I am so excited! And I just cant hide it!

Today NIKON_D5000_20120908T114952_02I start a new journey with some of the smartest people on the planet. I have accepted a position with CFEngine. Primarily I will be assisting customers with the evaluation, design, implementation and policy writing. If you know me from the CFEngine community, don't worry I only plan to increase my activity and continue to help in any way I can. Now one of my favourite hobbies is my job! (Read More)


Canonifying a list with CFEngine 3

John Sanders Glass_pour_section_on_restaurant_wine_listshared a pattern for canonifying lists in #CFEngine on irc.freenode.net yesterday. It's a useful reference so I thought I would replicate it here. (Read More)


Working around getindices with dynamically generated arrays in CFEngine 3

There is a known bug where getindices is unable to get the index Workaroundof a dynamically generated array until the next pass. This comes up from time to time so I thought I would post an example using a pattern shared on the CFEngine help mailing list. The policy below shows 3 working examples. They are mostly similar, example0 shows the simplest workaround, example1 and example2 in addition show ways to suppress the "Duplicate selection of value for variable" messages. (Read More)


Deep thoughts

bundle common knowledge(status)
{
  vars:
    "software" string => "$(status)", policy => "free";

    !isUsable::
      "software" string => "usable", policy => "free";

    isUsable::
      "software" string => "reusable", policy => "free";

  classes:
    "isUsable" expression => regcmp("$(software)", "usable");
    "reUsable" expression => regcmp("$(software)", "resuable");

  reports:
      Morning|Afternoon|Evening|Night::
        "Before software can be reusable it first has to be useable.",
          comment => "Ralph Johnson";
}
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CFEngine 3.4.2 Changelog for Breakfast

Changelogs Dexter Eggsare just as important as the most important meal of the day. OK so I don't always eat breakfast, but I do make an effort to read changelogs. CFEngine 3.4.2 was released today. (Read More)