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Lightweight DevOps
Introducing DevOps to your organization can be done really, really simply.
First have the project team lead set up the development environment on his machine, all the while documenting how to do so. Second have a another team member follow and execute the steps. The lead and team member should discuss and review the process and make improvement. Third, have an engineer totally unfamiliar with the project follow the steps to the point where he can successfully run the automated tests in less than sixty minutes.
When this may be done successfully, it is time for a DevOps engineer to automate that process.
The Practice of Forgiveness
Forgiveness is easily practiced.
For means to move forward. Give means to allow and enable.
Every single action, word, and movement are an opportunity for you to practice forgiveness.
That is very, very cool!
Paul Gilbert
How to handle the enter key while inside of comment blocks
This post reveals a nice function comment-indent-new-line which gives you the
right kind of indentation for block comments. That got me wondering if my
enter key-binding should do different things depending upon whether or not the
cursor is inside of a comment block or not. Specifically, if it is, then call
the aforementioned function, else call the normal binding. This seems that it
might be an improvement
This post explains how to check if the cursor is inside of a comment block:
(nth 4 (syntax-ppss))
It is not nil when the point (cursor) is inside of a comment block.
Great to know.
I decided not to make this change yet, but, I wanted to capture how, here.
Teaching Fun
Whenever you see them, encourage those who are not having fun to take personal responsibility for their predicament.
Take it is an opportunity to teach them how you have fun, because they may have never learned how, and your kindness and gentleness can help you to teach them one of the most important lessons of their life.
The power of communication
Describe that which you want to achieve, with a slow rhythm, and in detailed language.
The ability, or inability to do this, will predict the outcome of your endeavor.
My definition of attitude
Attitude is how you feel despite all of the logical reasons not to feel that way.
Attitude is how you feel despite what everyone else is telling you about how you should be feeling right now.
Attitude means that you are taking personal responsibility and control of your life and how you feel instead of giving it away to something or someone else.
Every definition is a constraint
Every definition is a constraint.
Primarily they define operational limits of this reality. Even defining something to be “limitless and without constraint” is limiting because it requires either the written or the spoken form (albeit both spatial) and doesn’t allow for other possible means of communication.
The basis of most forms of science is definition, and thereby, observation.
Artistic expression is both a definition, and, an expression. Because it occurs within the operational constraints of this reality, it is by nature constraining and limiting. This is counter-intuitive, and, quite surprising. Perhaps this is already quite clear to those who have experienced things which are beyond definition?
Perhaps your are familiar with this phenomenon where in the attempt to define those things, you, quite unintentionally, tarnish and drag down those things. It is quite a bitter-sweet experience when you do want to share them, due to the sheer joy of it, and find that you simply can not.
You may have a feeling that you are not sharing, but, you must quite seriously ponder the question of “How can you withhold that which is intrinsic to every human being and is their birthright in this universe?”.
Probably Try to Avoid local-set-key
When I first learned how to set up Emacs, I really liked local-set-key because you didn’t have to know about the keymap for the mode you just had to make the call in that mode’s hook. That is simple and makes total sense. That has worked well for me for years until two things happened:
- Wanted to use prefix commands
- Re-started using Windows again on a daily basis
The former is part of the natural expansion of use and its refinement. The latter is similar, but specific to running Emacs on Windows.
The last time that I ran Emacs on Windows I did not use the Super key. Then I went off into the wilderness and use it a lot only to return and find that Windows owns lot of my keybindings. Not only were they owned, but they would not let go of them no matter how I tried! Because if this major inconvenience, I’ve got no reasonable choice other than refactoring some of my perfect bindings into something, ahem, better.
This refactoring would have been pretty easy if I’d jus done normal keybindings against keymaps, but I didn’t, I used local-set-key. So this becomes a good learning opportunity about the key-map names and additionally how, at least for myself, this is generally a bad approach because makes re-factoring harder.
The good thing is that at least up front there is a good time savings, I suppose.