May, 2013


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May 13

Does Your Entire Team Have to Git It?

For episode 20, we tackle the topic of tooling proficiency on your release engineering, ops, and development teams, specifically through the lens of version control tools. Version control is becoming a ubiquitous part of the “DevOps movement,” and we talk through what level of understanding should be expected, what level of training should be provided, and whether those are different for different teams or different tools. Plus, we poke a lil’ fun at git, as we try to answer:

Does Your Entire Team Have to Git It?

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, Sascha Bates, aka @sascha_d, and EJ Ciramella, aka @eciramella, plus the last couple of weeks in News & Views and a new Tool Tip!

Or, download Episode 20, or any of our previous shows!

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Tool Tip

Youssuf introduces us to tig, an ncurses-frontend for git, similar to gitk, but great for machines where you don’t have Tcl or X!


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Do you run into lack-of-proficiency with version control or other tools with teammates? Does it slow your team down? Is there a point in having “integration engineers” or “tool/language lawyers” anymore?

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May 13

ChefConf 2013 Revue

It’s that time of year again where chefs (and sous-chefs!) come together to talk all-things Chef! This year’s ChefConf took place last week in San Francisco, and the crew of the Ship Show attended to experience it all first hand. We took in the sights and sounds of the workshops and presentations, as well as the all-important hallway track! We join forces with the cast of Chef community’s premier podcast, the Food Fight Show—”Where chefs do battle!”—for a:

ChefConf 2013 Revue

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, Sascha Bates, aka @sascha_d, and Seth Thomas, aka @cheeseplus, plus the last couple of weeks in News & Views and some conference word games!

Or, download Episode 19, or any of our previous shows!

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Roaming ChefConf Word Association Game

We asked a number of ChefConf attendees to blurt out the first word that came into their head when prompted by a number of words relevant to our industry.

See what they had to say!

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Did you attend ChefConf? Watch the live stream? Or look at the videos posted online?

What do you think 2013 has for Chef and its community?

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