Skip to contentFollow:RSSTwitterBrian "Krow" Aker's Idle ThoughtsGo to the showHomeAboutdrizzledrizzle mysql jenkins hudsongearman gearmand opensourcelinkmysqlmysql drizzle skysql perconamysql hpcloudphotoquoteregularUncategorizedJanuary 31, 2014(My) Fosdem ScheduleSaturdayIntroduction to DockerScheduled: Feb 1, 2014, 14:00:00 to 14:30:00Location: H.1309 (Van Rijn)Linux tracing with LTTngScheduled: Feb 1, 2014, 13:00:00 to 13:30:00Location: JansonwolfSSL 2013 Technical and Community UpdateScheduled: Feb 1, 2014, 17:30:00 to 17:59:00Location: UB2.252A (Lameere)Foreman ProjectScheduled: Feb 1, 2014, 16:30:00 to 16:55:00Location: UD2.120 (Chavanne)SaltStack: Scheduled: Feb 1, 2014, 15:00:00 to 15:30:00Location: H.1309 (Van Rijn)Razor – Provision like a BossScheduled: Feb 1, 2014, 15:30:00 to 15:55:00Location: H.1309 (Van Rijn)Sharding and Scale-out using MySQL FabricScheduled: Feb 1, 2014, 16:00:00 to 16:15:00Location:  UA2.114 (Baudoux)NixOS: declarative configurationScheduled: Feb 1, 2014, 18:00:00 to 18:25:00Location:  H.1309 (Van Rijn)MaxScale, the Pluggable RouterScheduled: Feb 1, 2014, 18:35:00 to 19:05:00Location: UA2.114 (Baudoux)SundayAdventures with CloudStack and OpenDaylightScheduled: Feb 2, 2014, 13:00:00 to 13:45:00Location: UD2.120 (Chavanne)Combining the power of Valgrind and GDBScheduled: Feb 2, 2014, 15:30:00 to 16:00:00Location:  K.4.201See Your Project Pulse in Real-Time with FedmsgScheduled: Feb 2, 2014, 14:00:00 to 14:45:00Location: H.1302 (Depage)PicoTCPScheduled: Feb 2, 2014, 13:30:00 to 13:55:00Location: AW1.121Helgrind: a constraint-based data race detectorScheduled: Feb 2, 2014, 13:00:00 to 13:50:00Location: K.4.201GDB, so where are we now?Scheduled: Feb 2, 2014, 15:00:00 to 15:25:00Location: K.4.201Ganeti: the New&ArcaneScheduled: Feb 2, 2014, 11:00:00 to 11:40:00Location: UD2.120 (Chavanne)XMPP in the world of IoTScheduled: Feb 2, 2014, 12:00:00 to 12:30:00Location: AW1.121BoF: Valgrind and GDB integrationScheduled: Feb 2, 2014, 16:00:00 to 16:30:00Location: K.4.201NSA operation ORCHESTRA: Annual Status ReportScheduled: Feb 2, 2014, 17:00:00 to 17:45:00Location: KeynoteMirageOS: compiling functional library operating systemsScheduled: Feb 2, 2014, 13:00:00 to 13:50:00Location: JansonDecember 17, 2013On the Subject of Yearly ReviewsReviews almost always piss people off. Reviewers often seek to find one improvement area because otherwise they feel like they didn’t give any feedback to the person being reviewed. This always backfires because people hear criticism more acutely then they hear praise.My goal as a manager is to give feedback throughout the year. I use the review as an opportunity to ask the person about how they are doing against the goals and feedback I have been giving. If I hear them talk about the items I have brought up with them then I know that I am communicating well.If I don’t? Then I need to try harder.I use the review as a means for providing myself feedback on how I am commu