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Posts from November 2007

WordPress 2.3.1

<blog.service.announcement> I’ve just upgraded from 2.2.x(?) to the latest and greatest. I think everything is back to normal – but if you notice anything unusual – please let me know. </blog.service.announcement>


Automated deployment == CI for Operations

Deployment is a subject that is near and dear to my heart. I’m almost always the guy who gets to debug production problems, deployment problems and generally wears a developer + infrastructure hat.1 When it comes to web applications – most teams don’t bother automating their deployment processes. This is something that I think is [...]


Enterprise plaforms – teaching new dogs old tricks

Oren is talking about building a substrate for an enterprise platform. This has been something I’ve wanted to do since I first got my hands on c# and the rest of the .net framework in 2001. I’ve never done it because it always seemed that a one size fits all solution would be unworkable. At [...]


Multiple instances of memcached on win32

It seems like the win32 crowd is discovering memcached. I’ve got a couple of support queries about it over the last month or two and I thought I’d post an interesting one here: “How can you run multiple instances of memcached on a single machine?” There’s a couple of reasons why you’d want to do [...]


Eric Evans on over-design and intrinsic complexity

Just watched a great presentation by Eric Evans (of Domain Driven Design fame) called: Strategic Domain-Driven Design – Effective Modelling for Larger Projects. I highly recommend it. Here’s a couple of great quotes (It’s worth noting that he’s talking about large projects): Not everything is going to be well designed. You may have a part [...]