And On This Farm He Had A Blog

@matigo I can see the issue there. For me, with limited manpower and hundreds of servers out there I'm grateful for the reprieve.

You know what's good? Stringent unit tests

You know why they are good? I'm drinking quite a lot more than usual and have moved onto revamping some code responsible for payroll and taxes.

Why am I doing this?

You do this for enough years and it gets boring. I am trying to add some challenge.

If I ever meet Lennart Poettering, I will probably need bail money after it is over.

Have switched over to moving a MySQL database extension over to mariadb.

I have to hand it to the mariadb folks, they did an AMAZING job of maintaining backward compatibility. Very few changes needed made to some very complicated functions in this library.

Having more hassles packaging it for RHEL7 than anything else.

RPM triggers are nasty and I do not like them.

@peemee At least I have your attention. (Sorry)

@matigo I figure I will have the hard stuff done after four or five of them.

The best tool to have when porting 22 year old C code from a long gone vendor.

To put an exclamation point on the mildest summer I've ever experienced in the American south-east, the leaves are already starting to turn.

Up north, this is generally bad news for winter. Hoping this isn't the case here.

@kdfrawg They've been crapping it out since 1979.