My friend and colleague at Fluidinfo, Manuel Cerón, gave me this script that he wrote to remove merged branches from local and remote Git repositories. Removing branches after merging is one of those fairly painless housekeeping tasks that doesn't create a great deal of friction, which makes it easy ...
Earlier this year I was working with Canonical's design team. We were putting our heads together to develop a fantastic cloud user experience in Landscape. I created a concept map to help clarify the various artefacts involved in the EC2 API. It's not entirely complete, but it does ...
UPDATE I've moved my emacs configuration to GitHub.
Some time ago during a sprint, I noticed that Free Ekanayaka, one of my Landscape teammates, had excellent pyflakes/flymake integration that dramatically improved the experience of editing Python files in emacs. When I asked him about it he kindly offered ...
Yesterday I released version 0.17 of
Storm. This release fixes a
checkpointing bug that could cause coherency issues in certain
situations involving triggers. It introduces a handful of new
features and optimizations including the ability to get a
Select
expression from a
ResultSet,
which is useful when building a ...
I've been using the EC2 API quite a lot lately, while working on the Landscape project. The API documentation is excellent, but I want to know how it behaves when things go wrong. What kind of failure is produced when I forget to pass a parameter? What happens when ...
In Storm, the
Store.find
method runs a query and returns matching objects. Finding all
accounts in the database, the equivalent of SELECT * FROM account,
is simple:
result = store.find(Account)
Clauses to limit the scope of the query can be passed to find. Finding all accounts owned by Vince ...
I've been meaning to write about Commandant for ages. I started it last year because I wanted to write command driven applications with a user experience just like Bazaar. There are several things that I like about Bazaar's user interface:
People ask me questions about Storm several times a week, and I'm happy to help where I can, but it would be better if the information our users need was easier to find. Our documentation story is weak and, as a result, Storm is harder to discover than it ...