Month: December 2019
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Branching 0 – Git 1
My recent tirade against unnecessary branching – “Git is Not the Problem” – might have given the impression that I don’t appreciate the power that git provides. That’s not true and hopefully the following example highlights the appreciation I have for …
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Branching 0 – Git 1
My recent tirade against unnecessary branching – “Git is Not the Problem” – might have given the impression that I don’t appreciate the power that git provides. That’s not true and hopefully the following example highlights the appreciation I have for …
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Git is Not the Problem
Git comes in for a lot of stick for being a complicated tool that’s hard to learn, and they’re right, git is a complicated tool. But it’s a tool designed to solve a difficult problem – many disparate people collaborating on a single product in a totall…
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Git is Not the Problem
Git comes in for a lot of stick for being a complicated tool that’s hard to learn, and they’re right, git is a complicated tool. But it’s a tool designed to solve a difficult problem – many disparate people collaborating on a single product in a totall…
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Choosing “a” Database, not “the” Database
One thing I’ve run across a few times over the years is the notion that an application or system has one, and only one, database product. It’s as if the answer to the question about where we should store our data must be about where we store “all” our …
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Choosing “a” Database, not “the” Database
One thing I’ve run across a few times over the years is the notion that an application or system has one, and only one, database product. It’s as if the answer to the question about where we should store our data must be about where we store “all” our …
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Automating Windows VM Creation on Ubuntu
TL;DR you can find my resulting Oz and Packer configuration files in this Oz gist and this Packer gist on my GitHub account.As someone who has worked almost exclusively on Windows for the last 25 years I was somewhat surprised to find myself needing to…
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Automating Windows VM Creation on Ubuntu
TL;DR you can find my resulting Oz and Packer configuration files in this Oz gist and this Packer gist on my GitHub account.As someone who has worked almost exclusively on Windows for the last 25 years I was somewhat surprised to find myself needing to…