Welcome to a series of posts where I document my thoughts and experiments as an avid tinkerer, learner, and explorer in Technology Experiments : Creating a Crypto Twitter Bot to Announce Newly Listed CryptoCoins In crypto trading, there are big... Read more about Experiments : Creating a Crypto Twitter Bot to Announce Newly Listed CryptoCoins
Lessons from Production - Effective Cache Config for Single Page Webapps Welcome to the first of a series of posts about general knowledge from running Single Page App at scale in Production! In this edition, we discuss the best practices... Read more about Lessons from Production : Effective Cache Config for Single Page Webapps
A list of of books I’ve read or plan to read. Includes ratings! Ratings 🌑 Haven’t read yet 🌘 🌗 🌖 Reading progress 🌝 Wouldn’t recommend 👍 Finished reading, liked it 🌟 Loved it, strongly recommend Self-Growth & Leadership... Read more about Books I'm Reading
Welcome to a series of posts where I document my thoughts and experiments as an avid tinkerer, learner, and explorer in Technology Experiments : Creating my own Kenny Token Cryptocurrency In the flurry of ICOs and the hype of cryprocurrencies,... Read more about Experiments: Creating my Kenny Token Cryptocurrency
Greetings all, Now that we’ve been though the details of how to set up a simple assertion test with QUnit and PhantomJs in a Maven Continuous Integration build in part 1, let’s take a closer look at all the assertions... Read more about Testing the JavaScript DOM updates with QUnit and PhantomJS in an automated Maven build
Since the 2008 financial crisis, enacted regulations mandates an entirely different approach to risk analysis. This means that the old systems, which relied on overnight batch risk calculations and predefined queries, can no longer suffice, and a more real time... Read more about Scalable Financial Services Risk Analysis in Real Time
Renowned JavaScript Guru Addy Osmani has a great presentation on how to handle JavaScript on large projects (defined as >100K LOC) Today’s solutions and frameworks are great, but how do you keep them under control as your project grows? In... Read more about Large-scale JavaScript Application Architecture
The typical workflow of a Continous Integration/Continuous Deployment process is fairly well understood. As a quick recap, code is checked out regularly, then built, and following that a whole suite of tests are run to confirm that the code changes... Read more about Polling for Deployment Completion of a Webapp in a Continuous Integration Environment with a Maven Plugin
LinkedIn has an interesting approach to Continuous Integration in their mobile app. Of special interest are the ‘Fixture tests’ which mock HTTP/AJAX requests, and the ‘Layout tests’ which does a visual comparison against baseline! Would be very interesting to try... Read more about LinkedIn’s Continuous Integration for Mobile
Wow, this was eye-opening! 80,000 builds and 50% of the Google code base changes each month! At this scale, their HEAD development (as described in the above link) and their discipline and detail in unit testing & code reviews is... Read more about Bug detection and prediction at Google
Jez Humble (Thoughtworks author of the book Continuous Delivery) has a thoughtful new piece on the team structures to support Continuous Delivery - http://continuousdelivery.com/2011/12/organize-software-delivery-around-outcomes-not-roles/ Read more about Jez Humble on Continuous Delivery Team Structures
Problem : QUnit tests are great, but they only run in my browser locally. I want to be able to run these tests locally while developing yet still be able to hand those tests off for automated testing by Maven... Read more about Running QUnit JavaScript tests in a Maven Continuous Integration Build with PhantomJs
Skipfish is a great and FAST automated pen test tool with a low barrier to entry by Google’s own web security expert Michal Zalewski. Skipfish is distributed as source only at http://code.google.com/p/skipfish/ and I’ve looked around the web for a... Read more about Skipfish Latest Windows Precompiled Binary
A few short months ago, LinkedIn unveiled their latest mobile app which in my opinion is an unparalleled execution of a fantastic hybrid app. I truly believe the hybrid app is the way of the future for mobile development where... Read more about LinkedIn Mobile Automated Testing Approach
Another great presentation on how to maximise the value out of your JUnit tests from John Smart of Wakaleo Consulting. These conventions will certainly go a long way to making the tests more readable JUnit Kung Fu: Getting More Out... Read more about Getting More Out Of Your JUnit Tests