I learned ruby last week
Time to give myself a little pat on the back.
Last week I sat down to work for a whole working day on “whatever I wanted to”, as part of the Canonical Server Team’s pilot “Fedex Day” program. Mathias Gug and I both looked at this idea from Dan Pink’s book “Drive” and thought it made sense to try it out.
Management approved, and we set about on a day of “work on one thing, make it go, and then show it off the following week”.
I was originally going to work on improving the search capabilities of the MoinMoin wiki software that we use at Canonical. But it turns out, somebody already did that by adding Xapian support, and so we really just need to backport that to whatever version of Ubuntu canonical’s servers run on.
So, I decided to tackle another issue that has been nagging at me. Continue reading