Written by Sarah Mei
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on Apr. 14, 2017
Disclaimer: I do not build database engines. I build web applications. I run 4-6 different projects every year, so I build a lot of web applications. I see apps with different requirements and different data storage needs. I’ve deployed most of the data stores you’ve heard about, and a few that you…
Written by Sarah Mei
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on Apr. 14, 2017
This weekend there was another inappropriate presentation at a technology conference. This is sadly not a new phenomenon. But in my work with RailsBridge over the last four years, I have found the secret to preventing these types of talks. I am not talking about anti-harassment policies, or speaker…
Written by Sarah Mei
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on Apr. 14, 2017
Note: this is the first in a series of technical posts about Diaspora’s software architecture and code, and is a slightly modified version of the original on the Diaspora blog. If you have topics you’d like to see covered in future installments, please let me know. A single installation of the Dias…
Written by Sarah Mei
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on Apr. 14, 2017
Diaspora uses CruiseControl.rb to run our continuous integration server. CC.rb is on Rails 2.3, but the applications it’s building are on Rails 3, which means I occasionally run into … weirdness. Last week, for example, I wanted to speed up our builds by upgrading Bundler to 1.0.10 and RubyGems to…
Written by Sarah Mei
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on Apr. 14, 2017
I’ve been helping out with the Diaspora project, an open source social network that gives you control over your own data. When I first started poking around the codebase a few months ago, they’d just started writing a few cucumber selenium integration tests – which of course I want to encourage! –…
Written by Sarah Mei
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on Jun. 27, 2015
A few months ago, I wrote up a piece for mid-level and senior devs about how to usefully pair program with a less-experienced partner. You can find it on the DevMynd blog. You may also be interested in my article here on my first two months of full-time pairing, written back in the day when I had…