June 7, 2011

Inspectify has been released!

Inspectify is a new code review tool. It’s designed to be downloaded and run on your own server. Have a look.

April 27, 2011

Working with the Chaos Monkey

“Seems like insane advice at first glance. I’m not sure many companies even understand why this would be a good idea, much less have the guts to attempt it. Raise your hand if where you work, someone deployed a daemon or service that randomly kills servers and processes in your server farm.”

via Jeff Atwood at Coding Horror

Cool!

April 16, 2011

Inspectify

I’ve been working on a new project for a while – code review for teams.

The idea is that teams of developers want/need a simple way to ensure that their code gets reviewed by other people in their team (without having someone looking over your shoulder).  I think enough other people have talked about why we need code review (see below), but there hasn’t been a suitable, easy platform for doing it.

There are a few hosted code review apps, but hopefully for commercial apps you have a policy to keep source-code in-house.  So we need an installable code review app, that automatically fetches commits from a repository, and provides a simple interface to do simple code review.

Inspectify is my answer to this problem.  It’s still a wee way off, but when it’s ready, you’ll be able to install it on a basic *nix box and start reviewing your Subversion-based code (support for other SCM’s may come later).

October 28, 2010

Sysadmins: how to make the programmers love you

“Last week I wrote a piece called “Programmers: how to make the sysadmin love you“. The feedback has convinced me it needs a counterpart; something written from the perspective of the systems guy trying to get along with the dev team. Having offended all the programmers of the world (not to mention several Americans who don’t know what a fag packet is) it’s time to do the same for you systems folk.”

via mockyblog

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