Archive for the 'software development' tag

Continuous Deployment

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I’ve been working lately trying to implement some of the things Eric Ries talks about. Primarily the idea of continuous …

EC2 Spot instances

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The thing I really like about Amazon’s cloud stuff is they’re constantly undermining themselves with new innovations – spot instances …

Useful commit messages

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I realised that I’m not very good at this when I looked at my last commit for this theme. The …

Stop asking questions.

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I’ve had an ongoing conversation with a few people over the course of a few projects about the questions to …

Open Source for Business

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I didn’t get this posted yesterday because the Internet crapped out in our area. Nothing but excuses, I know.
I’ve been …

Spartan Programming

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Jeff Atwood was pleased to find that his coding conventions, the ones we all settle into, have been tending towards …

Release early – Release often

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Agile methodologies have recently been getting something of a bad name, it’s not unwarranted but it is unfortunate. The problem …

Get your development under control – all about version control

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The key to any successful development team, far more than any other tool, is version control. No matter how many …

Minimum Stable Feature-set

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From time to time this blog will reflect a decision we take as a company, this is one of those …

Never rewrite your software

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All software is a work in progress none is ever perfect. It will always have bugs, sometimes it might even …

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