Posts tagged with tech

• kddbot: JIRA to Confluence automation

  Feb 14, 2018

  TL;DR: I implemented a small working poc that shows how to automatically create a Confluence page when a Jira ticket is created.

• One script to version all

  Dec 20, 2017

  This is just a fun hacking post. I put together a script that is able to handle all versioning strategies that I mentioned about in the post about versioning.

• On versioning

  Dec 18, 2017

  According to Wiktionary, the word version means “a specific form of variation of something”. In computing, it’s “a particular revision of something” (e.g. software). The word has French and Latin roots. The Greek translation, έκδοση, can also be translated as publication.

• Automatic versioning of npm packages

  Aug 20, 2016

  When you are the maintainer of an npm package, you need to do some administrative work around its versioning. When you release a new version, you need to make sure the package.json is updated, the package is correctly uploaded to npm registry, the git repository is tagged accordingly and so on. You shouldn’t be doing these things manually if you can automate them.

• Functional Testing - First steps towards a framework

  Jul 9, 2016

  Before we go any further, let’s take a break and add a bit of a structure to our functional tests. This will allow us to reduce the code we have to write for each test. We’ll also start thinking about how to organize the tests into folders and files.