i was on a panel at web 2.0 expo discussing cloud operations. a great time was had by all and there was excellent audience engagement, participation, and questioning during and after. developers: the future of operations is in your hands.

this excellent piece on the trouble with url shorteners from joshua schachter seems to me a perfect companion to this proposal from henning von vogelsang on referencing sources in twitter messages. oh, such interesting times!

what would a week be without new code? after eight months ignoring it i went back to the tlsreport code and was horrified by it. some hacking and slashing has produced tlscollect which is a standalone, command line tool and gem for tls configuration detection.