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Build Conventions With Ruby

Build Conventions With Ruby

Posted on 20. Jan, 2010 by Rob.

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One thing that really tired me in the past with build scripts was repetition. I may have several apps each with their own build script and for each one I would have to specify to compile it, tokenise any configs for other environments, run the unit test projects and code coverage, generate the same directories [...]

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Learning Lean From Films

Learning Lean From Films

Posted on 13. Oct, 2009 by Rob.

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I’m still in the learning phase of Lean and Kanban. I guess I know a lot more in theory than in practice as my experience is limited. However, I have started notice Lean applied in places that I didn’t before, which personally, I find encouraging (and sort of exciting, is that a bit geeky?). I [...]

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Building .Net apps with Ruby

Building .Net apps with Ruby

Posted on 06. Oct, 2009 by Rob.

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I haven’t blogged for a while about our build environment as I’ve been busy, firstly playing around with and integrating TeamCity as part of Continuous Integration (I won’t go into detail about TeamCity apart from say that it’s excellent, and we’ll be migrating across all of our build projects from CruiseControl.Net to TeamCity). And secondly, [...]

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Scrum, lean and everything inbetween

Scrum, lean and everything inbetween

Posted on 31. Jul, 2009 by Rob.

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My recent post about Agile raised a few question and comments. Two people suggested Lean as something for us to look at, and there were a few suggestions and thoughts around my ideas. So I thought I’d go over Lean, how we currently work, and also clarify the points in my last post in a [...]

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Developer thoughts on Agile process, cost and value

Developer thoughts on Agile process, cost and value

Posted on 24. Jul, 2009 by Rob.

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I’ve recently been questioning a lot of things about Agile development and how we do it. But beyond more than just a development perspective as it affects the entire business. Are we doing it as best we can? Why can we never achieve the perfect agile set up? I’m not talking about dropping Agile in [...]

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Making a greener developer

Making a greener developer

Posted on 17. Jun, 2009 by Rob.

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I often wonder, if I eventually have my own start up, what would it be like? Well amidst all the beans bags, laptops, bikes, and working in the sun, one of my big things is being efficient. Not only in a work sense but in a energy/green sense too. It’s always amazed me at previous [...]

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Don’t Go Breaking My Build

Don’t Go Breaking My Build

Posted on 03. Jun, 2009 by Rob.

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In development it’s quite often that someone will commit something bad to source control, and as a consequence everyone else will “pull” the bad changes and have the infected code on their machines too.  Before you know it, the bad code has spread to most developer pc’s and development grinds to a halt. It’s a [...]

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Speeding up the build

Speeding up the build

Posted on 20. May, 2009 by Rob.

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As a developer I hate having to wait around for my pc to finish doing something. Whether it be something opening (Visual Studio), getting the latest svn updates (and it locking up my browser!?), and especially waiting for my code to build (locally, or via CruiseControl). Obviously, the simplest solution is to throw more money [...]

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Making a better developer

Posted on 06. Apr, 2009 by Rob.

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I’ve been at Huddle for a year now, and since joining I’ve not only dramatically increased my learning curve, but I’ve become a much better all round developer, and so has everyone else in the team. So how does Huddle vary from other jobs I’ve had, and what are we doing differently? Here are a [...]

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