Imagine the scenario where, given 3 days to work on it, a developer can get the deployment time for their code down from 3 hours to 20 minutes. This company does, on average, 42 deployments per year (you can guess these numbers are totally imaginary).
So 3 days at 7.5 hours per day means we are investing 22.5 hours on this.
The return is the difference between the deployments, multiplied by the number of deployments that are needed. So 3 hours is 180 minutes – so we save (180 – 20) = 160 minutes with each deploy. We do that 42 times in a year so we’ve saved 6720 minutes (per year) which is 112 hours or 14.9 days.
Project managers might not like to lose 3 days from their schedule but how do they feel about having a spare 3 weeks each year?
So, I crocheted a blanket for my friend’s baby (welcome, Benjamin!)
Error: /usr/include/php5/ext/pcre/php_pcre.h:29:18: error: pcre.h: No such file or directory
I didn’t have the header files for pcre installed – in ubuntu the headers are in the -dev packages so I just installed what I needed:
sudo aptitude install libpcre3-dev
Re-attempting the pecl install, everything worked as expected. This is on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, and from reading around you’d want to install the same package in response to this error message, regardless of what you were doing to cause it. Hope this helps someone.
