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Thursday Sep 08, 2005

Sun Java Studio Creator weblogs

Dashboy finally remembered/ resurrected his password ... In case you're looking for blogs on Sun Java Studio Creator, here's a page with links to some new blogs, they're on some mission ... Creator weblogs Today there was a some outrageous photo shoot. While having my photo taken, a frisky intern Chucky, chucked a stress ball and hit me in the wrong place. I made a fruitless attempt to retaliate and flung the ball through the opening downstairs into the open forum (good thing - no screams from below). Later on, got blown away on the soccer field by Joe. Dashboy needs to take a break from dashboards and fight back.

Posted at 11:53PM Sep 08, 2005 by dashboy in General | Comments[0] | Permalink

Wednesday Apr 13, 2005

Dashboards are still in

Dashboy old fashioned ? Not! I'm a newbie to OS X, but yesterday I just got a loaner laptop to test the new version of OS X. That's about all I can say, However, I see it includes a cool Dashboard. I figured they would call it a Navigation System. Heck my car doesn't even have one. I was afraid ol' Dashboy might be called old fashioned. I don't own an old Charger but that was my favorite car when I was a kid. What adventures has ol' Dashboy gotten himself into? Well my NFS home directory was moved last week so I was frantically trying to get the URLs to my dashboards working. I generate html versions of the dashboards every half hour, others daily and copy the html source to my public_html directory. I do something like http://server/~dashboy/dashboard1 . Accessing this url worked before good ol' Dashboy's home directory was moved (btw, this in my intranet so it'll never work in public land Ha!). Sooo what was the problem? Any guesses? The server I was pointing to mounted my old home directory. So something called an automounter daemon process need to be restarted to the the NIS map of my home directory. Was that it ? Not! public_html showed all the permissions from my desktop, but from the server I was using, it didn't have read permission, well duh. Not even sys admins here could get that one. Now the dashboards are all happy. More adventures next time, same url (dashboy channel)

Posted at 01:23PM Apr 13, 2005 by dashboy in General | Comments[0] | Permalink

Dashboards are still in

Posted at 01:23PM Apr 13, 2005 by dashboy in General | Comments[0] | Permalink

Wednesday Mar 30, 2005

Dashboy's Weblog

Hi, I'm a lowly QA engineer by night then transform into a Superhero named Dashboy during the day. In my dreams ... The truth is I'm one of the lead QA engineers testing Sun Java Studio Creator who revises Quality Dashboards over and over again. Each week I publish a new version. Just before it goes intranet, I wait for an "atta boy." Oh by the way I eat my own dog food. The Dashboards are developed using Sun Java Studio Creator. So, I get to play around with all areas of the product luckily stumbling across some bug. Previous aka's were Bugmeister and showstopper. I used to be notorious in finding major bugs just before a release went out. Dashboards help keep me in line so I find the bugs earlier on. I also go by jawbe on the Creator Forum where I occasionally try to help out our Customers. By the way, my real job is to lead a couple of other QA engineers in developing Applications - we call them Scenarios. Next time, I'll reveal some architecture, whoa big word for Dashboy Back to Dashboarding ...