Wildfalcon

Thinking and developing in everything – by Laurie Young

Date archive for November, 2005

  • First Job Interview

    23 November 05 • Comments

    I have just had my first job interview. It was a phone interview with www.kizoom.com. I have to admit it wasn’t what I expected. The questions were very simple, so much so that they took me by surprise, so I forgot to mention a couple of points. Note to self: The main difference between an [...]

  • Continous Integration with Rails

    16 November 05 • Comments

    You would think that a nice new extreme and agile framework like ruby on rails would have a good continuous integration tool, but apparently not. I have spent the last two days tinkering with both Damage Control and CIA and can get neither of them to work.
    Damage control on Linux barfs when trying to [...]

  • Valuehost – the ongoing saga of nothing happening

    16 November 05 • Comments

    Two days have passed since I paid valuehost the money they want to get UDS back up online. The valuehost control panel still says we haven’t paid, and all my messages to them have been ignored. They certainly are not doing anything to counteract the rumours that they are just crooks.
    I could set up [...]

  • Valuehost – or not

    15 November 05 • Comments

    Sometime on Friday night http://www.universitydancesport.com stopped working. After a day or so it became clear that it was not due to a temorary technical hitch. On Monday both Jess and I independently managed to discover the problem was that our hosts, valuehost (link diliberatly not included so no-one makes the mistake of following it!), had pulled [...]

  • Job Hunting

    11 November 05 • Comments

    Well i’m now well and truely into job hunting. I have finished my CV, though not yet webified it. I have sent of CVs to several worthy employers, and I have attended the less than worthy carears fair at Imperial. Come on employers - I have spent 4 years doing a PhD, don’t tell me that [...]

  • Python and Rome

    3 November 05 • Comments

    Well it’s a while since I have written anything here. I have been having some down time, relaxing after my PhD submission. I now have a date for my Viva, the 1st Dec. I have also been promoted to webmaster for IVDA, so I’m now in charge of www.universitydancesport.com. It has to change, quite drastically! [...]