Build, Run, Repeat - page 5
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Expert Tricycle Riding - Modern User Interfaces
Back in the halcyon days of 1968, an engineer named Douglas Engelbart gave a presentation, nicknamed “The Mother of All Demos”. If you’ve got the spare couple of hours, you should absolutely go watch it, however here are some of the things demonstrated.
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Interrogating the Feature
A lot of this week has been spent digging around in Selenium (recently discovered it has a pretty nice C# implementation) and throwing it into release pipelines. That’s a topic that has been done to death in various ways, so this week I’m writing about something which is more from my design background - but has been incredibly helpful in my time as a developer. That being the process of figuring out if you’re asking the right questions - and if you’re not, how do you craft that right question? “Garbage In, Garbage Out” applies as much to delivering software as it does to data science, after all.
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What the Hell is a Pipeline?
Mostly I’ve been taking things fairly chill this week on my personal projects - however what I have been spending a lot of time working on is my build pipelines. Off of this, I thought it’d be interesting to do a really basic, practical guide on exactly what a pipeline is, and what their value is. For the entirety of this post, I’ll be talking about Azure DevOps pipelines specifically - but other options are available!
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Pretending I Have Production
I’ve mentioned previously that I have a small personal dashboard I maintain for displaying my fitness data. My main usecase is displaying it on an old TV - I think it’s important to keep your goals and progress visible, and I’ve done it for a long time (mostly with whiteboards). One of the decisions I made recently was to establish some form of “production” that wasn’t hacked together on a Raspberry Pi.
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Not My Job
When I first moved into being a full time software developer, one of the first things I had to familiarise myself with was release processes. My background was as a designer, and part of that in my previous role had been building and maintaining the company website. It was how I got a taste for code, building WordPress and Drupal components. This included getting the code for the website up onto the webserver. Even before really understanding development, I managed to get away from just FTP-ing files around and instead pulling down from a git repository to do my “releases” - even if I was doing it manually, directly SSH’ed into the server.
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