Friday, November 21, 2008
As of Wednesday night CruiseControl 2.8 is available for download (full release notes).
I’ve got a good feeling about this release because unlike a lot of releases I have the feeling that we’re doing more than adding feature and fixing bugs (though we did that too). This release felt like we were paying off technical/hygiene debt at [...]
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Last week while attending Scott Ambler’s talk on Agile in Practice at SDBP I tried and failed to share his Agile Criteria slide in real time. Apparently there’s a limit to what iPhone, Twitter and sloth can accomplish in a dark lecture hall. So here, only one week and one day later are Scott’s criteria, the things he looks [...]
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
(This isn’t for you. This is a love letter to my unit tests, who deserve it, who deserve a 5 am stream of consciousness homage.)
Slow builds really bug me. And having lots of unit tests is no excuse for a slow build. If you think they are, there’s something you’re not doing right.
This past week or so [...]
Monday, September 15, 2008
I’m going to be talking at this year’s Software Development Best Practices in Boston with Paul Julius. Our talk is Creating Habitable Code, and we’ll be drawing on our experience with CruiseControl as our central example.
My interest in topics like continuous integration, developer testing and mundane excellence have the common thread of “how do we maximize our [...]
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Today Ben Simo twittered a link to Cem Kaner’s keynote slides from CAST 2008 on The Value of Checklists and the Danger of Scripts. This was timely for me because I’d been trying to describe to a friend about why I thought manually executed scripts are worse than useless.
Even better, at least for general inspiration, Kaner’s slides included [...]
Eric Lefevre posted a message to the CITCON mailing list today sharing some information about the upcoming CITCON Amsterdam. We currently have a very similar registration level to where CITCON Brussels ended up last year, but we have more than 2 months to go! I think we’ve every reason to expect great things out of [...]
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On the CruiseControl users mailing list Adam asked for a simple label incrementer that would work with a single character in a series (”a”, “b”, “c”, etc.). Simple enough, but not worth adding to the project, so here it is, test (first) and code.
(Suggestions for better sites for sharing code snippets?)
Back in 2006 Alistair Cockburn and I gave a talk at SDBP on “Creating Change one Tic-Tac at a Time”. As I wrote at the time this talk incorporated ideas from lots of different sources, and I’ve drawn on these ideas on many occasions since then. Most recently I shared some of the slides at CITCON Melbourne [...]
Rob Hunter blogged about my blog entry on the iPhone meetup where he showed off Scribular. I remember just enough of my one semester of Scheme to find this blog entry funny.
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Last night I attended a really neat event, the Silicon Valley iPhone Developers mislabeled WWDC Roundup. The only way for the title to make sense is that the speakers were people that organizer Tim Burks (creator of the cool Nu programming language) was able to roundup at WWDC. The panel was composed of:
David Abramson, Muse
Steve [...]