Development laptop automation

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Development laptop automation Reinout van Rees Nelen & Schuurmans (in Utrecht)

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“The shoemaker’s children go barefoot” • What do you develop? • Myself: philips intranet, now water management. • Do you develop for yourself? With the same care?

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How productive are you? • How well do you know your editor/IDE? • What do you do by hand? • What did you automate? • What do you learn every year?

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Disaster can strike • Scare tactics :-) • Do you use svn/git/hg for your code? • Same question: for your laptop conﬁguration? • What if you get a new laptop next week?

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Call to action • Automate your development laptop with the same care as your regular projects • Mindset 1: be explicit about it • Mindset 2: do something regularly

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Mindset 1: be explicit • Store your conﬁguration in git • Bash aliases, shell scripts, small python programs you wrote, ssh conﬁg, etc. • README that explains your setup • So… explicit instead of by accident

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Mindset 2: do something regularly • Change in your setup? Adjust README • Revisit list of oft-used apps every year • Grab latest python packages • Ask people about their setup • Automate/improve/ﬁx something every week

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Don’t be too perfectionistic

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Market garden Battle of Arnhem: Son bridge

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Get replacement through Eindhoven

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Bailey bridge: used as roof in Eindhoven station now…

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Don’t be too perfectionistic

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Examples • zest.releaser • checkoutmanager • dotﬁles • nensskel

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Skeleton • zopeskel, zestskel, thaskel, nensskel • example • README with checklist

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zest.releaser • Manual: update version number, add date to changelog header, “git tag”, up version number, add changelog header, “git push”, “git push —tags” • Automated: “fullrelease”

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checkoutmanager • co • up • st • out • Based on a conﬁg ﬁle

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Dotﬁles • Symlink ~/.something to ~/ Dotﬁles/something • Private git repo?

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URLs • https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ zest.releaser • https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ checkoutmanager • https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ dotﬁles • https://github.com/reinout/ tools/ • http://reinout.vanrees.org