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February 13, 2005
In-car testing (Family Vacation)
Ok - this post has so many cool things in it, I don't know where to begin. I'm just going to post the email as it came in. This is from our UNBELIEVABLE guru QA guy, Danny. I'm just going to quote it:
"Okay, I didn't think I could pull this off, but I actually was able to implement "Jambo for families". :-) A Mac and a PC on an adhoc network chatting between the front seat and the back seat while barrelling down the highway (no, I wasn't driving). Right now I have the Mac in the seat next to me with a VNC connection to it (not much desk space here in the car). It's syncing by hitting the PC's forwarded SSH port over the adhoc network, which then goes out over the cell phone to the test server.
Sometimes technology does what it's supposed to do....
Now let's start an ad campaign for "Jambo for airport shuttles". ;-)"
A few points there:
1) What a statement - Danny is AMAZING. He knew we had to launch, so he did what he could (WAY beyond the call of duty) knowing we had our launch starting tomorrow!
2) What an amazing technology feat - testing on the highway in a car! (Gotta love ad hoc networks!)
3) The ad hoc was too cool, but he then took it the next step and tested the datacenter stuff as well - by hitting our datacenter through his CELLPHONE!
Thank you Danny!!
Posted by Jim at February 13, 2005 08:47 PM