a Bahá'í, software engineer, and nature lover in Austin, Texas, USA
The Elm Fork of the Trinity River has returned to its secondary banks at last and the Sam Houston Trail Park on the Campión Trail is once again accessible, after two months of flooding. Riding my bike there today, I managed to get a few good photos, which are posted on Google Photos. First six in the gallery are from last fall, but the rest are from today.
This past Friday I finally completed the “public expression” portion of the eco-theology project for the GreenFaith Fellowship. The presentation is accessible at GreenBahai.com. It addresses the following topics from an multi-faith perspective:
I’ve spent the weekend preparing a presentation on the <a href=”http://www.dallasinterfaith.org/d/faithful_call_action>Faithful Call to Action on Climate Change</a>, which I’ll be giving at the Bahá‘í Center of Irving on this coming Friday evening.
Does Visual Studio Code measure up to its close kin, Atom?
The news has been going around: “refactoring doesn’t work,” say researchers. Code quality does not improve. It isn’t worth the time and effort. Here’s why I don’t buy it — why the research is fundamentally flawed and real software groups should ignore it.
“Project T” is a temporary codename for a web application that I have begun developing off hours. Having just read The Phoenix Project, and now reading Continuous Delivery, I realized that the first step in creating a minimum viable product is to have a minimum viable process for continuous delivery, with no financial budget for that process. The solution combines a Microsoft Azure VM, GitHub, TeamCity, NuGet, Bower, Grunt, MSDeploy, and SoapUI. The result is this: as soon as I commit code to the version control system, it starts an automated chain reaction that ends with a complete install on my integration test servers.
A lightweight performance test harness for Windows console apps: PerfTestHarness on GitHub. Includes some fun use of C# 6 property initializers, string interpolation, nameof(), and expression bodied functions.
