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Programming is hard work. It’s an intense mental activity. Good programmers think about their work 24/7. They write their most important code in the shower and in their dreams. Because the most important work is done away from a keyboard, software projects cannot be accelerated by spending more time in the office or adding more people to a project.

via David Veksler

So, I was looking at my logwatch report the other day, and saw one of my webservers was getting hammered via sshd. No big surprise, it happens, but, I started thinking about denyhosts, which was suggested to me by a friend a while back. It may work, but because its a log parsing application, it falls prey to a couple of oportunities which I am not interested in. Such as spoofing the user/pass name on the SSHD log to lock the localhost out, or to lock out the root user.

So the run today was incredibly brutal because I spent the weekend finishing the unpacking. I have been here for 6 weeks, and I had pretty much moved in already, but I finally got off my butt and finished unpacking the last of the boxes that will be unpacked. It was a fair amount of stairs, and lifting, so when I got on the treadmill tonight, on an aggressive new running schedule, I felt my calves and shins tighten up immediately. I know that I will be sore tomorrow, but I am enjoying the pain right now.

So, as I look forward to writing more personal code, I find things like Bespin, which looks really cool. However, it makes me wonder how well I can get it to integrate with a VCS, and with the other IDEs I am working with for offline access. Also the whole system requires that I am able to host my own repository. I know there are publicly available ones, such as Bitbucket but I am just not sure that I want to be using that type of a system.