I recently noticed I actually spend a lot of money on hosting and server resources I’m not using at all. Such a waste. After a small research I decided to move all my Droplets from DigitalOcean.com to its competitor - linode.com. I also hosted 2 sites on a separate hosting - elastichost.com - which is also rather expensive. So in the end I sat down and calculated how many resources I need and how many resources I actually pay for. At the beginning I thought that maybe the best solution would be to move everything to a dedicated machine at OVH or maybe Hetzner, but in both cases the cost is ~50-70€ per month minimum. Quite a lot I think, especially when my sites do not have significant traffic.

My goal for the next 2 or 3 months:

I recently found this blog entry on the internet. Let’s see how it will go :). In general I think this is quite a good idea, mainly because you adapt to a “routine” of writing code (if you are not already addicted like me :D). This is definitely good training for your brain. Here is a link to my GitHub profile: https://github.com/robertwe So first I need to find a project :). I already contribute a little bit to the Jenkins CI project, but I would like to create something new.

Have a great day.

– Regards, Robert

Recently I configured a new machine with CentOS 6.5 on board and it turned out the host command was missing. Here is a quick solution for that:

Today I watched a quite interesting hangout. It was a quick (30 min) discussion. Attendees:

• Kent Beck,
• Martin Fowler,
• David Heinemeier Hansson

A few days ago @DHH wrote a somewhat “controversial” post on his blog about TDD and, in general, presented his point of view on TDD. As a result we got a huge discussion on Twitter about TDD. Some people say that every professional should use TDD and so on. In response, the guys from ThoughtWorks organized this hangout.  

Youtube playlist (Parts from 1 to 6)

Here is a talk Uncle Bob gave in 2011 at Ruby Midwest 2011. Honestly, I come back to this talk every two months or so. I must also add that I’m a great fan of Uncle Bob (@unclebobmartin). It also contains some notes about MVC - what the true purpose of MVC is, why it was created and so on. Here it is (you need to click on Read more to load the embedded YouTube video):