RIF Notes #28

“Quality is the result of a million selfless acts of care—not just of any great method that descends from the heavens. That these acts are simple doesn’t mean that they are simplistic, and it hardly means that they are easy” – Uncle Bob

• Error logging and tracking done right with Raygun.io – Troy Hunt reviews RayGun.io
• Benefits of Continuous Deployment
• Technology Radar – This is extremely informative. Thoughworks evaluates technology based on whether they think its ready to adopt, trial (almost ready), assess (evaluate), or hold (not ready for use).  Interestingly, TFS is a Hold.
• Use Frequent Branches to Tell a Story and Simplify Code Reviews – Sounds familiar.
• Avoid the pick-n-mix branching anti-pattern – This also sounds familiar, in that it was something we abandon long ago.
• Unusual Ways of Boosting Up App Performance. Strings
• The JavaScript Alternatives – About things like CoffeeScript, TypeScript and Dart to make javascript easier and cleaner.
• Largest collection of FREE Microsoft eBooks ever, including: Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Office 2013, Office 365, Office 2010, SharePoint 2013, Dynamics CRM, PowerShell, Exchange Server, Lync 2013, System Center, Azure, Cloud, SQL Server, and much more – Lots of free ebooks provide by microsoft.
• “Out Of Memory” Does Not Refer to Physical Memory – Clarification on a misleading error we recently had on the Continuous integration server.
  • “An “out of memory” error almost never happens because there’s not enough storage available; as we’ve seen, storage is disk space, and disks are huge these days. Rather, an “out of memory” error happens because the process is unable to find a large enough section of contiguous unused pages in its virtual address space to do the requested mapping”