Merge branch 'what-was-i-working-on'

source/2016-04-24-seven-years-under-a-palm-tree.markdown

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ title: "Seven Years Under A Palm Tree"
 date: 2016-04-24
 ---
 
+![Our old logo, so easy you can be on the beach!](/img/2016-04-24-seven-years/capistrano-logo-big.png)
+
 The last time I wrote on this blog was June 2013 as I geared up to launch
 Capistrano v3 which was a complete ground-up rewrite. The rewrite had been
 "finished" and working for a while, but given that it was a ground-up rewrite
@@ -46,29 +48,40 @@ rewrite, it's inarguably better looking, more concise and easier to pick the
 important information out of, but people can be resistant to change, so it's
 super easy to set back to the previous `pretty` formatter!
 
-Another important part of the 3.5 release is the integration with
-[Harrow.io][1]. Harrow is platform/service/company that I founded with some
+**Another important part of the 3.5 release is the integration with
+[Harrow.io][1].** Harrow is platform, service and company that I founded with some
 friends to make my work on Capistrano more sustainable by making it into my day
 job. We built something that you can understand as being a "Continuous
 Integration" tool but with a really distinctly different design to anything
-else you migth have come across. It's designed to feel like a web-enabled
-extension of Capistrano's principles. With stages, and sets of environment
-variables, designed to make the tooling it wraps better, faster, and easier to
-use. Like most things I've thought about doing with Capistrano over the years,
-not least rewriting it from scratch, the decision to promote Harrow from within
+else you migth have come across.
+
+It's designed to feel like *a web-enabled extension of Capistrano's principles*.
+With stages, and sets of environment variables, designed to make the tooling it
+wraps better, faster, and easier to use.
+
+Like most things I've contemplated doing with Capistrano over the years, not
+least rewriting it from scratch, the decision to promote Harrow from within
 Capistrano was not taken lightly, it's important to strike the right balance
 between offering people a better experience with their software, without
 forcing them into something they might come to resent.
 
-The current scope of the Capistrano+Harrow integration is a simple in-terminal
-prompt (well behaved, presuming "no" if no answer is given within a few seconds
-or no facility to prompt is available) when running `$ cap install` which
-happens once and only once per project. We may expand the scope of this
-integration in the medium-term future depending on the community feedback.
+The scope of the Capistrano/Harrow integration is a simple in-terminal prompt
+(well behaved, presuming "no" if no answer is given within a few seconds or no
+facility to prompt is available) when running `$ cap install` which happens
+once and only once per project. We may expand the scope of this integration in
+the medium-term future depending on the community feedback. The integration
+does make one anonymous HTTP request to allow us to toggle things `off` incase
+things go badly, which can be opted out of by simply setting `$ git config ...`
+which will stop the integration doing *anything*. (We designed the integration
+to be *so* discreet that *it doesn't even write a dot-file with
+configuration!*)
+
+![A screenshot of the integration](/img/2016-04-24-seven-years/integration-screenshot.png)
 
-Capistrano will always remain open source and [liberally licensed][6]. Harrow
+**Capistrano will always remain open source and [liberally licensed][6]**. Harrow
 is closed-source (for now) platform with a cloud subscription model, and an
-on-premise "enterprise" version which are offered as paid commercial services.
+on-premise "enterprise" version which are offered as paid commercial services. With that
+said, I'm still curious to see how the community reacts.
 
 ---
 

source/index.html.haml

@@ -36,50 +36,65 @@
   %a(class="carousel-control right" href="#projectCarousel" data-slide="next") ›
 
 .page-header
-  %h2 Education
+  %h2 Work History
 
 %dl
   %dt
     %i.icon-asterisk
-    Colón Language Center
-  %dd
-    :markdown
-      Deutsch als Femdsprache (*German as a foreign language*) (Current Level: *B1*)
-  %dt
-    %i.icon-asterisk
-    Burnley College, England
+    Harrow.io
+    %em
+      Hamburg, Germany 2014 - Present
   %dd
     :markdown
-      A-Level Psychology, Business, Computer-Sciences & (Short Course) Mathematics
+      [Harrow] is the world's most advanced SaaS solution for testing,
+      deployment and oeprational tasks.
+
+      Harrow was designed to be a "web based" [Capistrano] runner. Capistrano
+      is widely uses for operational tasks such as maintenance as well as
+      deployment. Harrow satisfies all existing use-cases of all existing CI
+      (Continuous Integration) providers whilst adding support for secure
+      storage of secrets, assitance with
+
+      [Harrow]: http://www.harrow.io/
+      [Capistrano]: http://www.capistranorb.com/
+
   %dt
     %i.icon-asterisk
-    Mansfield Technology College
+    Wacku Ug
+    %em
+      Hamburg, Germany 2011 - Present
   %dd
     :markdown
-      **GCSEs:** English, Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Geography, Religious Education
+      [Wacku] is my software development agency. I built a network of great
+      people and we've staffed and supported many many projects big and small.
 
-.page-header
-  %h2 Work History
+      We're a collective that has changed configuration and size over the last
+      4 years, but we've always been a group of at least three, sometimes
+      growing as large as 7 to staff longer, more challenging projects.
+
+      [Wacku]: http://www.wacku.de/
 
-%dl
   %dt
     %i.icon-asterisk
     Speach Media GmbH
     %em
-      Hamburg, Germany 2010 - Present
+      Hamburg, Germany 2010 - 2011
   %dd
     :markdown
-      Speach Media's main project is Freiminuten.de; Acting as CTO, I ensure that we
-      make the correct technical decisions, and keep the platform moving in the right direction.
-      I am also their only developer. (*that part isn't so great!*)
-
-      I took over the project after the initial 8 week inception phase, after 12 months of
-      feature development and paying-back of *technical debt* we were able to focus on a variety
-      of improvements to the backend APIs which enable the platform to be autonomous, and run with
-      almost no human interaction.
-
-      The stack is Ruby on Rails, Resque, Elastic Search, Sinatra, [Middleman], SASS and HAML.
-      Running on top of a Chef managed [Linode] cluster running Ubuntu.
+      Speach Media's main project is Freiminuten.de; Acting as CTO, I ensure
+      that we make the correct technical decisions, and keep the platform
+      moving in the right direction.  I am also their only developer. (*that
+      part isn't so great!*)
+
+      I took over the project after the initial 8 week inception phase, after
+      12 months of feature development and paying-back of *technical debt* we
+      were able to focus on a variety of improvements to the backend APIs which
+      enable the platform to be autonomous, and run with almost no human
+      interaction.
+
+      The stack is Ruby on Rails, Resque, Elastic Search, Sinatra, [Middleman],
+      SASS and HAML.  Running on top of a Chef managed [Linode] cluster running
+      Ubuntu.
 
       [Middleman]: http://www.middlemanapp.com/
       [Linode]:    http://www.linode.com/

source/layout.haml

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
     %meta(name="description" content="Software engineer, entrepreneur, freelancer and open source contributor")
     %meta(name="author" content="lee hambley, lee.hambley@gmail.com")
     %link(rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="/feed.xml")
+    %link(href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Libre+Baskerville|Open+Sans' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css')
 
     /[if lt IE 9]
       %script(src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js")
@@ -41,64 +42,6 @@
                 %i.icon-map-marker
                 Hamburg, Germany
 
-            .page-header
-
-            :markdown
-              I'm the founder of a successful consultancy company personally
-              offering extensive experience with Ruby, PHP, Lua, and SQL
-              (MySQL and PostgreSQL). Sometimes I work with JavaScript,
-              C or Objective-C. I [contribute] heavily to open source.
-
-              I've maintained [Capistrano] for the last few years; it's
-              the de-facto standard for deploying Ruby or Rails applications. I'm
-              working hard with a couple of [awesome people] at making
-              it work well for other projects too, you can [watch us work].
-
-              [Capistrano]:     http://www.capistranorb.com/
-              [contribute]:     https://github.com/leehambley
-              [awesome people]: https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/graphs/contributors
-              [watch us work]:  https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/tree/v3
-
-            - unless is_blog_article?
-              .noPrint
-                :markdown
-                  You can hear it in [my accent when I talk], I'm an Englishman
-                  in <span class="strike">New York</span> Hamburg.
-                  [my accent when I talk]: http://open.spotify.com/track/1yrNoXJopuBtsL5Vj62ESi
-
-            - unless is_blog_article?
-              :markdown
-                I like working with [Rails], [Sinatra], JSON, [Javascript],
-                [Backbone.js], [MiniTest], [Chef], [Sinon.js], [Elastic Search]
-                Chrome, [Pragmata Pro], [Vim], [iTerm2], [Pinboard.in] on my Mac.
-
-                [Rails]:          http://www.rubyonrails.org/
-                [Sinatra]:        http://www.sinatrarb.com/
-                [Javascript]:     http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596517748.do
-                [Backbone.js]:    http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/
-                [MiniTest]:       https://github.com/seattlerb/minitest
-                [Chef]:           http://www.opscode.com/chef/
-                [Elastic Search]: http://www.elasticsearch.org/
-                [Sinon.js]:       http://sinonjs.org/
-                [Pragmata Pro]:   http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragmatapro.htm
-                [Vim]:            https://peepcode.com/products/smash-into-vim-i
-                [iTerm2]:         http://www.iterm2.com/
-                [Pinboard.in]:    http://pinboard.in/
-
-            :markdown
-              **You can [hire me] to work with you if you think I'd be a valuable addition or lead for your project.**
-
-              [hire me]: /hire_me.html
-
-            - unless is_blog_article?
-              .noPrint
-                :markdown
-                  You may also be interested in the work of some good friends of mine, [Ralph von der Hayden], or the inexorable
-                  [Hendrik Mans].
-
-                  [Hendrik Mans]:         http://hmans.de/
-                  [Ralph von der Hayden]: http://rvdh.de/
-
             .row
               .span8
                 - if is_blog_article?

source/stylesheets/style.css

@@ -34,7 +34,17 @@ ul.blog-titles .article-link {
   background-position: 0 0;
 }
 
-p {
-  font-size: 14px;
-  line-height: 18px;
+h1, h2, h3, h4, h5 {
+  font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
 }
+
+body, p {
+  font-family: 'Libre Baskerville', serif;
+  font-size: 11pt;
+  line-height: 2em;
+}
+
+li {
+  line-height: 2em;
+}
+