Paul Reed04/19/13
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This episode, we delve into the always-squishy “DevOps culture” and take a closer look at the process of both asking and answering questions.
Luis Aguilar04/19/13
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Inversion Of Control is one of the most common and widely used techniques for handling class dependencies in software development and could easily be the most important practice in unit testing.
Amit Saha04/19/13
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I have been playing around with the Raspberry Pi (Pi) for two months now. Here are some thoughts and observations.
Nitin Kumar04/18/13
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What challenges can DevOps address in current organization environments, and how can it provide benefits to business and IT users?
Trevor Parsons04/18/13
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After a bit of research, I discovered that the secret is to put the umask statement in my .bashrc file before the line that says [ -z "$PS1" ] && return as when Capistrano logs into the server, it doesn't have an interactive shell (and so $PS1isn't set.
Sreejith Sreekumar04/17/13
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Problem at hand: Setting up a HornetQ as a standalone instance and running a JMS queue on it. Then getting a Spring webapplication connect to the queue to send and receive messages.
Rob Allen04/17/13
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We’re just back from Heroku’s Add-on Provider Summit in London where we were getting the skinny on Heroku’s upcoming addon provider roadmap!
Jeremy Hess04/17/13
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The numerous benefits of unit testing have been well documented and extensively written about but surveys conducted by Typemock show that in many cases, unit testing is dropped after the first negative experience despite their financial and professional value and before its benefits become apparent.
Eric Minick04/17/13
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We’ve all seen it. The application breaks on a developer’s laptop. It’s fixed by a configuration change such as adding a data source or changing a threshold or toggling something.
Steve Smith04/17/13
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While Continuous Delivery has a well-defined value proposition and a seminal bookon how to implement a deployment pipeline, there is a dearth of information on how to transform an organisation for Continuous Delivery.
Mark Needham04/17/13
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I’ve been working on a tutorial around thinking through problems in graphs using my football graph and I wanted to deploy it on a local vagrant VM as a stepping stone to deploying it in a live environment.
Fabien Taysse04/16/13
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JUnit's "Theories" runner is an (mostly) undocumented experimental runner that allows you to run your @Test method (your @Theory) against all possible combinations of parameters (your @Datapoints) you can throw at it.
This article shows a simple example, a common caveat with the default runner, and how you can write your own data supplier to get better control over the values passed to each parameter of your @Theory
Eric Gregory04/16/13
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Today: Scaling at Pinterest, Netflix pushes HTML5 video, a new CoffeeScript learning tool, and an international collaborative effort to solve software challenges in space and on Earth.
Mark Needham04/16/13
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As far as I can tell the reason for this is that bitbucket hasn’t been verified as a host by the VM and therefore the equivalent of the following happens when it tries to clone the repository.
Ian Mitchell04/16/13
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User Stories are simple in construction but there are complex issues to be resolved in their application. In this article we look at some of the issues involved, such as the authoring of Acceptance Criteria, how to handle defects and tasks, and whether or not User Stories are appropriate for the capture of Non Functional Requirements.
A. Jesse Jiryu Davis04/15/13
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The lightning talk I gave at PyCon is now online. I talked for 4½ minutes on Toro, the package I wrote to provide locks, events, conditions, semaphores, and queues for Tornado.
Chris Haddad04/14/13
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Open source PaaS, Open APIs, and Open Ecosystems are accelerating agility, empowering developers, and enabling innovative business strategies. In a recently published white paper, I describe how adopting a New IT plan can create a responsive IT team.
Eric Minick04/14/13
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Last week, Matt Wagner and I presented a tutorial (now recorded) on Building Air Framework Plugins.
Jessica Thornsby04/14/13
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The Apache Subversion team has announced two new releases: Subversion 1.7.9 and 1.6.21. Subversion 1.7.9 improves the error messages for svn:date and svn:author props, and it improves the logic in mod_dav_svn’s implementation of lock, as well as a list of other features and fixes
Lakshan Perera04/14/13
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Last 3 months has been the most exciting and yet challenging period of my life. I migrated from Sri Lanka to Singapore to join with an early-stage startup called Nitrous.IO.
Ben Wootton04/13/13
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You can try to anticipate and reason about all of the things that can go wrong with your software and code defensively for these situations, but in a complex system it is very likely that some combination of events or inputs will eventually conspire against you to cause a failure or bug in the system.
Trisha Gee04/13/13
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Lets talk about mechanical sympathy. Martin Thompson has been making this term very popular in software development, so it's best to read his description of why he used the term.
Jessica Thornsby04/13/13
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SmartSVN is a powerful and easy-to-use graphical client for Apache Subversion. There are several clients for Subversion, but here are just a few reasons you should try SmartSVN.
Alan Skorkin04/12/13
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One of the things we almost always do these days when we write our libraries and apps, is use other libraries. Inevitably something will go wrong with those libraries and exceptions will be produced.
