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I have been recently diving head first into the wonderful world of the shell. Having spent a fair amount of my career on Windows machines at work (even though I have been using Mac’s at home for 6+ years), it’s only in the past year that I have made the full switch to 100% Mac […]
March 11, 2013
I recently needed to make the same update to a large number of Jenkins jobs. Essentially, we decided to change our naming convention for our jobs. A simple change. In order to achieve this, I took advantage of the Jenkins Script Console. The Jenkins Script Console allows you to run Groovy code against Jenkins to […]
February 21, 2013
On Tuesday night, my meetup group (DC Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment Group) joined forces with a number of other groups to present the most awesome gathering we have ever known. The meeting was the brainchild of Nathen Harvey, who runs the DevOpsDC and MongoDC user groups and works for OpsCode as their Technical Community […]
February 21, 2013
I recently completed ‘The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win‘ and thought I would write a review. I mainly wanted to capture notes and thoughts about the book for myself. The Story First off, hat’s off to the authors (Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford) for turning the […]
February 15, 2013
I recently ran across some project code that when checked out of version control, failed with an obscure warning. After some digging around in the code, I realized the script made a reference to an external plugin library. I had no clue where to acquire this library or setup this build. I had to reach […]
February 15, 2013
My boss Steve asked me the other day why I have never posted anything about Boyd’s Law of Iteration. ”Your blog’s name is ‘Early and Often’, right?”. He’s right, I have no excuse. Boyd’s Law is the basis for most popular software development approaches. Lean, Agile, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Lean Startup…all have their foundation in […]
February 7, 2013
Yesterday I posted a video of Sam Brown and I giving a talk on Improving Design through TDD. We gave this talk at the DC Agile Engineering Conference last December. I was also lucky enough to give a second that day on Continuous Delivery Applied. Like the previous talk, this one was also recorded and […]
March 19, 2013
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