So all the cool Clojure kids keep wanting me to use Emacs. The problem is that I haven’t used Emacs for the last 10 years – since, in fact, I had to support a C application on about 7 different flavours of UNIX. As you can imagine, I’ve since expunged many of those past memories. My [...]

So all the cool Clojure kids keep wanting me to use Emacs. The problem is that I haven’t used Emacs for the last 10 years – since, in fact, I had to support a C application on about 7 different flavours of UNIX. As you can imagine, I’ve since expunged many of those past memories. My [...]

The Checkin Gate defines a set of tests which need to pass before a developer checks in. Typically, the tests are a subset of the total test suite – selected to provide a good level of coverage, whilst running in a short space of time. There is an inherent trade-off with a Checkin Gate though – [...]

The Checkin Gate defines a set of tests which need to pass before a developer checks in. Typically, the tests are a subset of the total test suite – selected to provide a good level of coverage, whilst running in a short space of time. There is an inherent trade-off with a Checkin Gate though – [...]

I’m currently working on a personal project by way of learning Clojure – it’s actually a program to match up my itemised phone bill against my list of contacts to help me expense my calls. I find it best to have a real-world problem I need to solve to learn a new programming language. The [...]

I’m currently working on a personal project by way of learning Clojure – it’s actually a program to match up my itemised phone bill against my list of contacts to help me expense my calls. I find it best to have a real-world problem I need to solve to learn a new programming language. The [...]

There is a rustle in the posit-in notes. The water cooler ripples. USB-powered missile launchers inexplicably fire, whilst nerf guns jam mid-battle. There is the smell of sulfur in the air. The Great Rewrite Approaches. The signs were there. Grumbling from the developers – sometimes new to the project. “This code is...

There is a rustle in the posit-in notes. The water cooler ripples. USB-powered missile launchers inexplicably fire, whilst nerf guns jam mid-battle. There is the smell of sulfur in the air. The Great Rewrite Approaches. The signs were there. Grumbling from the developers – sometimes new to the project. “This code is...

Recently, both Paul Julias and Chris Read pointed out that I was perhaps the first person to document the concept of build pipelines, at least in terms of how it relates to continuous integration and the like. As it turns out, the original posts on the subject are from further back than I remember: An Introduction [...]

Recently, both Paul Julias and Chris Read pointed out that I was perhaps the first person to document the concept of build pipelines, at least in terms of how it relates to continuous integration and the like. As it turns out, the original posts on the subject are from further back than I remember: An Introduction [...]

I always had this blog to write, not to run a blog. I’ve written less and less over the last couple of years and part of this is down to the overhead of maintaining wordpress. My plan is to switch to a clean, hosted solution – and Tumblr is looking like what I want. I [...]

I always had this blog to write, not to run a blog. I’ve written less and less over the last couple of years and part of this is down to the overhead of maintaining wordpress. My plan is to switch to a clean, hosted solution – and Tumblr is looking like what I want. I [...]

I knocked this up to help testing on something I’ve been working on in my spare time. It would be a trivial exercise to extend this to build pages for specific URLs – this example returns the same markup for any example. The old codehaus site for Jetty contain lots of examples of how to [...]

I knocked this up to help testing on something I’ve been working on in my spare time. It would be a trivial exercise to extend this to build pages for specific URLs – this example returns the same markup for any example. The old codehaus site for Jetty contain lots of examples of how to [...]

It just threw up this playlist for me on the iPhone – it seems my own personal DJ has finally arrived: Beast Of Burden – Rolling Stones Idioteque – Radiohead (live) Born Under A Bad Sign – Jimi Hendrix I Got Mine – The Black Keys It’s Hard To Be a Saint In the City – Bruce Springsteen & The [...]