Lean Startup Stage At SXSW
This morning we had the pleasure to present at the Lean Startup Stage at SXSW. We presented our case study on lessons learned in Agile, continuous deployment and creating high performing teams. Wouldn’t you love to build and deploy your software at impressive speed? We’ve just heard Eric speaking about maximizing the time through the… Read more
Taking corrective action with git’s commit hooks
Like many teams we use a Subversion pre-commit hook to perform simple validation on code we’re about to commit. When we commit to our front-end repository, for example, the hook verifies that lines don’t have trailing whitespace and that all text files end with a newline character. Unfortunately, when a SVN pre-commit hook fails, the… Read more
See us at Cloud Connect 2011 – Workshop on Continuous Delivery
Next Monday, March 7th, I’ll be presenting our architecture at Cloud Connect. The talk will be part of the workshop on cloudy operations organized by John Willis. This one day tutorial focuses on IT operations and automation in an environment that uses Cloud Computing. Coverage of standard IT operational disciplines, such as, monitoring, configuration management,… Read more
What’s your stock portfolio return?
Consider the following scenario: you invest your money starting with $100K in a brokerage account, and buy some AAPL shares at $200. Then you transfer $5K more into the account and buy some AMZN shares at $120. Later on you sell your APPL shares when it reaches $300. In the end you transfer $10K out… Read more
Protobufs backward and forward
Protobufs are designed to support forward and backward compatibility, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get it wrong. One issue we ran into recently involved adding a new value to an enum. The protobuf code “worked” in the sense that it did not blow up, but our code that used the data failed. Since at… Read more
Born Small… Now Huge… Winning… Bring it..!
Made a wallpaper in honor of my new favorite tweeter… Charlie Sheen. Hope you guys like it. Winning!