Life after defence ... Source

November 26, 2007 Markdown source

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2title: 'Life after defence ...'
3date: '2007-11-26'
4published_at: '2007-11-26T19:58:00.000+11:00'
5tags: ['cpt', 'programming', 'work']
6author: 'Gavin Jackson'
7excerpt: 'Well, it''s been quite some time since my last post - life in the new job has been pretty busy, I''d forgotten how hard it is starting a new job, so much to learn in so little time! The jump from IT sec...'
8updated_at: '2007-11-26T20:09:32.250+11:00'
9legacy_url: 'http://www.gavinj.net/2007/11/life-after-defence.html'
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12Well, it's been quite some time since my last post - life in the new job has been pretty busy, I'd forgotten how hard it is starting a new job, so much to learn in so little time!
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14The jump from IT security to performance testing has been an interesting one - the holistic view of systems design and architecture has definitely provided me with a good grounding to understand what our automated test harness is doing - it's written in (OO) Perl, using a Mysql database with Bash scripts used to glue it all together.
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16My primary role is to help with the development and day-to-day administration of the harness. My new team has an interesting mix of experience including mid-range unix, DB2 and mainframe.
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18The system we are working on is interesting, and the work challenging - I'm learning lots of new things! I've signed up for linux.conf.au in January (which will be held down in Melbourne). I look forward to meeting up with my old team mates at this event...
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---
title: 'Life after defence ...'
date: '2007-11-26'
published_at: '2007-11-26T19:58:00.000+11:00'
tags: ['cpt', 'programming', 'work']
author: 'Gavin Jackson'
excerpt: 'Well, it''s been quite some time since my last post - life in the new job has been pretty busy, I''d forgotten how hard it is starting a new job, so much to learn in so little time! The jump from IT sec...'
updated_at: '2007-11-26T20:09:32.250+11:00'
legacy_url: 'http://www.gavinj.net/2007/11/life-after-defence.html'
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Well, it's been quite some time since my last post - life in the new job has been pretty busy, I'd forgotten how hard it is starting a new job, so much to learn in so little time!

The jump from IT security to performance testing has been an interesting one - the holistic view of systems design and architecture has definitely provided me with a good grounding to understand what our automated test harness is doing - it's written in (OO) Perl, using a Mysql database with Bash scripts used to glue it all together.

My primary role is to help with the development and day-to-day administration of the harness. My new team has an interesting mix of experience including mid-range unix, DB2 and mainframe.

The system we are working on is interesting, and the work challenging - I'm learning lots of new things! I've signed up for linux.conf.au in January (which will be held down in Melbourne). I look forward to meeting up with my old team mates at this event...