Attention: The following article was published over 10 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. Please keep that in mind as you read the post.My local development feedback loop between code change and runnable container was annoyingly long on a Maven-based project I was recently working on. I wanted to speed things up. CodeProject The scenario …
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Building Vagrant Boxes with VeeWee on TravisCI
Attention: The following article was published over 12 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. Please keep that in mind as you read the post.(Pro Tip: you can safely skip the first 3 paragraphs) We’ve all been there: You push some .travis.yml commits and your clone gets parachuted into VM Land – only to find that things …
The Secret to a Good Monday Morning
Attention: The following article was published over 13 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. Please keep that in mind as you read the post. The secret to a good Monday morning is hidden somewhere in this page. Did you figure out the secret message? Hint: These aren’t pinball rules – it’s OK to tilt the …
KC User Group Tour, Part 4: Rubyists
Attention: The following article was published over 13 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. Please keep that in mind as you read the post.Trying to unwind the onion now, peeling away until I get back to the February Ruby meetup. I got more than a little side-tracked, but I learned a lot along the way. …
KC User Group Tour, Part 3: Pythonistas
Attention: The following article was published over 13 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. Please keep that in mind as you read the post.And now for something completely different… Me: What is the first thing I need to know about Python? Pythonista: Ok, first, open a command line… Me: Alright, I’m ready… Pythonista: Now start Python… …