KylePDavis/kylepdavis.github.com: My site

tags: health yard mongodb electron docker joyent triton

healthier me
- have lost 11.7 lbs so far
- tracking my food via MyFitnessPal
- walking extra when I can (I like gamification, so this is "earning taste points")
- just reduced my caloric intake by another 200 to go even faster
yard work: part C
- done: mow (grows so fast in Spring)
- pending: mulch, flowers, cutting down extra trees and shrubs
- success: spray for bugs is working on bag worms (didn't see that coming)
- grrr: dandelions are everywhere, birds trying to build nest in my grill

mongodb-workbench (aka mw (formerly mongosaurus))
- trying out electron from the Atom project rather than nw.js (actually started working on this while it was still atom-shell)
- refactored "server" and "database" to use plugins for sub-sections
- pending: refactoring "collection" tab to use plugins for sub-sections
- toying around with using gulp, babel, less, uglify, etc. for building an actual release files
docker
- a nice way of quickly spinning up Linux-based VMs
- great for simplifing complex local development environments
- amazing for deployments to test and production environments -- with this why would I ever want something like chef? :-)
- kitematic is a nice introductory UI that helps simplify some of the extra complications involved with docker container mangement on Mac OS X (due to having to use boot2docker between the VirtualBox VM and your actual docker containers)
- curious if it could use VMs via the built-in Mac OS X Yosemite hypervisor (lighter weight? would just be a new docker-machine target probably)
- suspiciously like SmartOS images but with tools that are a bit more developer oriented
- excited to try the new docker stuff from Joyent, aka Triton, but still waiting on my early access to the beta program to kick in :-/