Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/01
About a year ago, this company was incorporated: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/10542519
; DROP TABLE “COMPANIES”;– LTD
[WayBack] ; DROP TABLE “COMPANIES”;– LTD – Overview (free company information from Companies House)
via: [WayBack] From the Trololo-Dept: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/10542519 – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/01
One day I must re-publish these papers:
ID: 1454 First name: Jeroen W. Last name: Pluimers User name: Biography: Jeroen Pluimers has had a long history in software development ranging from high-level knowledge-based systems to low-level communcation. After discovering his love for teaching, he started one of the first Delphi consulting firms in Europe, and has been speaking at national and international conferences ever since. He presents on Delphi, C#, the Microsoft .NET Platform, and Linux. Jeroen is a Certified Delphi Developer and Borland Certified Instructor. Jeroen’s strength is in getting totally different technologies to work together. He likes to integrate different languages, platforms, frameworks, and databases. As a bug hunter and idea generator, Jeroen has contributed to many products such as Developer Express? Component Development Kit and Borland Delphi. In his free time, Jeroen plays percussion in a world-famous marching band. He also enjoys reading fine books and sampling foreign cuisines. Image not available
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From the referencing pages:
Intermediate paper for Delphi programmers starting to use Linux. It explains how to use and integrate Linux and Kylix with Windows and Delphi.�
As a Delphi developer, you will find C# easier to learn than you might have thought. Get a head start with this revealing presentation.�
This session describes COM, CORBA and SOAP, indicating what they share, what sets them apart, and how you can choose among them.�
This session provides a demonstration of ReCruit, including a discussion of its development and deployment process. ReCruit was built using Delphi and InterBase.�
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/01
Today is [WayBack] Check your backups Day! started by @CyberShambles in dedication of the @Gitlab outage on 20170201.
Please check your restoration process now. As people screw up and accidents happen (I know first hand from a client).
Why isn’t this date on January 31st? Long short story: the failure started that date, but restoration took most of 20170201. So February 1st it is.
Others will follow and GitLab wasn’t alone, as a few days before soup.io had to restore a 2015 database backup.
It all comes back to
Nobody wants backup.
Everybody wants restore.
which made it to the 2008 [WayBack] adminzen.org – The Admin Zen and has been attributed to various people including [WayBack] to Kristian Köhntopp and [WayBack] to Martin Seeger who told Kristian Köhntopp that it was coined by Sun’s Michael Nagorsnik at one of the early [WayBack] NuBIT. Martin was there; he knows (:
The oldest mention of the phrase I could find was in 2006 by Volker Bir at [WayBack] Spy Sheriff – so how do people get infected w/ this thing?.
Keeping clients in the loop
Since soup.io hosts their updates blog on their own platform, the restore resulted in the post prior to [Archive.is] Update after crash ;) – Soup Updates sort of ironically being the mid-2015 [WayBack] Give us your money! – Soup Updates. Usually dogfooding is a good thing though.
During such a downtime, it is crucial to stay in touch through alternative channels. Soup.io didn’t do a good job on their twitter account: they only announced the “update after crash”, not being down, why or progress.
They also deny the WayBack machine access to updates.soup.io because of [WayBack] robots.txt because how they redirect through /remotes, but luckily Archive.is doesn’t care about that and has less old updates.soup.io archived as recent as end of 2015.
GitLab did a much better job on their GitLabStatus account.
Postmortems and organisation culture.
Everybody can screw up, and usually a severe outage happens even when everybody tries to do the right thing. The only way to learn from it is to have [WayBack] Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture – Code as Craft.
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