Friday, December 17, 2010
I did a workshop at the fantastic Spa conferencee this year. The purpose was to try and gather patterns in the software development process that didn’t come out of the GoF book or PoEAA. This is the output from those sessions, so late that I will at least do time in purgatory, if not someplace [...]
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Patrick Debois kicked off the first DevOpsDays conference (and in doing so, came up with the name). He’s coming over from Belgium in January to talk about DevOps at SkillsMatter. Patrick is a master at making entertaining presentations, and a nice guy to boot. I highly recommend registering for the talk now, regardless of your [...]
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Here’s Tuesday’s links from My Twitter Stream. 23:34: Awesome. We can make jQuery powered killer robots now: jQuery face detection plugin http://facedetection.jaysalvat.com/ (via @Rikf)
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
In response to a recent article, I spoke to Jez Humble about Go: Me: Who are you, and what do you do for Go? Jez: I wear a couple of hats: I am product manager for Go: ThoughtWorks Studios’ CI and release management platform, and I also talk a lot about how to deliver software. [...]
Thursday, December 9, 2010
One of the things I first noticed about Team City is how thoughtful the features were: you can see that a build had failed, and stop it so as to not waste bandwidth. It seemed that they were actively using the product as they developed it. I spoke to Yegor Yarko in the wake of [...]
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Here’s Wednesday’s links from My Twitter Stream. 11:56: Puppet Homebrew Package Provider http://www.jedi.be/blog/2010/12/08/puppet-homebrew-package-provider/ 11:35: @jasminebdd done! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheBuildDoctor/~3/EiH7ClS-J4E/
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
I’ve been test driving the domain of my build radiator, XFD with the lovely Jasmine BDD framework for JavaScript. Jasmine is lovely. Browsers aren’t. Spawning a new browser to run your tests has issues for me: Spawning a browser takes time and ruins my flow, I’m trying to drive out logic – having a browser [...]
Here’s Monday’s links from My Twitter Stream. 09:55: In the same week that Amazon kowtow to the govt, they launch a pretty cool looking DNS hosting service: http://aws.amazon.com/route53/ (via @i386)
Go West: There’s a new release of Go. Features include authentication on pipelines, and enhanced templating and reporting. We built this team city on rock and roll: New Team City release. With overdue Maven improvements, bundler support, and a safer upgrade procedure (that one used to hurt). Like thunder and lightning: Electric Cloud have been [...]
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Here’s Wednesday’s links from My Twitter Stream. 23:06: Octocat Wednesday — Free micro plan for a month – GitHub https://github.com/blog/754-octocat-wednesday-%E2%80%94-free-micro-plan-for-a-month
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