Continuous Deployment: A Lesson in Masochism I’ve determined over the past few weeks that the statement “deployment is hard” should be the nominated as the understatement of the century. I’ve spent a large number of hours over the preceding weeks getting our continuous deployment setup at Kevy functional. We actually started out pretty simple by implementing a basic deployment of master as it passed unit tests. Then we decided to get ambitious and implement something similar to the GitHub deployment process using our Hubot, Siri. Posted by Matt Farmer on December 12, 2012 · 11 mins read
An Engineer's Sense of Humor Want to know what makes Software Engineers laugh? Posted by Matt Farmer on November 21, 2012 · 1 min read
PaaS isn't the end-all-to-be-all. I ran across this article while browsing on Hacker News that’s suggests the following idea for webapp development: “If you’re not building a PaaS, you should deploy on a PaaS.” Posted by Matt Farmer on November 19, 2012 · 4 mins read
Cutting My Teeth on the Gemstone After living in a type-safe world for the last year, it’s strange to come back to languages like Ruby that are duck typed and then try to be productive. So many safety nets that you can take for granted in a type-strong language just aren’t there – and it’s considered a feature of the language. While I will admit that the immediate benefit to my battery life I enjoy by not running the Scala compiler constantly is nice, Ruby – in all it’s duck-like goodness – is still going to take a good bit of getting used to. It’s going to take a lot of hammering against brick walls of the language to get to where my preferred design patterns are first nature. Today was an exercise in that. Posted by Matt Farmer on November 17, 2012 · 8 mins read
Tweetbot, and Why My Days on Twitter are Numbered Today, I purchased Tweetbot for Mac. I paid $20 for this piece of software that will do nothing but serve as a avenue for me to tweet my thoughts for the days that I remain on Twitter – and those days are numbered. Posted by Matt Farmer on October 19, 2012 · 8 mins read