You Might Be Better Off Without Pull Requests
Feature branches and mandatory pull requests have become a standard for a lot of modern software development teams. How did we get here? And does this really make sense?
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Posts Tagged With #programming
Book Review: “Tidy First?”
My review of Kent Beck's “Tidy First?”, a short book on the "what", "when", and "why" of tidying code.
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Path to Production Mapping
Here's one from the consulting toolbox. Path to Production Mapping is a simple and effective tool that can help you understand, discuss, analyze, and improve how your team ships software to production. In this post I explain what it's all about and how you can use it.
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Book Review: “Learning Test-Driven Development”
A book review for Saleem Siddiqui's “Learning Test-Driven Development”. I think it's a great book and a modern take of Kent Beck's "TDD By Example".
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Doppelkopf — 3 Years Later
3 years ago I started building a browser-based Doppelkopf card game as a pet project. Things have been quiet. Did I give up? Hit a roadblock? Nuke the git repo?
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Using 'make' to Make Your Code Easy to Work With
With 'make' we can automate common tasks for our programming projects and make them easier to work with as a result.
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Testing Ansible Provisioning Locally
Learn how to test Ansible provisioning scripts locally
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A "Doppelkopf" Browser Game
I started implementing a browser game version of the German "Doppelkopf" card game and it's great fun. Read why I started doing this and what I've discovered so far.
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E-book Release of Testing Microservices
Yeah, the "testing microservices" post series got a little out of hand. If you prefer ebooks over blog posts I've got your back. I released the "testing microservices" series as an ebook.
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Testing Microservices - Java & Spring Boot
Learn how to test your Java & Spring Boot microservice, based on the "Testing Microservices" article
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Testing Microservices
Learn the concepts you need to build a reliable, fast and effective test suite for your microservices
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Remote Pair Programming With SSH & tmux
For many developers pair programming is the way to go. But pairing often becomes challenging as soon as people are working remotely. With a simple SSH and tmux setup you can have a very simple but effective setup for collaborating remotely using nothing but your command line.
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Import your DKB account into Homebank
Homebank is a great and free personal finance tool. I have written a small converter that allows you to import account data from DKB accounts.
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