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Document Scheduled Jobs with Google Calendar
27.Aug.08 | Leave a Comment
I’ve literally spent years trying to come up with a rational and simple way to document the scheduled jobs that I have running on multiple servers.
My jobs tend not to be anything fancy – in fact, Windows Task Scheduler and the scheduler in SQL Server tend to satisfy my requirements just fine. But lordy, I [...]
More Power
13.Apr.07 | Leave a Comment
Last week, in “The Wonders of 7-zip” I discussed how enabling multi-thread support chopped my nightly backup zip times from 3 hours to just over 1 hours (actually 1.25 hours).
Today I ran the same process on a new server, which is sporting a single, but quad-core Xeon. It did the same job in 30 [...]
The Wonders of 7-Zip
06.Apr.07 | 1 Comment
This past week, I've spent a lot of time going over our nightly job streams and the various relationships between jobs across our many servers. These jobs handle things like code promotion, database syncs (dev/qa/prod), backups, mirrors, disaster recovery, etc. etc. Things have changed a lot since I initially put a lot of [...]
Another Job Search Aggregator? PageBites.com
09.Mar.06 | 1 Comment
[co-workers have been giving me funny looks lately about these sorts of articles...]
First I looked at SimplyHired. That generated a comment suggesting I check out Indeed. That one generated an email from "Jenny" encouraging me to have a look at PageBites.com. Aren't I eager to please? Seriously though, I think this [...]
Indeed - Some More Job Searching
06.Mar.06 | 2 Comments
[man, I'm glad the folks at work don't really get this whole blogging thing yet or these topics would get quite awkward]
I mentioned SimplyHired in a post last week. Still have those feeds rolling in. Received a comment to that article suggesting a I have a look at Indeed.com as well. As [...]
