Very cool. Download, launch, done. It is super simple and hopefully will get some people wanting to use PostgreSQL more. It has a default db of your userid, no password. Set your app to localhost/ for dev work. You can create new dbs pretty easily. Much easier than installing MySQL. The real trick was getting psycopg2 installed. Once I updated xcode and installed the commandline apps through xcode it worked like a champ.

I really wanted to get on to the water this summer and spend some time floating around. Didn’t really want to get a jet ski, because I don’t want to pull it behind my car. Didn’t want to get a sailboat or catamaran for pretty much the same reason. Ended up getting a Hobie Mirage Outback kayak. It’s a really nice little boat. One of the nice features is you can pedal it instead of paddle. I also got the sail kit which makes it a small sailboat too.

My Twitter handle is @scotty. for some reason people think if you put a @ in front of a name, like @Scotty McCreery, its going to go to @ScottyMcCreery. That’s because those people are idiots. Those all go to me. Also, maybe people should look up with the real twitter handle is. Perhaps people should be smarter than a bowl of soup. I think I might be asking a lot though.

I’ve been at Rackspace for six years. I don’t think I’ve stayed anywhere for that long. I spent the first five working in IT, at first as a developer, then the last year as a development manager. Then a little over a year ago I got the opportunity to move to CloudFiles as the engineering manager. I love where I’m at and my team is hella smart and easy to get along with.

We’re heading out after the LAX meetup. Next stop is Denver. Damn this RV is buuuuumpy. I had a good time visiting my buddy Art. It was his birthday this weekend and we went out and threw it down hard. Really nice meeting his kids for the first time. Sho has a great arm for a three year old. I’m looking forward to seeing him in the majors. Rai is independent and quiet. Looks just like Art. It was also real good seeing Arnold, Simon, Bolo and Art’s buddes again. I need to make it a point to get out there more often. Had some pretty sweet Japanese food on Saturday and awesome Korean food on Sunday.

Still a bit tired from the trip. Started monday with some documentation talks by Anne Gentle. The doc guys are using wadl to create api docs, but Swift doesn’t have one. I’m starting to think that there has to be an easier way to do discovery and documentation of APIs.

We ventured out a bit and got some coffee from Blue Bottle coffee. I had some brazillian beans and they used the coffee siphon. Probably the best coffee i’ve ever had. Next to that was a food truck called Chairman Bao, where i had a Coke Brazed Pork sandwich. Excellent. Highly recommend it.

Well we made it. 29 hours of driving through El Paso, Phoenix, LA and to San Francisco. I’m exhausted but it was a great trip. We had a pretty good vision of what we wanted to do. I don’t think we did as much work as we initially envisioned. The Clear modem didn’t work for most of the trip and our cell coverage was pretty spotty. I drove through a pretty gnarly sandstorm outside El Paso, the steering wheel was at a 45° angle or more due to the wind. Sleeping was kind of rough. It’s hard to sleep when you’re bouncing around due to 60mph gusts. We made it thought, with plenty of Red Bull and Monster.

On fridays at rackspace we get a bunch of foodtrucks that come and visit. It adds some really excellent variety to lunch and don’t have to go anywhere, which is really nice. I think the foodtruck folks like it too.

i hope to add some of my old posts in once posterous decides to release them. i’m going to use static generated pages from now on.

i’m going to the openstack summit on saturday. we are traveling via RV from San Antonio to San Francisco in one straight haul there. we should arrive on sunday and the conference is the whole week. we are going to take our time returning, going through LA, Denver, Dallas and Austin, meeting up with users and developers. i’m going to be the Swift guy on the trip. should be fun.