VMware’s Developer Play
The change in marketing leadership at VMware indicates that the company has had enough of trying to convince developers to get interested in infrastructure and wants to try a different approach. Read More
Tag: automation
On Automation and Autonomy
Justin muses on the difference between automatic and autonomous. Read More
On Signal and Noise
Penelope* (not her real name) is an Instagram influencer. Companies sometimes pay her, in cash or in kind, to promote their products, hoping she will somehow influence those who follow her online into buying their products. How do companies decide Penelope is worth courting? Her follower count. There’s just one problem: it’s… Read More
ModiPy 1.2.1 released
I’ve fixed a bug in version 1.2 of ModiPy relating to namespaces within iterators. I hit the bug while provisioning 3 clustered NetApp simulators in my lab. Sorry about that. I should have caught it during testing. Still, catch it I did, so now things are really working quite nicely… Read More
How to do design automation: DocGen concept diagram
I’m a bit of a documentation nerd. Writing technical documentation is a boring, but often necessary, job that other people hate doing. I’m good at it. I also care about it, for some unfathomable reason. This combination means that I’m usually the guy who ends up doing it. Now I… Read More
ModiPy update: Automated NetApp simulator installation
Just a quick note to let you know about something I worked on a bit this past weekend. I’ve been adding a bunch of test cases to ModiPy to make the code quality better, and to chase down some corner cases that were really annoying me. I’m pleased to say… Read More
DocGen on the Interwebs
I’ve just updated the wiki for DocGen, my design automation system. There’s not much content there, but there’s now some, so enjoy. DocGen was originally created after I finished a gig for a particular client. Once again, I’d set up some documentation templates in MSWord with some consistent styles, layout,… Read More
The 1 Habit of Great Programmers
There’s one surefire way to determine if someone is a great programmer, or if they are merely good: their attitude towards automated testing. In fact, their attitude towards testing will tell you a lot about their attitude towards programming, design, project planning, almost every other aspect of a technical project.… Read More