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About two weeks ago, the server company I go through (iwebserv.com.au) had an "incident"... one of the harddisks on the main server died. This caused an extended outage (almost a week), and a total loss of data. For one reason or another, iwebserv have not been able to resurrect the data on the server yet.
Continue reading "Well, I'm back up... shame the server wasn't." »
I'm leaving Suncorp in January, after about 3 years there. I'm taking up a position at wotif.com, where I will be joining a small team that drives their website.
Developers continually get asked to provide an estimate with a high degree of accuracy. They are expected to spend a fixed period of time to produce the estimate.
A neat little Eclipse plugin I'm playing with at the moment is the Continuous Testing Plugin for Eclipse. The basic purpose of this plugin is to run your tests (or a selected subset) as part of the build cycle in Eclipse.
Andy Marks recently posted a dissection of various categories of build failures. In general, I agree that there are definitely different severities of build failures. The question is: is there a time when a build failure is not important?
Continue reading "Does it really matter if the build is broken?" »
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