How Hubot Automation Crystallized Trust within our Development Team

February 20, 2014October 17, 2018 ~ Dan Ackerson ~ Leave a comment

"Hey Dan, could you deploy the coolPics branch to test? Sorry for the bother." "No problem, man. Tell me the SHA and I'll deploy it." I had been having this conversation 4-5 times a day for a couple of weeks now. Being a huge fan of continuous integration, I wondered how to automate this. Why … Continue reading How Hubot Automation Crystallized Trust within our Development Team

Code Inventory and Tracking Releases

August 30, 2012 ~ Dan Ackerson ~ Leave a comment

You know by now that Code Inventory is something of an obsession with me. Like it or not, most of us, whether developers or sysadmins, work in a service industry. It's fast and furious, and we don't have time to build features that nobody wants. With sufficient test coverage, there's no code that can't be … Continue reading Code Inventory and Tracking Releases