Very interesting! I an going to try to go to this... Just the other day I was discussing the idea on giving a talk at YAPC::NA::2010 with pretty much this same thesis:
Despite all the whiz-bang new systems admin/automation tech out there (puppet, chef, openqrm, cfengine, hudson, cruisecontrol, etcetcetc...) in order to finish the job I still constantly rely on custom perl and shell scripts... there *has* to be a better way. On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Tom Metro <[email protected]> wrote: > The author of the O'Reilly book _Automating System Administration with Perl_ > is giving a talk at MIT tonight. > -Tom > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [BBLISA] Reminder: THIS WEDNESDAY Jan 2010 talk/mtg "I Got My Jet > Pack an I'm Still Not Happy" > Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:22:10 -0500 > From: John P. Rouillard <[email protected]> > > > Our speaker is David Blank-Edelman. David is the Director of > Technology at the Northeastern University College of Computer and > Information Science and the author of the O'Reilly book Automating > System Administration with Perl (the second edition of the Otter > Book). He has spent the last 25 years as a system/network > administrator in large multi-platform environments, including Brandeis > University, Cambridge Technology Group, and the MIT Media > Laboratory. He was the program chair of the LISA 2005 conference, one > of the LISA 2006 Invited Talks co-chairs and the grateful recipient of > the 2009 SAGE Outstanding Achievement Award. > > The meeting is on Wednesday, January 13 at 7PM in room E51-149 on the > MIT campus in Cambridge (http://www.bblisa.org/directions.html). It is > a short walk from the Kendall Square T station on the red line for > those without cars. > > The subject for the talk is: > > "I Got My Jet Pack an I'm Still Not Happy" > > Systems administration needs help. Over the last > twenty-five years or so I've watched the tools we've used > just barely be able to keep up with the challenges of our > field. New advancements in user interfaces get promised, > offered, adopted and then shed with nothing but temporary > relief. In this "from the trenches" talk we'll look some > of the challenges that have thwarted our best > efforts. I'll also show you some of my puny attempts to > poke at the beast from new directions and see if I can > enlist your expertise in the battle. > > I have never failed to be entertained by one of David's talks, so I > hope to see you at what promises to be an entertaining and thought > provoking presentation. > > -- > -- rouilj > John Rouillard > > _______________________________________________ > bblisa mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa > > -- > Tom Metro > Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA > "Enterprise solutions through open source." > Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm > -- -- Steve Scaffidi <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
