Best Practices
Random thoughts about technical debt
September 1st, 2019
If you put ten developers in a room, you end up with ten views on technical debt - and just as many ways to deal with it.
Being a Star in Galaxy
April 12th, 2015
This article is about the Ansible Galaxy. It describes a few things best practices I discovered while trying to write my roles as flexible as possible.
On a scale of 1 to "on fire"
September 5th, 2014
In an attempt to become more effective in doing our jobs, we are adopting some of the agile methods. About eight months ago, we started doing standups. With varying success, I might add. One of the things we added to the regular standup questions is "how confident are you about the current sprint?". This article is about how not to answer the question.
Thoughts on deploying with Ansible
July 27th, 2014
In order to simplify our deployment procedure, we wrote a role in Ansible (we where using Capistrano before). The role is reasonably complete now and we've begun using it for projects in production. But during the creation there was a bit of discussion on certain points, and I'd like to share some of the insights we've had with you.
The Clean Coder book review
February 2nd, 2014
This book describes the career-long insights of Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob), on what it means to be a “professional programmer”. He digs into his own past to display it -warts and all- so that we may learn from it.