Notes In The Margin

I spent almost all day yesterday and today working on painting my son's room. You can see the fruits of my labor here.

I'm a little disappointed with the Apache. I think by that time I was just so tired that I didn't have the same attention to detail. I'm very pleased with the mustang and the piper, and the airliner is pretty awesome, too.

My Beloved has painted several murals around the house, and this has somewhat raised the bar when it comes to painting the kids' rooms.

A while back I sketched up a few ideas for Z's room, and I finally got started on it. It's going to be blue on top, and green on the bottom, with various things on the various walls. The wall I've started on is airplanes, and if you squint just right, you can see two of my initial sketches here.

So far I've drawn a P52 Mustang, a A64 Apache, a Piper Cub, a Sopwith Camel, a Cessna 172 that I drew from memory and so isn't particularly accurate, and a view from the front of some kind of commercial jet coming off of the runway.

Later today, I plan to start painting them. I'd like to get the Mustang and the Cessna done, so that we can put up a shelf across the top of the wall.

More pictures as it becomes more recognizable.

Meanwhile, we also repainted S's room, to match her new quilt that my Beloved made for her. It looks awesome.

An svn question, reposted here in the chance that one of my brilliant readers knows the answer:

From #svn on Freenode:

[10:29] Good morning, all you brilliant people.
[10:30] I'm attempting to checkout a versioned copy of a directory tree on top of an unversioned one. So, an installed product, and overlay that with versioned files - modifications to the installed product.
[10:30] Is such a thing feasible?
[10:30] When I try, I get "svn: Failed to add directory 'application': object of the same name already exists"
[10:30] The scenario is a custom build of a product for a customer, which consists of adding/modifying various files on top of an installed product.

I'll be teaching two training classes at the upcoming ApacheCon in Atlanta in November.

On Monday, I'll be teaching Apache, Nuts to Bolts, with Jim Jagielski, another long-time contributor to the Apache httpd project. This class is a day-long training on everything from obtaining and installing the server to configuration, third-party modules, and security, and everything in between.

On Tuesday, I'll be teaching a half-day training onmod_rewrite, the most powerful, and probably most confusing module, and the source of the majority of questions on any given Apache support forum.

I'd love to have you in my classes. ApacheCon will be fun, as always, and Atlanta is a great city. We'd love to see you there.

If you care about scalability, you should care about Surge, a new conference put on by the company that's synonymous with scalability, OmniTI. The speaker list reads like a who's who of scalability - the folks who do this stuff in Real Life and who have figured out the rules and when to break them. Pretty much every hour of the conference offers a choice between two can't-miss talks.

You should go.