Railscamp server feedback

[Ben Hoskings]

Hi folks,

Well the Railscamp server has found its new home as my staging machine and media box :)

I thought it'd be a good idea find out how everyone thought things ran at the camp, so I'd appreciate any feedback you have about the server and the other tech we had set up.

In particular,

- what parts did you find the most useful?

- what didn't work well for you, or needed improvement?

- what did you miss?

The one thing I was hoping to have set up but didn't get a chance to finish, was a gemcutter server that would have let us 'gem push' just like normal. So that's probably at the top of the things I think were missing. :)

Cheers

Ben

[Chris Herring]

I can't think of anything apart from the gemcutter pushing gems.

Also the dukejour app was kick arse. And once the voting was working well it bumped up to fucking awesome, so thanks for that work.

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[Lachlan Hardy]

Is there a way to preserve all this hard work for the next organisers etc?

[Mike Bailey]

Dukejour is great!

With some simple installation instructions and a bit of marketing Duke will crush it.

- Mike

[Ben Hoskings]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Lachlan Hardy <lac...@lachstock.com.au> wrote:

Is there a way to preserve all this hard work for the next organisers etc?

Definitely. I installed most of it via babushka, so I'll update the deps I used and then do up some docs for next time.

- Ben

[Lachlan Hardy]

> Definitely. I installed most of it via babushka, so I'll update the deps I
> used and then do up some docs for next time.

Awesome!

[Dr Nic Williams]

3 cheers for our awesome infrastructure!

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[chendo]

Hip hip!

[Steve Hoeksema]

I thought it was pretty damn good overall.

One useful addition might be macports or the apt repositories. That could get pretty big though.

Also for people whinging about lag in games (such as myself) an ethernet switch would be useful. Although I could just bring one myself next time.

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[Ryan Bigg]

It appears that the Meraki's didn't work out so well, but the Airport Extreme(s?) did. Perhaps more of those next camp? Another outlandish suggestion is some switches so that people can plug into those (with their own cables).

[chendo]

I reckon there should be a dedicated wired room for gaming (which is always bound to happen), or maybe a separate wireless network?

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Ryan Bigg <radarl...@gmail.com> wrote:

It appears that the Meraki's didn't work out so well, but the Airport Extreme(s?) did. Perhaps more of those next camp? Another outlandish suggestion is some switches so that people can plug into those (with their own cables).

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[Ryan Bigg]

Railscamp is for the railscampers, not the gamers. If the gamers want their own network it should be their responsibility to provide it, not the camp organisers.

2009/11/24 chendo <che...@gmail.com>

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[Korny Sietsma]

One thing, which is less about the server than the protocols - while
Bonjour is neat, it's not particularly easy to get working on non-mac
platforms; or even sometimes on mac platforms :)

It'd be nice, especially for apps like Brains, if as well as Bonjour,
there were some other way to register your IP address - especially for
Brains, it'd be pretty easy to put in a registration API somewhere;
this would make it considerably simpler to work on other OSs and in
other languages.

- Korny

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[Chris Lloyd]

Yeah I'd like Brains to work too :)

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[Ryan Bigg]

Have you got it running yet? ;)

2009/11/24 Chris Lloyd <christop...@gmail.com>

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[Nathan de Vries]

I understand the frustration -- especially since I was trying to fix
the DNS-SD problems most of the weekend. Carl was on the brink of
setting up a simpler registration system for the reasons you've
mentioned, but there was too much to do in too little time.

For the record, the issue had nothing to do with DNS-SD itself, since
it's actually supported across OS X, Windows and Linux via "dnssd" &
"net-mdns" gems. The problem was more with how we were using the gem
and some tricky threading issues, which I like to think can be fixed
for next camp. Even if we'd implemented a simpler registration system,
many of the actual issues that we were seeing would still have
remained to be solved.


Cheers,

Nathan

[Nathan de Vries]

I understand the frustration -- especially since I was trying to fix
the DNS-SD problems most of the weekend. Carl was on the brink of
setting up a simpler registration system for the reasons you've
mentioned, but there was too much to do in too little time.

For the record, the issue had nothing to do with DNS-SD itself, since

it's actually supported across OS X, Windows and Linux via the "dnssd"
gem we're using. The problem was more with how we were using the gem

and some tricky threading issues, which I like to think can be fixed
for next camp. Even if we'd implemented a simpler registration system,
many of the actual issues that we were seeing would still have
remained to be solved.


Cheers,

Nathan


On 24/11/2009, at 6:08 PM, Korny Sietsma wrote: