I recently read Deep Work by Cal Newport about the importance of focus for knowledge work. It’s a very compelling read and provides plenty of…
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Running an encapsulated build on Jenkins using Conveyor
For previous entries in this series see: 1 – Breaking Down Barriers2 – Pipelines as code…not text3 – Pipelines as code (part 2)…the API The…
This is a continuation of Pipelines as code…not text There’s an art to writing frameworks: you have to balance helpfulness with flexibility. I recently wrote…
This is a follow on to my post on pipelines in Breaking down barriers It also bugs me that the pipelines can only really run…
I got a great tip for stand-up meetings from my friend Darryn. He was a QA on my team at the time but secretly moonlighting…
The field of “Artificial Intelligence” has a long history of over-promising and under-delivering. Each cycle of the marketing hype tweaks the name a little while…
I saw a talk by Dave Farley a while ago in which he said that everything should be under source control. It makes sense; with…
I was thinking about a loose curriculum the other day for my own mentee and started putting together a list of areas to cover. They’re…