So far so good. On the right you'll find a leftover from the previous occupant of my space. It's been over 2 years since my last job change, so I forgot about how much work it is to get integrated into a new environment. Adding 30+ IM contacts, updating the address book, setting up the laptop, getting e-mail just so, etc.
Adding to that is jumping into a very different environment. There's lots to like and lots to learn. So far I'm getting up to speed on:
- Perforce (instead of subversion, cvs, etc.) -- looks powerful and clunky at the same time.
- Jira - this is very cool. It combines bug tracking, agile sprints, and a wiki all in one. It's mediawiki, trac, RT, and FogBugz all in one.
- SuSE SLES 9 - With the infamous ReiserFS filesystem. Give me yum over YaST anyday...
- Hyperic HQ - Nagios+Cacti+much more. Includes autodiscovery and can automatically restart services when they fail. So very nice.
- Zeus as a frontend to redundant memcaches.
- Java Resin/JSP/JDBC/Eclipse/... less said the better.
There's lots more going on here than you'd think. A bit strapped for time at the moment -- will blog more soon...
