Tag: blogging

• May 14, 2015

  Using Stout to parse command-line options

  A new post of mine has just been published on Mesosphere Blog: Almost every program needs to parse some form of command-line argument. Often, this is a pretty large set of possible options, and the management of the various options is usually pretty tedious while adding virtually no value to the program’s functionality. Google’s gflags […]
• February 14, 2014

  From null to a hundred in six months (3)

  Or how to achieve bi-weekly releases at SaaS scale Part III – People This is Part III of a series, see Other Parts in the Series Stupidity Laws One day many years ago, must have been around 2001, when I was still involved with my own venture, I happened across a short pamphlet tantalizingly named The […]
• February 7, 2014

  From null to a hundred in six months (4)

  Or how to achieve bi-weekly releases at SaaS scale Part IV – Processes This is Part IV of a series, see Other Parts in the Series Code Reviews When you join Google, you cannot commit code to the main codebase – no matter how senior or experienced you are (I suspect they did not allow […]
• February 3, 2014

  From null to a hundred in six months

  Or how to achieve bi-weekly releases at SaaS scale Background Almost exactly a year ago I joined RiverMeadow: a self-described “cloud mobility” SaaS platform, with the modest task of improving a product I was told was “ready for market” and a team that only needed “some improvement, and a better adoption of Engineering best practices” – in slightly […]
• July 3, 2009

  Using a decent blog editor

  Let’s face it, Blooger’s editor for posts is, er, well.. “lacking” — ok, it sucks! There, I’ve said it…. There are so many shortcomings with it that there’s no point in listing them all here, but suffice to say that having a tiny editing window is not the most enticing UI for an editor that […]