My mother always told me about the carpenter who would measure twice and cut once. It didn’t make any sense to me as a kid, but I soon understood exactly what she meant the day I built my first set of shelves. Hrm. If only I had listened to her sooner … It seems that… [Continued]
Hah. So here’s something of a Nose gotcha that caught me out the other day, and hopefully you won’t make the same mistake as me! In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, Nose is a neat Python test discovery and runner. Essentially you can point it at your Python source code and it… [Continued]
As part of any project we undertake, we usually like to work in a particular style. Now, ultimately we want to follow a process that our clients enjoy, that allows us to finish projects within a well-defined and predictable time-scale, and that allows clients to launch products earlier rather than later to give best return… [Continued]
It’s happened to the best of us; no matter what scalability plans we put into place, no matter how many horizontally scaled virtual hosts we spin up, no matter how we shard our carefully crafted data, no matter how many greens we show in our automated tests, there’s always one element that might just catch… [Continued]
Janis was the kind of woman you didn’t mess with. She had the typical East End[1] attitude of love for “family” and aggression to anyone who “crossed the line”. A cockney by birth, she came up through the ranks starting as a young girl in the typing pool, and ended up forty years later in… [Continued]