On 01/08/2014 20:17, James wrote: > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes: > > >> New job, new environment. Existing persons suffer from >> 5-year-old-with-a-hammer syndrome and assume cron is the solution to all >> ills. Result: a towering edifice of cron jobs that may or may not >> clobber each other's work, may or may not work at all, and implement no >> error handling at all. But my god, can they spew out mail from STOUT > > Sounds like a department full of computer scientist I inherited a few > decades ago...........
I've met folks like that.... Brilliant in their chosen field but completely useless outside it? The kind of fellows who see nothing wrong with eating a barbeque'd steak with a spoon because they can get a result? > > I know nothing bout chronos, but I find it an interesting read....ymmv. > > > http://nerds.airbnb.com/introducing-chronos/ > http://airbnb.github.io/chronos/ > https://github.com/airbnb/chronos Aaaaaaaah, now this sounds like something I can use. Proper dependency chains, Restful JSON interface so the devs can write code to drive it in automation. Good find, thanks! > > > cheers mate! > > James > > > > > > -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com