Service IoC containers
How can we get the benefits of IoC containers at a higher level - the services that we deploy into environments? Typical service tiers are implemented with a fronting load balancer that allocates …
Essays and write-ups. Release notes for each tool are in Release notes; posts grouped by tool are under Projects.
Team Distribution Models and Conways Law
If Conway’s law applies the how we set up and organise teams should either be aligned to the architecture of the applicaiton or system being developed or application/system architecture will shift to …
lazybuilder v0.3
The idea for lazybuilder came up during a recent coding dojo doing code kata. We were using Vim and a separate terminal to run the tests. Switching back and forth between two windows when trying to …
CODE keyboard
After a long wait CODE keyboards are available again and I received mine last night. I have to confess that I am a bit of a keyboard junkie. I am reluctant to count them all but I am edging into …
Cling A C++ REPL?!
Browsing some blogs recently I came across some interesting C++11 lambda code and thought it would be cool to try it out for myself. The idea of spinning up a project or even putting a new test in an …
Boost program_options
I have been spending time recently writing command line apps in C++11. Each time I wanted a way of handling command line arguments flexibly. I chose to use the boost::program_options library. The …
Java build tools 2013
I am about to embark on a new Java project so I thought I would take a look at the current state of build tools for Java projects. First I thought I would draw up some assessment criteria to use as a …
ci console 0.0.2 released
I like to commit code frequently when working on a project. I also like to use the command line for building, testing and committing code. So I thought it would be nice to have a way to check the …
Zero Down-time - relational databases
Continuous Deployment is the act of automatically deploying an application every time the build is successful. I am currently working with a development team that is working towards continuous …
word-finder
Following up on the [next_permutation]({% post_url 2013-08-03-next_permutation %}) from a couple of weeks ago word finder uses next_permutation to find words in character sequences. Uses the aspell C …