Devops is all about making us more productive, right? So here's my current workflow to upload and test a Chef cookbook:

• edit in Textmate
• go to the browser and load the web page for the Juniper VPN
• enter my username
• enter my 4-digits PIN + 6-digits token from the RSA thingie (assuming I have it with me)
• wait for the page to load
• click on a "start VPN" button
• wait for it to load
• upload my changes
• oh crap, the VPN changed /etc/hosts again--vi /etc/hosts
• upload my changes--whew, success
• switch to the VPN app and close it
• click on OpenVPN and connect
• enter my password
• fuuuu, enter it again--the domain policy just forced me to change it and I haven't memorized it yet
• switch to Cord to connect to my devel VM
• dammit, that's so slow
• click to accept the f@## disclaimer from the CIO
• bring up powershell again--why does it go to background on whim?
• run Chef. hey that's easy, it's just up-arrow. except when it's down-arrow. still, piece of cake
• Chef and Windows VMs... sloooooooooowwwww
• oh crap, I made a mistake. let's fix it!
• wait, I have to switch VPN--go to step 1