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In a recent sermon at our church, a pastor student said to us that we are no longer able to say that Jesus will make his disciples fishers of men . Rather, she suggested, we should use the politically correct phrase fishers of people . There is always talk of gender-inclusive language when it comes to Bible translation. But this one seems a little too far. Or it doesn’t feel right. As I have been thinking about this, I came across....
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On the Mingle team we believe continuous improvement is paramount to consistently delivering real value to our customers. We invest in it heavily to minimize waste and always look for opportunities--both large and small--to improve how we work. A recent example of how we’ve improved our process has been whittling and “WIP-ing” our wall. And it all began with a call to action by what had become our “weighted” wall.
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How do I do CD with Go?: Part 5: The power of pipeline templates and parameters
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www.thoughtworks.com
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13 years ago
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Pipeline templates are useful when you need two pipelines to do the same things except that they build against different repositories or different branches of the same repository. This latter case is common. You might have a short lived branch and a long lived mainline. Using templates here is better than cloning the mainline pipeline because any future change to the template will automatically get reflected in both mainline and branch.
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Here’s the latest version of my Oracle session level performance Snapper tool: https://github.com/tanelpoder/tpt-oracle/blob/master/snapper.sql I’m going to add more stuff to Snapper in coming days, but thought to release something for testing already :) There are some cosmetic changes, like printing empty lines and header lines for better readability (still controllable by the pagesize parameter, look into the scripts). I..
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Here’s the latest version of my Oracle session level performance Snapper tool: https://github.com/tanelpoder/tpt-oracle/blob/master/snapper.sql I’m going to add more stuff to Snapper in coming days, but thought to release something for testing already :) There are some cosmetic changes, like printing empty lines and header lines for better readability (still controllable by the pagesize parameter, look into the scripts). I..
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There are some really useful subreddits hidden away on Reddit and it can be a great place to get questions answered. AskScience is my favourite example. There are also a few more technical, narrowly focused sub-forums, so I wondered if there was one for ImageJ or Image Analysis. Sadly, neither exists. So I did what Reddit is meant to enable individuals to do: I created a subreddit, r/ImageJ. So far I’m the only one posting in it, but I hope..
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One of the common questions we get for Codename One is regarding testability. Cross platform frameworks are notoriously hard to auto-test and so fail when you try to build more complex applications. We see this as one of the most important areas in which we can innovate and leapfrog native OS environments by offering testing that is just as cross platform as Codename One is. We aren’t just announcing our own unit testing API, we are annou..
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One of the biggest mistakes that I feel that Drupal has made is that it is difficult for non-administrators to create accounts for other users. While at first blush this seems appropriate, there are many, many valid reasons that users should be able to create accounts on behalf of other people. The problem is that, in all versions of Drupal (at least 5-8) there is a call to drupal_goto() inside the form generation function that is execu....
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One of the biggest mistakes that I feel that Drupal has made is that it is difficult for non-administrators to create accounts for other users. While at first blush this seems appropriate, there are many, many valid reasons that users should be able to create accounts on behalf of other people. The problem is that, in all versions of Drupal (at least 5-8) there is a call to drupal_goto() inside the form generation function that is execu....
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A sci-fi short story inspired by Isaac Asimov’s “ The Last Question ”. Munic hurried along the dimly lit corridors of the C-wing of the Neutrino lab. It was past midnight, and he had received an alert on his phone sent by one of the monitoring terminals. His palms and brows were trickling sweat despite the unusually cold night. His off-white Oxford shirt was unevenly buttoned and lazily tucked in, but he didn’t seem to notice, or for tha..
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A sci-fi short story inspired by Isaac Asimov’s “ The Last Question ”. Munic hurried along the dimly lit corridors of the C-wing of the Neutrino lab. It was past midnight, and he had received an alert on his phone sent by one of the monitoring terminals. His palms and brows were trickling sweat despite the unusually cold night. His off-white Oxford shirt was unevenly buttoned and lazily tucked in, but he didn’t seem to notice, or for tha..
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Our Tumblr analytics product, Mountain Metrics, made it’s official launch at The Starter League Demo Day in Chicago Friday!
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So, I just bought “Seven Languages in Seven Weeks” . I’ve read the Ruby chapter, not a big deal at all, so I skipped it. I also skip Io, Prolog and Scala (for now), and then, fall in Erlang!
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This was a cool project I implemented Summer 2011, I can now talk about it, now that my customer has taken it online. Update: In the meantime it’s offline again :( Anyway, it looked like this: The requirements were thus: The task was to have a logo in the browser. The user should be able to alter the colors in various parts of the logo. The user should also be able to add gradients as opposed to just flat colors. ..
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A Go-Environment is a grouping of pipelines and agents. By assigning an agent to an environment, it will be used to run only those jobs that belong to the pipelines of that environment. An agent can belong to more than one environment but a pipeline can only belong to a single environment. Once an agent is associated with one or more environments, it is no longer capable of picking up jobs on pipelines that do not belong to environments. Pi..
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As part of our efforts to embody lean and agile principles, we always try to limit how much we’re working on at any given time. Working in small batches and employing WIP limits not only focuses our attention on what’s already underway, but also helps us break down, prioritize and rank upcoming work.
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A website I'm working on allows the user to choose passwords, and also can suggest passwords for the user. I'm fully in control of this program and its password generation and checking strategies, I started to think about what would make the best strategies. Here are some constraints which I’ve seen on various systems: Passwords must have at least one lower-case, one upper-case, one digit character Some passwords must also include..
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After a while using Jekyll Bootstrap , I just realized that it was so much bloated. Then, few days ago, I forked the old Zach Holman’s blog , and started to tweak my own theme based on theirs (that now is opensource ). At first, I like it, but after a while, I just start thinking that it had a “old style” design.
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Why is test automation the backbone of Continuous Delivery?
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www.thoughtworks.com
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13 years ago
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Software testing and verification needs a careful and diligent process of impersonating an end user, trying various usages and input scenarios, comparing and asserting expected behaviours. Directly, the words "careful and diligent" invoke the idea of letting a computer program do the job. Automating certain programmable aspects of your test suite thus can help software delivery massively. In most of the projects that I have worked on, there....
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So, I just compiled a little list of things that, I believe, make me dislike Java everyday a little more.
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When a software architect gets a good idea or learns something new, he has a problem. The main job of the architect is to ensure that the right information in present inside the heads of the people who should build the application. Every new piece of information in the architect’s head represents a broader gap between his brain and that of the rest of the team. The classical ways of adressing this gap is for the architect to write huge docu..
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As I wrote BuzzFeed, Meet The Oatmeal Tuesday night, I came across Shawn Blanc’s short post regarding Vemedio’s latest release in a bout of procrastination as I pursued Twitter. My excitement over a new major release of my favorite podcast client was tinged with confusion though as I attempted to update the app, and was instead presented with the option to purchase it once again. Curious, I began digging around until finally, after a ..
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Here on the Mingle team we use Mingle not only as a way to manage our day-to-day software delivery and development, but also as a tool for product management. We’d like to share with you some of the ways that we use Mingle to do that.
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Here is the full text of a recruiter email I received today. Dear Pete, Wouldn't it feel great to wake up each day knowing that you're part of a dynamic organization that's on the cutting edge of innovation web products? That’s what the team experiences and you could too! What you will find challenging about this job is to develop revolutionary and challenging web applications using object oriented javascript frameworks like backbone.j....
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Here is the full text of a recruiter email I received today. Dear Pete, Wouldn't it feel great to wake up each day knowing that you're part of a dynamic organization that's on the cutting edge of innovation web products? That’s what the team experiences and you could too! What you will find challenging about this job is to develop revolutionary and challenging web applications using object oriented javascript frameworks like backbone.j....
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In Java, there is the great SVNKit which I have used for many a customer project successfully. You can do all Subversion operations in a few lines of Java, with a great object-oriented interface, exceptions, and so on. It’s easy to use, and it just works. Today I had to produce certain XML files programmatically based on “svn info –xml” information. I was glad to see there was a SVNXMLInfoHandler which allows you to write the XML into..
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For the last few weeks we’ve been working on Mountain (Formerly Dashboardly), an analytics platform built specifically for Tumblr.
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Last night just before I went to bed I was scrolling through my Twitter stream — as you do — when I came across Jim Dalrymple’s post titled after a line from Mathew Inman’s article Dear Jack Stuef , “You bitter, uninspired, bottom-feeding ass” . All the more curious once I discovered Jim’s link was to an article written by one of my favorite webcomic authors, I spent the next half hour reading in varying degrees of disbelief and disappo..
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