The other day we had problems with a service dying. It ran out of memory, crashing and failing to respond to all open requests. That service was running analyses of repositories, digging through their files to report on the condition of the code. It ran out of memory trying to analyze a particular large repository … Read moreDon’t just keep trying; report your limits
We can develop things faster than we can define them. @jryanday I’ve remarked before that @cdupuis can implement new features way faster than I can document them. This is not ridiculous; creating something is often faster than connecting it to existing people who can use it. Ryan took this farther: we can’t even define what … Read moreDesign by implementation
Yesterday I was ready to get some changes into master, so I merged in the latest and opened a PR. But NO, the build on my pull request broke.The error was: ERROR: (jsdoc-format) /long/path/to/file.ts[52, 1]: asterisks in jsdoc must be alignedERROR: (jsdoc-format) /long/path/to/file.ts[53, 1]: asterisks in jsdoc must be alignedERROR: (jsdoc-format) /long/path/to/file.ts[54, 1]: asterisks in … Read moreAlign the stars (programmatically)
Philly ETE has published my video on InfoQ! This is about development automation: why it’s a great idea, why we should do more of it, and how Atomist is enabling it. There is live coding, there is me getting excited, and there is an awesome sparkly dinosaur shirt. I love this shirt. I also love … Read moreVideo: Automating at a Higher Level with Atomist
These days I work on Rug, Atomist’s library for coding code modifications. Adding a feature, I start by creating a test. While it’s tempting to create a narrow test around the piece of code I want to change, it’s better to create an API-level test. Testing at the outside has a few benefits: it tells … Read morea Rug story: adding test cases
Today’s Rug: maven executable jar this is supposed to be a rug with a jar on it. An active jar. I like being a polyglot developer, even though it’s painful sometimes. I use lots of languages, and in every one I have to look stuff up. That costs me time and concentration. Yesterday I wanted to … Read moreToday’s Rug: maven executable jar
I’m hella excited to get to work on Atomist full-time starting now (January 2017). Why? What do they do? Oh let me tell you! I love developing software, not least because we (as an industry) have not yet figured out how to software. We know it’s powerful, but not yet how powerful. Software is like … Read moreIt’s Atomist Time!