Simple vs “Simple”
F has two key features that makes the code very compact. Significant whitespace and forced compilation order.…
2015
Rebootcamp
I have been saying a bunch of things, repeating what others say, mostly, but never actually internalised what they really meant. After a week with Fred Georgehttps://twitter.com/fgeorge52 and Tom Scotthttps://twitter.com…
Powershell woes
Trying to orchestrate and automate distributed tests with powershell leads to things such as using remote powershell or psexec to start tests on VMs and to use PSDrives to set up tests and collect logs.…
UTF-8
Having grown up in a society evolved beyond the confines of 7-bit ASCII and lived through the nightmare of codepages as well as cursed the illiterate that have so little to say they can manage with 26 letters in their al…
Powershell
I am extending some tests we are running in powershell. It is used to validate that the chef configs we are setting up so that all moving parts are running.…