October, 2012


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Oct 12

Challenges Faced by the Enterprise Git Architect

In our last single-digit episode, we sit down with Perforce’s Director of Product Technology, James Creasy, to discuss the issues faced by enterprises attempting to deploy git and the general challenges of using git in environments where its trackrecord isn’t as established. Join us for our discussion on:

Challenges Faced by the Enterprise Git Architect

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, Sascha Bates, aka @sascha_d and Seth Thomas, aka @cheeseplus for the discussion, plus the last couple of weeks in News & Views and an introduction to a screen-replacement in Tool Tips!

Or, download Episode 9, or any of our previous shows!

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Oct 12

Rolling Your Own

Episode 8 brings crisp fall weather (“summer” in San Francisco), and a discussion on rolling your own: your own tool, your own Jenkins or Maven plugin, your own whatever. We take a closer look at some of the costs associated with doing so and some of the aspects to think about when trying to decide whether to hack on (and join) the open source community around a particular tool, or buck up and write it yourself. When exactly is the best decision:

Rolling Your Own

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, EJ Ciramella, aka @eciramella, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, and Sascha Bates, aka @sascha_d for the discussion, plus the last couple of weeks in News & Views and a review of the recent Jenkins User Conference.

Or, download Episode 8, or any of our previous shows!

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Review

EJ tells us all about his experience at the recent Jenkins User Conference in San Francisco, including a coverage of the most important aspect of the conference: the food!


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Has “rolling your own” sometimes been a nightmare, sometimes a nightmare? Never a nightmare? Are there “happy ever after” roll-your-own stories?

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Oct 12

Bootstrapping Your Developer Environments

For Episode 7, we examine the issue of bootstrapping developer work environments. Can the configuration management and automation tools we all know and love be used to get setup developer workstations and get your new-hires writing, building, and shipping code more quickly? And is that even something DevOps and release engineers should be responsible for? Join as we examine strategies for:

Bootstrapping Your Developer Environments

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, EJ Ciramella, aka @eciramella, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, Seth Thomas, aka @cheeseplus, and Sascha Bates, aka @sascha_d for techniques on improving initial developer productivity, plus coverage of the last couple of weeks in News & Views and a new segment: The Comment Block.

Or, download Episode 7, or any of our previous shows!

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Review

Paul waxes philosophic on Sascha’s Learning to Let Go (or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb), and argues that in the end: we’re all practicing therapists.


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How do you deploy environments to your developers? What tricks do you use to make it faster, repeatable, and your teams more productive?

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