Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
I'm continuing my winning streak of publishing a blog post once every 5 months, and what better reason than to rant about something? I feel slightly conflicted about this one but at the same time I'm annoyed enough to write this... anyway, enjoy.
Email is an annoying domain of the internet. It features heavily on my list of things I don't want to be responsible for anymore, in addition to DNS, BGP…
I gave yet another permutation of my talk about DevOps in Big Enterprise tonight at the Berlin DevOps meetup. I last gave it as a 45 minute presentation at the VelocityConf BoF and prior to that as a 5 minute Ignite talk at DevOpsDays Göteborg. This time I'm actually uploading the slides (although they are fairly minimalistic).
Today at DevOpsDays Göteborg we rounded out the day's events with an Open Space session on Cool Tools. Basically I wanted to have a session where as experts in our field we can suggest life-saving, life-changing or just handy tools we use from day to day that others may not be aware of. Each person got up, said some small amount about the tool in question and wrote it on the board. In the end we…
Tom Limoncelli just released his own version of The Joel Test - except his one is for sysadmins. I was only vaguely aware of Joel Spolsky's test and only just read through it and rated my current team, and I'm glad to say we are just about at twelve for twelve. It hasn't really been on my radar until now as this is the first time I can actually say I've been on a development team. Given all the…