BalaBit has grown quite a lot in the last 9 years since it was founded, these days there are about 60 employees and more than 50% of that is working in the development field (give or take a couple, I've lost count some time ago). As we currently work on 4 products, support 5-6 CPU architectures and a host of different Operating Systems, automation in development is a must. We try to automate everything and that means a lot. Some examples: preparing the development workstation for development/testing work in 15 minutes for any of our products building source code for tens of CPU/OS combinations by issuing a single command creating bundles of intermediate components when generating setup packages doing releases test automation and a host of other things Some of these solutions are completely our own development, others are derived from public projects, and as BalaBit tries hard to be a good friend of Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) we try to contribute back to projects t...
This blog describes my Home Automation related projects featuring KNX, a Buderus (Bosch) Boiler, custom built electronics, etc.