Welcome to Domain51.com, online home to Travis Swicegood for more than 8 years. This site now serves as a central hub to all things Travis, aggregating his latest releases, blog posts, tagged items, comments, with a few extra goodies thrown in from time to time.

Latest releases...

Domain51_MicroBench 0.2 (devel)
Released on February 23, 2008

The following changes:

  • allows benchmark sources without an explicit setup section
  • outputs results when only 1 loop is performed

Domain51_MicroBench 0.1 (devel)
Released on January 3, 2008

This is the initial devel release of this package

Phing_d51SSHTask 0.0.2 (alpha)
Released on December 6, 2007

This is a general clean up of code and fixes an issue which might cause segfaults on some installations. Changes in this release:

  • Fixes issue with segfaults when attempting to read the output from an execution
  • Fixes issue with commands that didn't have a newline at the end
  • Adds init() method to check for ssh2 extension
  • Attempts to load proper ssh2 extension if not already available.
  • All log() calls now how proper Project::MSG_* constant attached allowing output level to be controlled properly
  • Adds an example build.xml to show how to use the ssh task

Phing_d51SSHTask 0.0.1 (alpha)
Released on December 5, 2007

This is the initial alpha release of this package

Phing_d51PearPkg2Task 0.6.2.1 (alpha)
Released on October 19, 2007

Fix issue introduced by previous "fix"

Latest from my blog...

To Hell and Back: the story of Michael Vick's pit bulls
Posted on June 13, 2008

Next time you start to stereotype something - be it a person or a dog, remember these pups:

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When being an engineer isn't helpful: Kansas Motorcycle Test
Posted on June 12, 2008

As I think most of you know, I picked up a Piaggio Fly 150. I need to get my motorcycle learner's permit and/or my license. There's an on-road motorcycle course that's being offered here in town that I'm considering taking that waves the need to take the motorcycle skills test - haven't decided on that yet.

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Polyphasic Sleep: Night 1
Posted on June 9, 2008

Despite dire warnings, I've decided to give polyphasic sleep a try. This week is pretty routine for me on the work front, so I think I can get away with it.

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Write a blog post: Check
Posted on June 4, 2008

So this is the second day in a row that I've explicitly taken 10 minutes to write out a to do list for the day. 10 minutes is the max. If I make it that long and am still writing things out, tough. On today's list was write a blog post which was positioned after responding to a bunch of emails. Responded to those messages, now time for the blog post.

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Heading to php|tek
Posted on May 19, 2008

Yeah, I know... it's been a long time. Life's been busy. Between work, PHPT, the book, and my new scooter there's been little time for little else. I've really got to take Chuck's lead and give polyphasic sleeping a try. Until then, I'll have to get by just making the occasional updates.

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