To get into the holiday spirit, the Crew looks at the various programming languages used in the release engineering and DevOps space: is there a language that “binds it all together?” If so, what language holds that title, and why? Is that language shifting? And if so, what’s the driving force behind the shift? Join us as we look over the menu of:
Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, Seth Thomas, aka @cheeseplus, and EJ Ciramella, aka @eciramella for the discussion, plus the last couple of weeks in News & Views and a new Tooltip!
Or, download Episode 11, or any of our previous shows!
Show Links/Notes
- 1:34 – News & Views
- 1:39 – “Weird” NTP bug rekindles Y2K problems
- 4:53 – Mozilla stops building Firefox 64-bit Windows builds
- 5:41 – Two Win64 crash reports website bugs: bug 811051, bug 611331 (crashreports in the client are supported?)
- 8:05 – The moz.dev.apps.firefox newsgroup announcement; the subsequent bug
- 9:59 – Father flips all of the pronouns in Zelda, to play it with his daughter
- 11:49 – Carmageddon!
- 12:46 – Main Segment: Langauges Du Jour
- 25:28 – Mark Burgess on domain-specific languages
- 25:50 – @garybernhardt‘s Wat?!
- 22:08 – Pester: A testing framework in PowerShell
- 45:03 – Food Critic for your Chef cookbooks
- 50:51 – Tool Tip
Tool Tips
Paul discusses the Fuse plugin SSHFS, why it’s super-useful and when not to use it.
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