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Source Control

January 19^th, 2020 » VCS Nirvana
August 2^nd, 2019 » Pull-Request dissatisfaction
July 21^st, 2019 » Using Git In Business And Government
June 27^th, 2019 » Merkle Trees Underpinning Civilization Going Forward
June 14^th, 2019 » Merkle Trees and Source Control
June 11^th, 2019 » Monorepos vs Megarepos
June 18^th, 2016 » Subversion Merge Limitations That Are Not In Fossil
December 15^th, 2015 » Branches should be for change of policy on the same source
October 5^th, 2015 » Subversion Merge Limitations That Are Not In Perforce
September 29^th, 2015 » Subversion Merge Limitations That Are Not In Mercurial
September 27^th, 2015 » Subversion Merge Limitations That Are Not In Git
September 25^th, 2015 » Subversion Merge Limitations
September 20^th, 2015 » Extracting Subversion Branch Mappings
August 11^th, 2015 » Source-Control that explicitly understands refactorings
August 10^th, 2015 » Git becomes version-control's lingua franca wire protocol
July 30^th, 2015 » Git storing unzipped office docs
May 2^nd, 2015 » Scraping Leankit for analytics and pretty urls
February 14^th, 2015 » I wish Subversion had a query language
February 14^th, 2015 » Bash script to convert Subversion to Git
December 8^th, 2014 » The rise of version control
November 13^th, 2014 » Code Review - the unit of work should be a single commit
November 12^th, 2014 » The Config Promotion Problem
October 28^th, 2014 » Corporate File Sync: Agony and Ecstasy
October 20^th, 2014 » Checking in binaries
August 27^th, 2014 » Provisioning, Deployment and Application Config Cycles
August 12^th, 2014 » Trunk supporting practices
July 30^th, 2014 » GeoJSON mashups and GitHub
February 15^th, 2014 » Application Architecture in the CD Era for Pro-Services teams
February 3^rd, 2014 » Facebook Scaling Mercurial for Trunk-Based Development
January 10^th, 2014 » Non-Continuous Reviews
January 8^th, 2014 » Google's vs Facebook's Trunk-Based Development
January 8^th, 2014 » Git's Lightweight Merging
January 6^th, 2014 » Googlers Subset their Trunk
December 8^th, 2013 » Continuous Review (con't)
December 5^th, 2013 » Continuous Review
December 4^th, 2013 » What is Your Branching Model?
November 20^th, 2013 » Source Control is your new DR
November 19^th, 2013 » Elastic Environments in Source-Control with Ansible
August 1^st, 2013 » Elastic Provisioning of New Environments
April 29^th, 2013 » Open Data backed by Source-Control
April 9^th, 2013 » Scaling Trunk-Based Development
April 5^th, 2013 » What is Trunk-Based Development?
April 2^nd, 2013 » Maintained Divergence
March 19^th, 2013 » The Cost of Unmerge
March 15^th, 2013 » Article Syndication on GitHub via Subversion
March 13^th, 2013 » Facebook's Trunk-Based Development (take 2)
March 11^th, 2013 » Legacy App Rejuvenation
March 4^th, 2013 » Trunk-Based Development at Facebook
February 14^th, 2013 » Features I would love source control tools to have
January 29^th, 2013 » Content Syndication using Source Control
January 8^th, 2013 » Perforce as a datastore, with Client-Side MVC
January 2^nd, 2013 » GitHub Pages as a CMS again
December 22^nd, 2012 » SCM and Key-Value (Document) Store Convergence
December 5^th, 2012 » Push or pull of config changes for a production stack
August 14^th, 2012 » App Config using Git and Angular
August 10^th, 2012 » It is time for a new take on Spreadsheets
August 2^nd, 2012 » App-Help on the Cheap
July 10^th, 2012 » Feature Toggles: App-config workflow using SCM
May 8^th, 2011 » GitHub as a CMS to end CMSes
July 30^th, 2008 » Project Documentation Thoughts
April 26^th, 2007 » Introducing Branch By Abstraction
January 7^th, 2007 » Cozmos- CMS using webdav and Sitemesh
June 11^th, 2004 » Tools with Proprietary Source Control? Be Careful.

Agile

April 13^th, 2022 » More on Depth-first recursive vs DAG build technologies
April 8^th, 2022 » Depth-first recursive vs DAG build technologies
February 12^th, 2022 » A Tech Debt balance sheet
June 25^th, 2020 » Fixed-price UpWork Contracts
March 12^th, 2020 » Value Stream Mapping
November 20^th, 2019 » Environment Hell
October 20^th, 2019 » Quicker Local Maven Builds
October 12^th, 2019 » Diagrams to help or hinder understanding
July 11^th, 2019 » Tutorials vs Reference Docs vs Examples
July 24^th, 2018 » Win-Win Vendor Contracts
September 1^st, 2017 » Smalltalk Envy
August 28^th, 2017 » BDD Acceptance Criteria Pay For Themselves Multiple Times
May 14^th, 2017 » TodoMVC and given-when-then scenarios
April 7^th, 2017 » Tech Debt - Balance Sheets
February 12^th, 2017 » Shared-Nothing Builds
March 16^th, 2016 » List of 5th Agile Values
December 19^th, 2015 » The iron triangle is actually a square and not particularly iron
December 17^th, 2015 » More on technology compatibility kits in app development
October 16^th, 2015 » Using Mountebank to detach frontend and backend development
May 2^nd, 2015 » Scraping Leankit for analytics and pretty urls
January 27^th, 2015 » Detecting Redundant Tests
January 18^th, 2015 » Reducing Test Times by Only Running Impacted Tests - Python Edition
January 11^th, 2015 » Reducing Test Times by Only Running Impacted Tests - for Maven & Java
December 8^th, 2014 » Service Orientated Strangulation
September 10^th, 2014 » Throughput Over Backlog (a Fifth Agile Value)
September 1^st, 2014 » Microcosm environments/deployments
August 12^th, 2014 » Trunk supporting practices
May 10^th, 2014 » Developer Delayed Development
April 29^th, 2014 » Small Stories With Angular (case study)
March 14^th, 2014 » Building Software Is Nothing Like Building H̶o̶u̶s̶e̶s̶ Buildings
February 28^th, 2014 » Like a Used Sofa
October 17^th, 2013 » A 'Small Stories' Case Study
September 19^th, 2013 » Delaying non-functional stories
April 28^th, 2013 » When Agile meets Angular and UX-led development
March 20^th, 2013 » Reverse Engineering a DB for DevOps excellence
February 20^th, 2013 » Continuous Delivery: Professionals vs. Amateurs
February 16^th, 2013 » Misapplying Bayes-Theorem to Agile Versus Waterfall
November 12^th, 2012 » Smaller Stories
November 7^th, 2012 » Candidate Stories
November 1^st, 2012 » Testability and Cost of Change
April 24^th, 2012 » Call to Arms: Average Story Sizes of One Day
September 14^th, 2010 » Another UI prototyping technique (for Agile teams)
September 7^th, 2009 » Theory of Constraints and Agile
March 3^rd, 2007 » Simple wars
July 19^th, 2006 » Un-Agile Things
March 19^th, 2005 » Agility Alliance
October 19^th, 2004 » Ward on Dependency Injection
February 12^th, 2004 » Legacy TDD - RPG is not always a role playing game
September 4^th, 2003 » A declaration against Unit Tests
August 7^th, 2003 » Early Practices.
July 28^th, 2003 » Patterns
September 3^rd, 2002 » JIT Software
August 12^th, 2002 » Err away from rewrite

Trunk-Based Development

August 17^th, 2020 » GitLab hosted virtual TBD event - me being interviewed about my book
June 11^th, 2019 » Monorepos vs Megarepos
May 23^rd, 2018 » Examining CI, CD and branching models
October 30^th, 2017 » Trunk, CI, Builds, Environments, and Integration
February 14^th, 2017 » Pre-commit Continuous Integration infrastructure is cheaper than post-commit (for high throughput teams)
February 8^th, 2017 » Further Experiments With Expanding/Contracting Monorepos
January 27^th, 2017 » Maven In A Google Style Monorepo
February 15^th, 2016 » CI, Breaking Builds, Bisecting, And Reverting
December 13^th, 2015 » Trunk based development: when to branch for release
May 2^nd, 2015 » So you think monolith is the only alternative to microservices
April 23^rd, 2015 » The origins of Trunk-Based Development
December 8^th, 2014 » Service Orientated Strangulation
December 6^th, 2014 » Cross Platform - Sharing Code the Google Inbox way
November 14^th, 2014 » Source Code Laundering
October 23^rd, 2014 » Me Presenting on Trunk (etc) at the Perforce MERGE conference
October 20^th, 2014 » Checking in binaries
September 29^th, 2014 » Shades of Trunk-Based Development
September 24^th, 2014 » A Functional Branch by Abstraction Case Study
August 12^th, 2014 » Trunk supporting practices
April 10^th, 2014 » Continuous Delivery: The price of admission..
April 3^rd, 2014 » Microsoft's Trunk-Based Development
February 3^rd, 2014 » Facebook Scaling Mercurial for Trunk-Based Development
January 14^th, 2014 » Convincing Executives To Switch To Trunk-Based Development
January 10^th, 2014 » Non-Continuous Reviews
January 8^th, 2014 » Google's vs Facebook's Trunk-Based Development
January 8^th, 2014 » Git's Lightweight Merging
January 6^th, 2014 » Googlers Subset their Trunk
December 8^th, 2013 » Continuous Review (con't)
December 5^th, 2013 » Continuous Review
December 4^th, 2013 » What is Your Branching Model?
August 1^st, 2013 » Elastic Provisioning of New Environments
May 6^th, 2013 » Google's Scaled Trunk-Based Development
April 28^th, 2013 » When Agile meets Angular and UX-led development
April 9^th, 2013 » Scaling Trunk-Based Development
April 5^th, 2013 » What is Trunk-Based Development?
March 19^th, 2013 » The Cost of Unmerge
March 13^th, 2013 » Facebook's Trunk-Based Development (take 2)
March 11^th, 2013 » Legacy App Rejuvenation
March 4^th, 2013 » Trunk-Based Development at Facebook
November 29^th, 2011 » Cookie Cutter Scaling
September 30^th, 2011 » Branchable Continuous Integration
May 13^th, 2011 » Avoiding 'Big Bang' for Branch By Abstraction
April 18^th, 2011 » Binary Diffing for Increased Release Confidence
April 26^th, 2007 » Introducing Branch By Abstraction

Architecture & App Config

July 23^rd, 2019 » Some Thoughts On Toggles
June 1^st, 2019 » Modelling Architectures
January 31^st, 2018 » An Ontology: Component vs Class vs Object vs Service vs Application vs Process vs Library, etc
November 2^nd, 2017 » Step Aside Blockchains, Hashgraphs Are Giving Plain Merkle Trees A Turbo Boost
September 28^th, 2017 » Choosing Between Blockchains And Vanilla Merkle Trees
September 23^rd, 2017 » Wikis that use source-control for their backing store
July 29^th, 2016 » Anvil app platform: using GitHub as a datastore
July 11^th, 2016 » Anvil: Like MsAccess For The Web But With Git Coolness
June 10^th, 2016 » New Enterprise Web-App Design Choices for 2016
July 13^th, 2015 » How Google makes a consistent top-navigation across multiple apps
June 18^th, 2015 » INI files for form templates
June 7^th, 2015 » Custom JSON Editors for Github·com
May 2^nd, 2015 » So you think monolith is the only alternative to microservices
December 8^th, 2014 » The rise of version control
December 7^th, 2014 » Monoliths, Cookie-Cutter or Microservices?
December 6^th, 2014 » Cross Platform - Sharing Code the Google Inbox way
November 12^th, 2014 » The Config Promotion Problem
November 9^th, 2014 » To SOA or Not To SOA
August 27^th, 2014 » Provisioning, Deployment and Application Config Cycles
August 12^th, 2014 » Trunk supporting practices
February 15^th, 2014 » Application Architecture in the CD Era for Pro-Services teams
October 23^rd, 2013 » A lower technology style of Angular for the enterprise
October 12^th, 2013 » Bad Java servlet apps
August 1^st, 2013 » Elastic Provisioning of New Environments
January 8^th, 2013 » Perforce as a datastore, with Client-Side MVC
November 20^th, 2012 » Very Small Data
August 14^th, 2012 » App Config using Git and Angular
August 2^nd, 2012 » App-Help on the Cheap
July 10^th, 2012 » Feature Toggles: App-config workflow using SCM
June 12^th, 2012 » NoSQL for storage AND relational for reporting
February 6^th, 2012 » Web-app model quandary
February 6^th, 2012 » Previous Web Architectures
November 29^th, 2011 » Cookie Cutter Scaling
November 22^nd, 2011 » Google's accounts system - architectural meaning
September 21^st, 2011 » A forgotten aspect of the Facade Pattern
September 1^st, 2011 » Refactoring Experiment - 'least depending and most depended on' components first
August 6^th, 2011 » Stitz's Five port rule for enterprise application dev
May 12^th, 2006 » Very Simple Java interop with .Net over the wire without Web Services
October 19^th, 2004 » Ward on Dependency Injection
March 25^th, 2004 » Objects, Components, Services and Aspects
August 12^th, 2002 » EJB not the holy grail

Dependency Injection

October 12^th, 2013 » Bad Java servlet apps
March 20^th, 2013 » A Singleton Escape Plan
November 9^th, 2010 » A Spring Framework Shortcoming
August 20^th, 2010 » .Net Dependency Injection better practice
April 15^th, 2009 » AppEngine's blind-spot
April 7^th, 2009 » Google App Engine for Java with Rich Ruby clients
July 30^th, 2008 » Releasing PicoContainer 2.5 and JRemoting
March 22^nd, 2008 » What brought me to Inversion of Control in the first place ..
March 16^th, 2008 » Crazy Bob and type safety for Dependency Injection
July 22^nd, 2007 » Injecting into Servlets and undoing the stranglehold of web.xml
July 16^th, 2007 » PicoConatiner 2.0 beta released
March 16^th, 2007 » Waffle - Java web action framework with smallest lines of code count for action methods
May 8^th, 2006 » My presentation on Dependency Injection versus Big Up-Front Architecture
January 27^th, 2006 » NanoContainer Presentation
October 19^th, 2004 » Ward on Dependency Injection
October 12^th, 2004 » CDI Book
July 30^th, 2004 » My OSCON PicoNirvana slideshow
June 5^th, 2004 » PicoContainer 1.0 released (finally)
May 1^st, 2004 » O'Reilly's OSCON speaker
April 20^th, 2004 » Logging - just say no.
February 16^th, 2004 » Can the next big language drop public static void main(String[] args) please?
January 24^th, 2004 » Jesktop goes Pico
December 23^rd, 2003 » NMock PicoCompatability
December 23^rd, 2003 » Type3 rollout
December 5^th, 2003 » My Inversion of Control Rocks article on JDJ.
October 16^th, 2003 » Pico practices for .Net
October 16^th, 2003 » .Net pitfalls
October 7^th, 2003 » PicoContainer is non-threatening
September 17^th, 2003 » App.config in C#
September 3^rd, 2003 » Componentization
September 3^rd, 2003 » Endianism in OSS
September 3^rd, 2003 » Diversity
August 16^th, 2003 » PicoContainer 1.0b1...

Pseudo-declarative UIs

August 18^th, 2018 » Flutter and UI Automation
April 8^th, 2017 » Node.QML would have been the key to the Ubuntu Phones's success
November 15^th, 2016 » QML's Squandered Opportunity
September 8^th, 2015 » Decorators in the DOM
August 12^th, 2015 » Making a very small MP3 player with QML
September 30^th, 2014 » QML Becomes a Viable Mobile UI Framework Choice
September 22^nd, 2014 » Cross-Platform Mobile Application Development
September 17^th, 2014 » UI Development Has Never Been More Expensive
July 9^th, 2014 » Browsing QML instead of HTML
June 14^th, 2014 » Qt, QML, V-Play and multi-platform mobile
March 28^th, 2013 » Interface Builder's Alternative Lisp timeline
February 11^th, 2013 » Push or Pull Decorators
February 4^th, 2013 » The Importance of the DOM
January 31^st, 2013 » Application Development Glass Ceilings Revisited
January 12^th, 2013 » RubyMotion in a declarative UI style
January 12^th, 2013 » Categorizing Languages
January 11^th, 2013 » QML and the new Ubuntu phone OS
April 15^th, 2012 » Application Development Glass Ceilings
March 12^th, 2012 » The Importance of Design-Mode for Client-Side MVC
September 12^th, 2011 » What is Dart going to be?
September 26^th, 2009 » Kinetic - Qt based Declarative UI (one to watch)
April 13^th, 2009 » Shoes and Swiby - walking through the example RIA apps
April 7^th, 2009 » Google App Engine for Java with Rich Ruby clients
October 13^th, 2007 » Sweb 3.0
May 9^th, 2007 » JavaFX Mobile is *just* SavaJE aquired by Sun
January 10^th, 2006 » Ruby vs JavaScript for Web3.0
March 31^st, 2004 » Thicky- like the web, but with a Groovy thick-client experience
February 16^th, 2004 » Groovy - a convergence language

Client-Side MVC

June 10^th, 2016 » New Enterprise Web-App Design Choices for 2016
May 19^th, 2013 » Coming to Angular from something else
April 28^th, 2013 » When Agile meets Angular and UX-led development
March 6^th, 2013 » A better Slideshow App, using Angular
February 15^th, 2013 » Slideshow HTML App, using Angular
February 8^th, 2013 » Angular Instead of Media-Queries
January 18^th, 2013 » Client-Side MVC Roundup
January 8^th, 2013 » Perforce as a datastore, with Client-Side MVC
January 6^th, 2013 » Visualizing the Client-Side MVC race
October 31^st, 2012 » Angular for Designers.
April 13^th, 2012 » The Shift Towards Client-Side MVC
April 12^th, 2012 » Performance Testing Knockout, Angular and Backbone with Selenium2
April 9^th, 2012 » Testing Knockout and Angular with Selenium2
March 15^th, 2012 » AngularJS and Selenium (Again)
March 12^th, 2012 » The Importance of Design-Mode for Client-Side MVC
March 3^rd, 2012 » Replacing JQuery With Angular
February 14^th, 2012 » Client-Side MVC: browser plugins
February 13^th, 2012 » Client-Side MVC frameworks compared
February 10^th, 2012 » Client-Side-MVC applications : best practice (part 1)
February 8^th, 2012 » The document is the single source of truth
February 6^th, 2012 » Web-app model quandary
February 6^th, 2012 » Previous Web Architectures
February 1^st, 2012 » Angular and Selenium
February 1^st, 2012 » Angular and DreamWeaver
January 29^th, 2012 » (almost) No JavaScript prototyping with Angular in a single source file
January 23^rd, 2012 » UI Technology Paradigm Shift
February 27^th, 2011 » Introducing Story Navigator
September 28^th, 2009 » Angular - HTML based Declarative UI (also one to watch)

Quality Assurance

February 21^st, 2015 » Playing With Sikuli For Desktop Automation
January 27^th, 2015 » Detecting Redundant Tests
January 18^th, 2015 » Reducing Test Times by Only Running Impacted Tests - Python Edition
January 11^th, 2015 » Reducing Test Times by Only Running Impacted Tests - for Maven & Java
November 4^th, 2014 » Selenium is Ten Years Old
October 23^rd, 2013 » A lower technology style of Angular for the enterprise
August 31^st, 2013 » WebDriver and AngularJS
August 28^th, 2013 » Fluent Selenium with an Angular application
August 26^th, 2013 » A different style of Fluent Selenium tests
May 19^th, 2013 » Fluent Selenium Examples
November 1^st, 2012 » Testability and Cost of Change
April 12^th, 2012 » Performance Testing Knockout, Angular and Backbone with Selenium2
April 9^th, 2012 » Testing Knockout and Angular with Selenium2
March 15^th, 2012 » AngularJS and Selenium (Again)
February 1^st, 2012 » Angular and Selenium
December 11^th, 2011 » Sauce Labs: Tunnels or not?
November 14^th, 2011 » Reporting Selenium2 (WebDriver) bugs
September 30^th, 2011 » setContext(..) is back for Selenium2 :-P
September 23^rd, 2011 » Automatic sequence diagrams from BDD-scenario executions
August 31^st, 2011 » Contrasting Selenium 2 locator styles
August 4^th, 2011 » Hiring Selenium QA people
March 14^th, 2011 » I think it is time for QTP to die*
May 8^th, 2006 » My presentation on Dependency Injection versus Big Up-Front Architecture
May 7^th, 2005 » Selenium The Movie / Directors Cut
May 2^nd, 2005 » Selenium: kick ass web testing for free
April 26^th, 2005 » Selenium The Movie
April 28^th, 2004 » WinRunner Best Practices

Continuous Delivery

May 23^rd, 2018 » Examining CI, CD and branching models
December 12^th, 2017 » Dialing Up Your Application's Release Cadence
October 30^th, 2017 » Trunk, CI, Builds, Environments, and Integration
September 17^th, 2017 » The number of pre-production environments
June 17^th, 2017 » Developers Activities Shouldn't Change With Proximity To Release Dates
April 1^st, 2017 » Often forgotten must-haves for Continuous Delivery teams
September 17^th, 2015 » Continuous Delivery, SaaS, robots, and license fees
July 30^th, 2015 » All you can eat software licenses when doing Continuous Delivery
January 27^th, 2015 » Detecting Redundant Tests
January 18^th, 2015 » Reducing Test Times by Only Running Impacted Tests - Python Edition
January 11^th, 2015 » Reducing Test Times by Only Running Impacted Tests - for Maven & Java
December 7^th, 2014 » Monoliths, Cookie-Cutter or Microservices?
November 12^th, 2014 » The Config Promotion Problem
September 1^st, 2014 » Microcosm environments/deployments
August 27^th, 2014 » Provisioning, Deployment and Application Config Cycles
August 12^th, 2014 » Trunk supporting practices
April 10^th, 2014 » Continuous Delivery: The price of admission..
February 15^th, 2014 » Application Architecture in the CD Era for Pro-Services teams
January 14^th, 2014 » Convincing Executives To Switch To Trunk-Based Development
March 19^th, 2013 » The Cost of Unmerge
March 13^th, 2013 » Facebook's Trunk-Based Development (take 2)
March 4^th, 2013 » Trunk-Based Development at Facebook
February 20^th, 2013 » Continuous Delivery: Professionals vs. Amateurs

DevOps

October 15^th, 2019 » Overtesting Endpoints
October 7^th, 2018 » Conway's Observation
May 23^rd, 2018 » Examining CI, CD and branching models
August 6^th, 2017 » Environment Creation Times in Modern Teams
June 22^nd, 2017 » An Aspect of DevOps Improvements: The Reduction of Cycle Times
March 26^th, 2017 » Speedy builds using Service Virtualization (SV) explained in diagrams
March 25^th, 2017 » Repositories vs release cadences
March 25^th, 2017 » Engineering led companies
June 27^th, 2015 » Scraping Github pull requests and their code review comments
September 1^st, 2014 » Microcosm environments/deployments
April 10^th, 2014 » Continuous Delivery: The price of admission..
November 20^th, 2013 » Source Control is your new DR
November 19^th, 2013 » Elastic Environments in Source-Control with Ansible
August 1^st, 2013 » Elastic Provisioning of New Environments
April 9^th, 2013 » Scaling Trunk-Based Development
April 5^th, 2013 » What is Trunk-Based Development?
March 20^th, 2013 » Reverse Engineering a DB for DevOps excellence
March 13^th, 2013 » Facebook's Trunk-Based Development (take 2)
March 11^th, 2013 » Legacy App Rejuvenation
March 4^th, 2013 » Trunk-Based Development at Facebook
April 18^th, 2011 » Binary Diffing for Increased Release Confidence

Monorepos

June 11^th, 2019 » Monorepos vs Megarepos
April 4^th, 2017 » Benchmarking a Java/Maven monorepo
March 28^th, 2017 » Monorepos with recursive or directed-graph build technologies?
March 25^th, 2017 » Repositories vs release cadences
February 8^th, 2017 » Further Experiments With Expanding/Contracting Monorepos
January 27^th, 2017 » Maven In A Google Style Monorepo
February 15^th, 2016 » CI, Breaking Builds, Bisecting, And Reverting
September 20^th, 2015 » Extracting Subversion Branch Mappings
May 20^th, 2015 » Turning Bazel back into Blaze for monorepo nirvana
April 23^rd, 2015 » The origins of Trunk-Based Development
March 3^rd, 2015 » Perforce gets its own DVCS
January 8^th, 2015 » Omnipresent, Infallible, Omnipotent and Instantaneous Build Technologies
November 14^th, 2014 » Source Code Laundering
October 23^rd, 2014 » Me Presenting on Trunk (etc) at the Perforce MERGE conference
April 10^th, 2014 » Continuous Delivery: The price of admission..
April 3^rd, 2014 » Microsoft's Trunk-Based Development
January 8^th, 2014 » Google's vs Facebook's Trunk-Based Development
January 6^th, 2014 » Googlers Subset their Trunk
May 6^th, 2013 » Google's Scaled Trunk-Based Development
April 9^th, 2013 » Scaling Trunk-Based Development
April 5^th, 2013 » What is Trunk-Based Development?

Configuration as Code

July 23^rd, 2019 » Some Thoughts On Toggles
December 19^th, 2016 » Infrastructure versus Config as Code
July 29^th, 2016 » Anvil app platform: using GitHub as a datastore
June 26^th, 2016 » Using RhodeCode and Angular1 as an Editor for a 'Config as Code' System
June 18^th, 2015 » INI files for form templates
June 7^th, 2015 » Custom JSON Editors for Github·com
November 12^th, 2014 » The Config Promotion Problem
September 8^th, 2014 » Rules Engines Suck Too If They Are Not Backed By Source-Control
August 27^th, 2014 » Provisioning, Deployment and Application Config Cycles
August 12^th, 2014 » Trunk supporting practices
February 15^th, 2014 » Application Architecture in the CD Era for Pro-Services teams
January 8^th, 2013 » Perforce as a datastore, with Client-Side MVC
December 5^th, 2012 » Push or pull of config changes for a production stack
August 14^th, 2012 » App Config using Git and Angular
July 10^th, 2012 » Feature Toggles: App-config workflow using SCM

Content Management Systems

August 29^th, 2014 » Nearly All CMS Technologies Suck
March 15^th, 2013 » Article Syndication on GitHub via Subversion
February 24^th, 2013 » Angular in a Jekyll Blog
February 8^th, 2013 » Angular Instead of Media-Queries
January 6^th, 2013 » The sorry state of the anti-software-patents movement
January 2^nd, 2013 » GitHub Pages as a CMS again
August 2^nd, 2012 » App-Help on the Cheap
July 16^th, 2011 » New Blog Technology and Hosting
May 8^th, 2011 » GitHub as a CMS to end CMSes
July 30^th, 2008 » Project Documentation Thoughts
January 15^th, 2007 » Cozmos gets Subversion backend
January 7^th, 2007 » Cozmos- CMS using webdav and Sitemesh
December 7^th, 2006 » An alternative to wikis
April 11^th, 2005 » Content Editing Nirvana
June 11^th, 2004 » Tools with Proprietary Source Control? Be Careful.

Branch by Abstraction, etc

September 24^th, 2014 » A Functional Branch by Abstraction Case Study
August 12^th, 2014 » Trunk supporting practices
January 14^th, 2014 » Convincing Executives To Switch To Trunk-Based Development
April 5^th, 2013 » What is Trunk-Based Development?
March 19^th, 2013 » The Cost of Unmerge
March 13^th, 2013 » Facebook's Trunk-Based Development (take 2)
March 11^th, 2013 » Legacy App Rejuvenation
March 4^th, 2013 » Trunk-Based Development at Facebook
November 1^st, 2012 » Testability and Cost of Change
July 10^th, 2012 » Feature Toggles: App-config workflow using SCM
April 24^th, 2012 » Call to Arms: Average Story Sizes of One Day
September 30^th, 2011 » Branchable Continuous Integration
May 13^th, 2011 » Avoiding 'Big Bang' for Branch By Abstraction
December 7^th, 2010 » Branch By Abstraction Log Jam
April 26^th, 2007 » Introducing Branch By Abstraction

Our Merkleized Future

August 14^th, 2022 » Merkleized Public Attestations
January 19^th, 2020 » VCS Nirvana
July 21^st, 2019 » Using Git In Business And Government
June 27^th, 2019 » Merkle Trees Underpinning Civilization Going Forward
June 14^th, 2019 » Merkle Trees and Source Control
August 6^th, 2018 » Decentralize, Centralize or Somewhere In-Between?
May 30^th, 2018 » Better practices for audits
November 2^nd, 2017 » Step Aside Blockchains, Hashgraphs Are Giving Plain Merkle Trees A Turbo Boost
November 2^nd, 2017 » Merkle Trees vs Blockchains vs Hashgraphs
September 28^th, 2017 » Choosing Between Blockchains And Vanilla Merkle Trees
September 28^th, 2017 » Blockchains in pictures
September 17^th, 2017 » 'Old-School' Merkle Trees Rock
September 17^th, 2017 » Merkle Trees In Pictures

Refactoring

July 25^th, 2016 » Java legacy hairball: refactoring case-study
May 8^th, 2014 » TDD When You Can't Refactor
March 14^th, 2014 » Building Software Is Nothing Like Building H̶o̶u̶s̶e̶s̶ Buildings
July 31^st, 2013 » Some more on 'Strangulation inside Tomcat'
July 15^th, 2013 » Legacy Java Applications: Strangulation inside Tomcat
July 14^th, 2013 » Legacy Application Strangulation : Case Studies
March 20^th, 2013 » A Singleton Escape Plan
March 20^th, 2013 » Reverse Engineering a DB for DevOps excellence
March 11^th, 2013 » Legacy App Rejuvenation
September 1^st, 2011 » Refactoring Experiment - 'least depending and most depended on' components first
November 9^th, 2010 » A Spring Framework Shortcoming

Cookie Cutter Scaling

June 1^st, 2019 » Modelling Architectures
October 7^th, 2018 » Conway's Observation
December 11^th, 2016 » Permissions for composite in-house webapps
July 13^th, 2015 » How Google makes a consistent top-navigation across multiple apps
May 2^nd, 2015 » So you think monolith is the only alternative to microservices
April 14^th, 2015 » A lesser talked about feature of Microservices
December 7^th, 2014 » Monoliths, Cookie-Cutter or Microservices?
November 9^th, 2014 » To SOA or Not To SOA
April 9^th, 2013 » Scaling Trunk-Based Development
November 29^th, 2011 » Cookie Cutter Scaling
November 22^nd, 2011 » Google's accounts system - architectural meaning

Continuous Integration

May 23^rd, 2018 » Examining CI, CD and branching models
December 12^th, 2017 » Dialing Up Your Application's Release Cadence
October 30^th, 2017 » Trunk, CI, Builds, Environments, and Integration
May 1^st, 2017 » Scoring Continuous Integration
April 20^th, 2017 » The definition of 'The Build' has changed over time
February 14^th, 2017 » Pre-commit Continuous Integration infrastructure is cheaper than post-commit (for high throughput teams)
February 14^th, 2017 » Fake News Via Continuous Isolation
February 12^th, 2017 » Shared-Nothing Builds
February 15^th, 2016 » CI, Breaking Builds, Bisecting, And Reverting
July 30^th, 2015 » All you can eat software licenses when doing Continuous Delivery
November 5^th, 2013 » Branchable CI with Thoughtworks' Snap
September 30^th, 2011 » Branchable Continuous Integration

Micro-Frontends

December 11^th, 2016 » Permissions for composite in-house webapps
July 13^th, 2015 » How Google makes a consistent top-navigation across multiple apps
May 2^nd, 2015 » So you think monolith is the only alternative to microservices
April 14^th, 2015 » A lesser talked about feature of Microservices
December 7^th, 2014 » Monoliths, Cookie-Cutter or Microservices?
November 9^th, 2014 » To SOA or Not To SOA
April 9^th, 2013 » Scaling Trunk-Based Development
November 29^th, 2011 » Cookie Cutter Scaling
November 22^nd, 2011 » Google's accounts system - architectural meaning

Legacy Rejuvenation

July 25^th, 2016 » Java legacy hairball: refactoring case-study
December 8^th, 2014 » Service Orientated Strangulation
March 14^th, 2014 » Building Software Is Nothing Like Building H̶o̶u̶s̶e̶s̶ Buildings
July 31^st, 2013 » Some more on 'Strangulation inside Tomcat'
July 15^th, 2013 » Legacy Java Applications: Strangulation inside Tomcat
July 14^th, 2013 » Legacy Application Strangulation : Case Studies
March 20^th, 2013 » A Singleton Escape Plan
March 11^th, 2013 » Legacy App Rejuvenation
April 26^th, 2007 » Introducing Branch By Abstraction

Continuous Review

February 14^th, 2017 » Pre-commit Continuous Integration infrastructure is cheaper than post-commit (for high throughput teams)
December 15^th, 2015 » Branches should be for change of policy on the same source
June 27^th, 2015 » Scraping Github pull requests and their code review comments
November 13^th, 2014 » Code Review - the unit of work should be a single commit
January 14^th, 2014 » Convincing Executives To Switch To Trunk-Based Development
January 10^th, 2014 » Non-Continuous Reviews
January 8^th, 2014 » Google's vs Facebook's Trunk-Based Development
December 8^th, 2013 » Continuous Review (con't)
December 5^th, 2013 » Continuous Review

TCKs

January 18^th, 2021 » JBehave and Servirtium
April 23^rd, 2020 » Servirtium use in a client and supplier co-development
June 14^th, 2019 » TCKs and Servirtium
July 24^th, 2018 » Win-Win Vendor Contracts
July 13^th, 2018 » Another Graphic for Technology Compatibility Kits (TCKs)
March 26^th, 2017 » Speedy builds using Service Virtualization (SV) explained in diagrams
February 5^th, 2017 » Service Virtualization Strategies For Fast Builds
December 17^th, 2015 » More on technology compatibility kits in app development
October 16^th, 2015 » Using Mountebank to detach frontend and backend development

Small Stories

July 24^th, 2018 » Win-Win Vendor Contracts
June 22^nd, 2017 » An Aspect of DevOps Improvements: The Reduction of Cycle Times
May 10^th, 2014 » Developer Delayed Development
April 29^th, 2014 » Small Stories With Angular (case study)
October 17^th, 2013 » A 'Small Stories' Case Study
July 14^th, 2013 » Legacy Application Strangulation : Case Studies
November 12^th, 2012 » Smaller Stories
April 24^th, 2012 » Call to Arms: Average Story Sizes of One Day

Source-Control Backed

August 6^th, 2018 » Decentralize, Centralize or Somewhere In-Between?
September 23^rd, 2017 » Wikis that use source-control for their backing store
May 13^th, 2017 » Alternative to Maven Central for Jar publishing (multiple Git repositories)
July 29^th, 2016 » Anvil app platform: using GitHub as a datastore
July 11^th, 2016 » Anvil: Like MsAccess For The Web But With Git Coolness
September 8^th, 2014 » Rules Engines Suck Too If They Are Not Backed By Source-Control
August 29^th, 2014 » Nearly All CMS Technologies Suck
November 20^th, 2012 » Very Small Data

eXtreme Programming & Practices

May 8^th, 2014 » TDD When You Can't Refactor
November 1^st, 2012 » Testability and Cost of Change
September 1^st, 2011 » Refactoring Experiment - 'least depending and most depended on' components first
May 2^nd, 2005 » Transparency
April 26^th, 2005 » JMock crash course

Application Strangulation

July 25^th, 2016 » Java legacy hairball: refactoring case-study
December 8^th, 2014 » Service Orientated Strangulation
January 14^th, 2014 » Convincing Executives To Switch To Trunk-Based Development
July 31^st, 2013 » Some more on 'Strangulation inside Tomcat'
July 15^th, 2013 » Legacy Java Applications: Strangulation inside Tomcat
July 14^th, 2013 » Legacy Application Strangulation : Case Studies
August 12^th, 2002 » Err away from rewrite

Team Psychology

April 4^th, 2020 » Risk And Responsibility Should Be An Exchange
July 9^th, 2017 » Alignment and Autonomy and Quorums
January 11^th, 2016 » Predictive Index Stereotypes
July 27^th, 2015 » Mavericks versus loose cannons
November 20^th, 2014 » Strong Argumentative Positions
July 25^th, 2011 » My Predictive Index
March 3^rd, 2007 » Simple wars

Service Virtualization

June 14^th, 2019 » TCKs and Servirtium
March 26^th, 2017 » Speedy builds using Service Virtualization (SV) explained in diagrams
February 13^th, 2017 » Wire Mocking Without A Service Virtualization Framework
February 5^th, 2017 » Service Virtualization Strategies For Fast Builds
February 5^th, 2017 » A 16 Second Java Webapp Build (Including WebDriver Tests)
December 17^th, 2015 » More on technology compatibility kits in app development
October 16^th, 2015 » Using Mountebank to detach frontend and backend development

Googles Build System

May 20^th, 2015 » Turning Bazel back into Blaze for monorepo nirvana
January 8^th, 2015 » Omnipresent, Infallible, Omnipotent and Instantaneous Build Technologies
October 23^rd, 2014 » Me Presenting on Trunk (etc) at the Perforce MERGE conference
January 8^th, 2014 » Google's vs Facebook's Trunk-Based Development
January 6^th, 2014 » Googlers Subset their Trunk
May 6^th, 2013 » Google's Scaled Trunk-Based Development

Elastic Environment Provisioning

August 27^th, 2014 » Provisioning, Deployment and Application Config Cycles
August 12^th, 2014 » Trunk supporting practices
February 15^th, 2014 » Application Architecture in the CD Era for Pro-Services teams
November 20^th, 2013 » Source Control is your new DR
November 19^th, 2013 » Elastic Environments in Source-Control with Ansible
August 1^st, 2013 » Elastic Provisioning of New Environments

Expanding and Contracting Monorepos

March 25^th, 2017 » Repositories vs release cadences
February 8^th, 2017 » Further Experiments With Expanding/Contracting Monorepos
January 27^th, 2017 » Maven In A Google Style Monorepo
May 20^th, 2015 » Turning Bazel back into Blaze for monorepo nirvana
January 8^th, 2014 » Google's vs Facebook's Trunk-Based Development
January 6^th, 2014 » Googlers Subset their Trunk

Limits of Merging

June 18^th, 2016 » Subversion Merge Limitations That Are Not In Fossil
October 5^th, 2015 » Subversion Merge Limitations That Are Not In Perforce
September 29^th, 2015 » Subversion Merge Limitations That Are Not In Mercurial
September 27^th, 2015 » Subversion Merge Limitations That Are Not In Git
March 15^th, 2014 » More On Git Merges
January 8^th, 2014 » Git's Lightweight Merging

Internet Plumbing, and Standards

December 8^th, 2010 » Extending the life of IPv4
November 1^st, 2010 » Not-Path Cookies
February 22^nd, 2010 » Cookies with regular expression paths
July 27^th, 2006 » Did you send this - another weapon against spam?
September 5^th, 2002 » SPAM

Shift Left

March 12^th, 2020 » Value Stream Mapping
October 23^rd, 2014 » Me Presenting on Trunk (etc) at the Perforce MERGE conference
September 1^st, 2014 » Microcosm environments/deployments
April 10^th, 2014 » Continuous Delivery: The price of admission..
November 1^st, 2012 » Testability and Cost of Change

Email Modernized

April 4^th, 2016 » Reducing My Robo-Emails To A Handful of Rollup Emails Every Few Minutes (IMAP Rewriting With Python)
September 3^rd, 2015 » Resurrecting a small piece of Google Wave
May 4^th, 2015 » Treating IMAP as a store: rewriting emails
October 27^th, 2014 » The Pervasive Inbox
January 30^th, 2014 » It is Time for Email Apps to Support (sandboxed) JavaScript

Software Patents

April 27^th, 2013 » What to do about the broken patent system
January 29^th, 2013 » Content Syndication using Source Control
January 6^th, 2013 » The sorry state of the anti-software-patents movement
March 3^rd, 2005 » European Software Patent Spectre

Theory Of Constraints

March 12^th, 2020 » Value Stream Mapping
September 26^th, 2016 » Visualizing the Theory of Constraints
November 12^th, 2012 » Smaller Stories
September 7^th, 2009 » Theory of Constraints and Agile

Behavior Driven Development

September 23^rd, 2011 » Automatic sequence diagrams from BDD-scenario executions
April 5^th, 2011 » Running JBehave/WebDriver Tests on Sauce Labs' Service
March 14^th, 2011 » I think it is time for QTP to die*
February 27^th, 2011 » Introducing Story Navigator

Teams & Hiring

January 17^th, 2016 » Wishing For Improvements To Linkedin
July 27^th, 2012 » Three Tier Resumes
August 9^th, 2011 » No One Gives Themselves Bad Ratings (in hiring, apparently)
August 4^th, 2011 » Hiring Selenium QA people

Most Depended On & Least Depending

July 25^th, 2016 » Java legacy hairball: refactoring case-study
December 8^th, 2014 » Service Orientated Strangulation
March 11^th, 2013 » Legacy App Rejuvenation
September 1^st, 2011 » Refactoring Experiment - 'least depending and most depended on' components first

Persistence & NoSQL

July 30^th, 2014 » GeoJSON mashups and GitHub
January 8^th, 2013 » Perforce as a datastore, with Client-Side MVC
November 20^th, 2012 » Very Small Data
June 12^th, 2012 » NoSQL for storage AND relational for reporting

Microcosm Environments

September 17^th, 2017 » The number of pre-production environments
August 6^th, 2017 » Environment Creation Times in Modern Teams
February 12^th, 2017 » Shared-Nothing Builds
September 1^st, 2014 » Microcosm environments/deployments

Test Impact Analysis

October 20^th, 2019 » Quicker Local Maven Builds
January 27^th, 2015 » Detecting Redundant Tests
January 18^th, 2015 » Reducing Test Times by Only Running Impacted Tests - Python Edition
January 11^th, 2015 » Reducing Test Times by Only Running Impacted Tests - for Maven & Java

Software Diagrams

August 24^th, 2017 » Another Architecture Diagram
December 14^th, 2016 » The Principles of Containment
December 28^th, 2015 » Architecture Diagrams

Architecture

January 24^th, 2024 » Infrastructure as Code DSLs
August 12^th, 2022 » Principles of Containment in the DOM
December 14^th, 2016 » The Principles of Containment

Logging

April 20^th, 2004 » Logging - just say no.
December 21^st, 2002 » (Logwars restarted) Commons Logging.

Java6 committee participation

March 14^th, 2007 » Announcing Paranamer; an open source answer to the dropping of parameter name access from Java6
June 19^th, 2006 » Derby's arrival in Java 6 surprises me too (and I'm a Java 6 committee member)

License Fees Double Dipping

September 17^th, 2015 » Continuous Delivery, SaaS, robots, and license fees
July 30^th, 2015 » All you can eat software licenses when doing Continuous Delivery

Continuous Isolation

August 21^st, 2017 » A Cynical View Of Bonus Calculations
February 14^th, 2017 » Fake News Via Continuous Isolation

Serverless

June 13^th, 2018 » Thinking About Serverless Again
October 25^th, 2017 » A Serverless Sequence Diagram

Cloud Computing

April 15^th, 2009 » AppEngine's blind-spot

Confluence JS Apps

May 30^th, 2016 » Hacking Confluence With Javascript

Blockchains

November 2^nd, 2016 » Blockchains for patent filings