On Testing, Patterns & Learning
I’m currently reading Brian P. Hogan‘s book ‘Write Better with Vale‘, about Vale (a command line tool to ease follwing style guides in prose text).While intended for prose text (as far as I know), Vale can also process any text file, including code. When I tried to copy & paste commands from the epub version… Continue reading →
In preparation for this year’s Advent of Code, I’m looking back on the past years, collecting a few statistics. In some cases, I chose Graphviz to visualise the situation and support finding a solution to the puzzle at hand.Here’s an image for an example data set for one day in 2022: The full view of… Continue reading →
Here’s my tip to start contributing to Open Source: Dare to make even tiny improvements. Probably smaller than that. This one for #Rails fixes the formatting of a link in Markdown: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/44044/. It’s small: Here’s another, even smaller one: https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems-mirror/pull/82 Both contributions were in the documentation, rather than the project’s code.…
This is another blog entry in the #ReminderToSelf category. I got a new MacBook an wanted to change its hast name since I find “Stephan’s Mac” not terribly inspiring. Since joining the Oceanography department at the University of Bremen (years, nearly two decades ago), I find ocean names are the way to go. — Even more… Continue reading →
The Context While preparing a Git repository for my tutorial “The Disappearance of J. T. Womblegast — A Git Tutorial” for the Agile Testing Days 2024, I wanted to set the commit and author date for commits explicitly. In most cases, these dates are identical. Still, they can be different, as the author and committer… Continue reading →
At Agile Testing Days 2024, I offer a full-full day tutorial, ‘The Disappearance of J. T. Womblegast — A Git Tutorial‘ (on 19. Nov.). As the name suggests, the tutorial is about working with Git. But it’s also a mystery journey about the disappearance of some J.T. Womblegast who strangely left nothing but a Git… Continue reading →
The community-written book ‘Software People … Work From Home — Insights & Experiences From Planet Earth‘ is now complete. It contains contributions from 34 people and 28 countries (in alphabetical order): I thoroughly enjoyed ‘managing’ this writing project: Talking to so many people from so many countries, figuring out a good way to generate preview PDF… Continue reading →
This is another note to my future self. For a project, I wanted to address a given XML node of which I knew the name with something that resembled a path in a folder structure. Let’s say the XML file in question is this completely contrived example in a file called ‘file.xml’: I needed to… Continue reading →