Passados 51 episódios, neste último sábado o Castálio Podcast completou 2 anos! Foram muitas entrevistas super divertidas, animadas e prá lá de interessantes com pessoas representando vários projetos e áreas de trabalho! Para comemorar, decidi atender aos pedidos de alguns ouvintes e fazer mais uma entrevista… comigo mesmo! A primeira vez foi quando ainda não havia um formato definido e, para falar a verdade, eu não pesava que ia conseguir levar o projeto para frente por tanto tempo.

Este último dia 5 de fevereiro recebi a seguinte mensagem por e-mail: Congratulations for reaching 90 days of service with Red Hat! É difícil de acreditar que já se passaram 3 meses desde que eu comecei este novo capítulo na minha carreira! Meus dias têm sido preenchidos com tantas novidades que isso talvez ajude a explicar porque parece que foi somente ontem que eu sai da rPath para ingressar na equipe CloudForms QE aqui na Red Hat!

This past Feb. 5th I was greeted early in the morning with the following email: Congratulations for reaching 90 days of service with Red Hat! It is hard for me to believe that it has been 3 months already since I started this new chapter in my career! My days have been filled with so many new things that it may explain why it literally feels like it was only yesterday that I left rPath to join the CloudForms QE Team here at Red Hat!

Last October I celebrated a couple of milestones in my life: 5 years living in North Carolina; 2 years since I bought my first house; 11 years married to my wife; 5 years working for rPath; Needless to say, each one of those milestones were very important to me as they mark important decision points in my life! Every single one of them changed my life for the better and I can’t help but feel blessed that I have so many things to look forward to at end of the year that remind me how lucky I have been!

Outubro do ano passado eu comemorei alguns marcos na minha vida: 5 anos morando na Carolina do Norte; 2 anos desde que eu comprei minha primeira casa; 11 anos casado com minha esposa; 5 anos trabalhando para rPath; Te garanto que cada um desses marcos foram muito importantes para mim, já que marcam decisões importante na minha vida! Cada um deles mudou a minha vida para melhor e eu me sinto abençoado por ter tantas coisas para celebrar no final do ano que me fazem lembrar o quão sortudo eu tenho sido!

My employer is currently looking for a Platform Engineer to join our team at our new office in Raleigh, NC! We have a great team working on some really cool and bleeding edge technology here, so if you have significant system administration experience, and have experience creating and maintaining RPMs as well as understanding their dependencies, then you may consider us! Check the full description for this role here and feel free to shoot me your CV.

This is more of a “feel good” post, mostly for me! Through my life I have come across a fork on the road many times, and for the last 4+ years I have always chosen the path to the right. Even when the left side sometimes looked a bit more “paved” and less difficult to walk through, I still chose the right path! The reasons are many, but I think I can distill them into one single sentence: I believe!

It is with great pleasure that I announce the release of Foresight 2.5.0 RC! This time, we have updated images for GNOME, Xfce and KDE! Things are shaping up quite nicely and thanks to all the feedback we’ve received from our users, we should be releasing our GA images pretty soon! Well known for being a desktop operating system featuring an intuitive user interface and a showcase of the latest desktop software, this new release brings you the latest GNOME 2.

It was around the end of 2006. Having spent most of my life living in the New Jersey - New York axis and close to my family, I bought a one-way ticket to RDU, packed my bag (yeah, one bag) and came down to North Carolina looking for a new job. Leaving my wife (who was expecting our second child) and young daughter while I went “job spelunking” wasn’t easy for me, but I was determined to quit the rat race once and for all!

Who said that lightening doesn’t strike twice on the same spot? I’m proud to announce the release of Foresight Linux 2.5.0 ALPHA 2 GNOME Edition! Once again, this alpha release is from our QA branch, and is intended mostly to receive feedback on brand new installs from end-users, specially in relation to the overall behavior of X.org on first boot! Obviously, if you’re already running Foresight Linux 2.5.0 ALPHA1, simply update your system from the command line: *sudo conary updateall*