flexible
- Names like mysql1 and lamp1 become inaccurate, but are not updated/changed
- The function of a server should be able to change over time; machines can be given a wholly new name when completely repurposed without causing confusion.
- With meaningful names, understandings of old names and new names can collide (ec-webapp2 holds the Oracle Application Server; ec-appserv1 was chosen as the name for a generic web application server)
- There are better ways to build documentation than embedding it in hostnames
The information in meaningful hostnames is kept incomplete for the sake of brevity

	When /^I fill in "([^"])" with "([^"])"$/ do \|element, text\|
	fill_in element, with: text
	end

	When /^I click "([^"]*)"$/ do \|element\|
	click_on element
	end

	# This is a list of matchers that we use in our RSpec tests at Causes.



	# * CAPYBARA MATCHERS *
	#
	# To check for content on a page, don't use `include`, use `have_content`:
	response.body.should have_content 'A header'
	# As opposed to `include`, this Capybara matcher will only look for content
	# (ignoring tags and meta-info etc). And the error message is slightly easier to

	#!/bin/bash
	# A simple script to make live backups of an organization's GitHub repositories.

	# Where to store the backup files
	GHBU_BACKUP_DIR=${GHBU_BACKUP_DIR-"==/FULL/PATH/TO/BACKUPDIR=="}

	# The GitHub organization whose repos will be backed up
	GHBU_ORG=${GHBU_ORG-"==ORGANIZATION=="}

	# GitHub API token.

	#Functions# {{{
	def parse_team_name(line)
	teamName = /[[:alpha:]]*/.match(line)
	end

	def parse_record(line)
	record = /[[:digit:]]*-[[:digit:]]/.match(line)
	end

	def parse_player_name(line)

	This talk will introduce Chef, an open source configuration, infrastructure, and deployment management tool from Opscode (http://www.opscode.com/chef/). We'll see a demo of managing a few machines with Chef, talk about the problems this solves, and discuss why you want to use the same tool Facebook uses to manage their infrastructure, even in a one person shop. You'll discover peace and tranquillity through managing configuration as code and learn more about the DevOps movement, why it's not that new to a lot of web makers, and why you should still care.

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