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Icebreaker for Agile Retrospectives – Empathy Snap
I was invited by one of our London dev teams to facilitate their retrospective yesterday. I’m far from an expert in facilitating retros, although I enjoy it, and I find that I learn a huge amount from...
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Festive Graphite Line Art for the Masses
You have an installation of Graphite, a desire to learn more Ruby, and some festive spirit – what emerges? An xmas tree drawn using proper metrics via the Ruby graphite gem, of course! The magic...
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London Continuous Delivery meetup with Opscode Chef
The London Continuous Delivery meetup group had its first session of 2013 on 17 Jan. We were fortunate to be able to use the offices of [my employer] thetrainline.com in central London, and doubly...
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How HTTPbis changes HTTP caching, and why CDNs are not always the answer
HTTP caching is a key part of what makes the web usable, and draft standards like HTTPbis add further refinements to the existing HTTP/1.1 caching features. At WebPerfDays 2012, Mark Nottingham (@mnot)...
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What Makes an Effective Build and Deployment Radiator Screen?
Build screens (or build monitors, or information radiators) are an important tool in helping to achieve Continuous Integration and in trapping errors early. When the number of build jobs becomes large,...
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Tutorial – How to build your own website using HTML and WordPress
I have published a set of workshop notes on Github called Build Your Own Website – A Beginner’s Guide, covering the basics of HTML and WordPress-driven websites. I gave the workshop at a recent...
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Summary of DevOps Summit London 2013
Here is a video interview I gave summarizing some of the main themes and discussions which came out of the DevOps Summit on May 23rd in London: a shared goal for development and operations;...
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Continuous Delivery Workshop with Neal Ford (@neal4d) – a Retrospective
I attended a workshop at DevWeek 2012 led by Neal Ford (@neal4d) on Continuous Delivery (CD). The day was excellent – Neal is a really engaging presenter – and I took copious notes, even though I’d...
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DevOps Questions from Unicom DevOps Summit Feb 2014
At the Unicom DevOps Summit event in London on February 28th 2014 we experimented with some extra audience/attendee participation by asking for questions on record cards and encouraged people to...
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Things I (Don’t) Like About Continuous Delivery – LondonCD meetup June 2017
This is part 4 of a 4-part series of articles based on discussions at the LondonCD meetup group on 12 June 2017. The other posts are linked at the end of this article. Our 4th Open Space discussion...
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