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Monthly Archives: September 2010

We’re hiring

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

We’re looking for some help, and we can train up a graduate: Us: we’re a small UK consultancy who help people get better at delivering software. It’s easy to write software. Getting it into production where it makes money is a lot harder. That’s where we come in. We make sure that there’s a proper [...]

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The Build AssemblyLifePipeLoom

Monday, September 27, 2010

Dave Farley, co-author of Continuous Delivery (I got my copy last month – more on that in another post) commented on a blog post about the origins of the term build pipeline. He might well do, as it was his idea to make the pipeline concept central to the book. Being a bit of a [...]

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Go with the grain

Friday, September 24, 2010

Go with the grain. When you’re planing wood, you have to follow the grain of the wood. The grain has a direction, which depends on the cut of the wood. (which is the way it grew). Do that and you’ll end up with thin shavings and a smooth finish.. Go against the grain, and you’ll [...]

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Autumn Conference Fun

Friday, September 10, 2010

San Francisco, October 7-8: Puppet Camp. Gutted that I can’t make that one. Though won’t miss the jet lag. Hamburg, October 15-16: DevOpsDays Europe. The first time was great. High expectations for the second, as well. London, November 5-6: Citcon Europe 2010. Prague didn’t give us a warm welcome, but London always does. Also, I’ll [...]

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Do not adjust your set

Thursday, September 9, 2010

The Build Doctor is married, back from honeymoon and straight back onto a project. It hasn’t escaped my attention that this blog took too long to load pages. Pingdom would taunt me every month with reports of the response time being 2 over 2 seconds. That turned out to be the expensive WordPress theme making [...]

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