Sheep Guarding Llama

A relatively uneventful day.  Went to work as usual today.  Nothing on my calendar is left to remind me of what happened so I am thinking that it was pretty low key.  If I remember correctly I was stuck working late today but I do not remember for sure.  This week was so busy with so many other things that I really do not remember.

MangoLassi is doing very well today, everyone is happy with the progress as the site goes into its second day.

I am pretty tired.  It was a long weekend.  Dominica’s cousins are coming on Friday to stay with us for the weekend.  Tomorrow night I am staying late at work to go to a seminar and will not be home until the girls are getting ready for bed.

This morning there is a new, online vendor neutral community for IT professionals to network and learn: MangoLassi.  I am very excited about it.  I am dedicated to the importance of networking and social community within the IT industry and, of late, the value of the existing venues for this has been decreasing horribly.  I have high hopes for this new community.

Today is Monday, back to work today.  Overall a slow day.  But a good day.  Watching MangoLassi mature over the course of the day was very interesting.  It seems to be going really well.  People are loving it and lots of people are signing up already.  Very cool to watch it go.  The platform is fast and easy to use, much better than what I am used to from that “other community” over the past eight years.

More working on my project today, all day.  I am still on call for the office today but unlike yesterday, things were quiet.  I was in the basement for the majority of the day.  I got a lot of good work done, I was very happy.  I have been learning a lot.

I learned a lot about OpenShift today, and a bit about hosting Node.js and MongoDB.  This is the first that I have worked on deploying Node.js applications or with a NoSQL database.  It was all very interesting.

It was a long day and I did a lot of work but my project was over by the time that I went to bed.  A very productive weekend.

I was home all day today.  I am on call this weekend so can’t really go anywhere anyway, but that really wasn’t a problem.  There is a lot to be done at home today anyway.

My day was spent learning about MongoDB, Node.js deployments.  I spent much of the day working on Red Hat’s OpenShift trying to figure out how to use that.  That was the majority of my day.  A lot of learning about some new software and Red Hat’s newly available PaaS system.  It was very educational although not incredibly productive in a grand sense.

I was on call today and worked for several hours for the office, but that was expected and mostly scheduled ahead of time.  No big deal.

I did get a bit of time with the family today too.

Today was a rather eventful day for me.  The day was a bit of online drama that I was not around for which was nice, I got to miss all of that, or nearly so.  I was at work today, it is a Friday, and work itself was essentially uneventful.

After work the evening was spent on a call.  It turned out to be a really important call and, one that I assume, will have ramifications for many years to come.  I can’t disclose any details too much right now but needless to say I am in for one very busy weekend, that is for sure.

More news as events unfold.  And so ends my February.