A Discipline of Errors

In a previous life, I had to write a discipline of exceptions for the users of a library I had built for c++ games. In this incarnation, I'm working in Go, and need to do something of the same sort, so here's my pitch: Some errors are typos by the user.  Others are things they've…

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De-indexing, unexpectedly solved

Contrary to our previous expectations, PIPEDA already guarantees a person the right to de-index material which is inaccurate, outdated or misleadingly incomplete, even if the publisher has a legally credible reason for not taking down the original document. We failed to see this because we all looked at the very public ongoing suits involving Google.…

a series of pipes …

No, no, this is for illustrating bandwidth, not a deranged description of the internet by a mad trapper. This week's problem Recently I was in a discussion of pipeline performance with a number of folks, ranging from a networking engineer, to a developer and to some dev/ops folks. We were trying to compare a bunch…

My submission to the CRTC re website blocking

I am a published author on technical subjects, and therefore a beneficiary of copyright. I  have also been a close follower of the debates around website blocking and de-listing that culminated in Google Inc. v. Equustek Solutions Inc., 2017 SCC 34 (CanLII). I would like to suggest that the CRTC not support an extra-legal mechanism for…

Waterfall as a failure-hiding algorithm

Imagine that you've been handed a death-march project and you need time to arrange a transfer or a new job, before the project fails. If your company isn't natively committed to agile, you can use the argument of "adding rigor and planning" to justify switching to waterfall, and then use waterfall to hide the failure…

Other things to use a load generator for

Along with load testing, my projects use a generated load for: Profiling Where does the program spend it’s time when it’s actually doing a production load? That’s not the same as where it goes doing unit tests! Code coverage What part of the code is unreachable by paying customers? Why are we paying for code…

To Continuous Integration / Deployment add Continuous Testing

I've had good experiences with BDD (behavior directed development) based on the "behave" python implementation, and wanted to try a go version. In the process of trying out tools, I discovered that the goConvey team had also provided a continuous-testing daemon that didn't wait until I did a git push, but instead did a test…