This is essentially a test post for asciidoc, wordpress, and blogpost.py I’ve been reading more about asciidoc, and I’ve found that there’s a cool Python script for posting asciidoc files to WordPress as new blog posts. It’s called blogpost, creatively, and you can find it on the Author’s blog. The script dates back to 2008, … Continue reading
Author Archives: Kyle Hodgson
ThoughtWorks Technology Radar
ThoughtWorks has finally published a new Tech Radar! Interesting notes: Jasmine + Node.JS in adopt Zipkin in assess Scala and Clojure both in adopt Angular and Knockout in trial Though, the TAG wasn’t so kind to all of our favorite JavaScript frameworks… check the links to find out more! http://www.thoughtworks.com/radar Tech Radar: PDF Version Tech … Continue reading
How to Avoid Problems with the StranglerApplication Pattern
Recently I noticed a question on StackOverflow that seemed to indicate that a project had encountered problems with the Strangler Application pattern. The basic premise behind the strangler is really great: instead of trying to do a “big bang” style all at once replacement of a legacy system, you instead build a strangler application by making … Continue reading
Easy Publishing With Git
A colleague of mine showed me something really cool: a toolchain that helps different people work together on a project involving documentation. With one simple command, the content can be rendered in to a website. As a nice bonus, the site will not only have a table of contents and contain the content you wrote … Continue reading
Getting Started With Scala: Part Two
* This article is part two in a series on setting up Scala for use with IntelliJ Adding Classes and Tests Now that we’ve got the project created, a working build system, and test packages installed, it’s time to get started writing some code. First, let’s create a package called org.awesome under src/main/scala. Then we’ll … Continue reading
Getting Started with Scala
We’re going to put together a working Scala system on MacOS. We’re going to need a few things: SBT – this is our build system and dependency management IntelliJ – our IDE Scala A few Scala plugins that we’ll pull in via SBT: FunSuite – our testing system gen-idea – a system to generate IntelliJ … Continue reading
Software Development on the iPad
So apparently, a fellow Throne of JS conference attendee snapped this pic of me using DietCoda to hack on some Ruby between presentations. First person I’ve ever seen coding on an iPad. #throneofjs pic.twitter.com/JkDRgOHD – @lof Apparently, this is not yet that common. What editor shall I try next? I’m considering Textastic. RWW has a write … Continue reading
Software Development on your iPad?
So I was at the Skydome ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Roger’s Center with my good friend John Bender today when the subject of laptop woes came up. As I mentioned to him over an $11 beer in the hot sun while the Blue Jay’s played on, I was torn between spending around $500 on a Lenovo Ultrabook (the … Continue reading
Four Steps to Keep Windows 8 From Sucking
Four Steps to Keep Windows 8 From Sucking Writing apps for Windows 8 should be simple. When I say that, I mean that I expect them to run on the phone and on the tablet and on the PC, similarly to the way that I can target PhoneGap and get both iPhone and iPad – or … Continue reading
Who should be the architect in an agile project?
I came across this question on Programmers.Stackexchange.com today: We are developing the agile way for a few months now and I have some troubles understanding the agile manifesto as interpreted by my colleagues. The project we are developing is a framework for future projects and will be reused many times in the next years. Code … Continue reading
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