There is a tendency among engineers to disparage the tools of other engineers. So, developers don't like to develop tests with gui based tools for example. Sometimes a tool is indeed not worthy an engineers attention, for example a 'Golf-Ware' tool. These are tools that management learned about during a round of golf …

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Having worked in the field today called DevOps since around 2003, I've noticed that we more or less do the same thing regardless of what its currently called. When it works well anyway. This is how I see it; Continuous Delivery emphasizes the payoff in the end, the increased business value of having good value adding …

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I'm interested in the concepts of transhumanism and the singularity. Quite often I feel like the concepts take on a needless religious aspect; wait for the Singularity, then Nerd Rapture will follow. It is appealing in a way, but also kind of dumb, especially for a crowd that often prides themselves in being …

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In the Java enterprise world we have application servers that we deploy our applications into. An ear file is just a zip file with some metadata. its not a bad thing as such. The problematic situation occurs when we deploy our ears to our appservers. Teams start thinking that this is an unheard of problem, and invent …

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There are some misconceptions about the Emacs Xwidget branch, and some people are just scratching their heads wondering what the branch is for. For me it is easier to answer these questions by regaling you with the very interesting origin story of the Xwidget branch! I like making music and art in my spare time. I …

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I'm fairly new to 3D printing, and in the process of learning I experienced a number of mistakes. Mistakes are of course splendid for learning things! Not aligning the print bed Not aligning the print bed properly was my first and worst mistake. First I made a small print and it printed okay. Satisfied, I uploaded a …

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zen-reward-mode is a simple gamification of emacs. The idea of gamification is explained at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamification The rules of the game are: Typing a character in a buffer gives you one zen reward point, ZRP for short. Closing an org mode TODO item gives you 1000 ZRP! Doing something silly like …

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So you are coding away at your product, and its done entirely by the book. You have builders, immutable data transfer objects, a layered architecture and whatnot. Suddenly the deadline makes a whooshing sound as it flys by, to paraphrase Douglas Adams. But you are safe, because you have a by the book aproach, and you …

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A couple of years ago I bought a server rack cabinet to have at home in my apartment. The idea was that the rack would help me get rid of the mess of cables and unsound open server chassis I had at the time. I bought the rack and learned a lot about how to build server racks. It didn't solve any of my problems though. …

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The Emacs news-reader Gnus, is the interface I use to read most of my feeds. Since I use it for mail, news, rss and more, theres a lot of groups in my Gnus. (Okay, if you don't know Gnus this doesnt make much sense.) Only list Gnus groups with unread messages because I have so many marks and so many groups now. you …

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