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What do you get if you take one accountant with “a fondness for spreadsheets, finance and business” and mix with “a life-long passion for video games”? Well it’s obvious isn’t it? A turn-based RPG made and played entirely in Microsoft Excel.
(via Paul Moloney)(tags: via:oceanclub arena.xlsm excel spreadsheets games gaming rpg)
serverspec – unit tests for servers
With serverspec, you can write RSpec tests for checking your servers are provisioned correctly. Serverspec tests your servers’ actual state through SSH access, so you don’t need to install any agent softwares on your servers and can use any provisioning tools, Puppet, Chef, CFEngine and so on.
(via Dave Doran)(tags: via:dave-doran puppet testing chef cfengine unit-testing ops provisioning serverspec rspec ruby)
joshua’s blog: overclocking the lecture
Joshua’s old tip on watching videos at 2x speed using Perian
(tags: quicktime video hacks mac speed lectures presentations learning)