February 2012
1 post
Jenkins Rails build execute script
So if you’ve got your Jenkins build hosted on AWS with a configured AMI that’s booted as a slave node to run your tests on, you probably don’t want to have any per project configuration on that image so as to make it easy to add a new project to the build without having to create an new AMI image.
One of those common configuration options is the database.yml file. Just go into...
December 2011
4 posts
4 tags
Decisions and fear
I’ve often sat pondering what causes people to always seek advice or wait to be told before they take action. In startups this sort of behaviour is ok if it occurs once in a while, but in over a decade of working in companies and self funded startups I’ve noticed that the success in a company really hinges on the ratio of decision makers to non decision makers.
Decision Makers
Also...
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Sounds familiar
It’s so common in a lot of companies to focus on vanity goals. One of the strangest and most common is how long can you work without sleep. In reality it’s actually how long can you function, rather than work as I’ve noticed some unfortunate people who take the whole minimal sleep thing as a badge of honour with disastrous results.
To those I say stop it. You’re...
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