Development laptop automation

A talk I gave at a python meeting in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

Transcript

1. Development laptop automation Reinout van Rees Nelen & Schuurmans (in Utrecht)
2. “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?
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. Don’t be too perfectionistic
9. Market garden Battle of Arnhem: Son bridge
10. Get replacement through Eindhoven
11. Bailey bridge: used as roof in Eindhoven station now…
12. Don’t be too perfectionistic
13. Examples • zest.releaser • checkoutmanager • dotfiles • nensskel
14. Skeleton • zopeskel, zestskel, thaskel, nensskel • example • README with checklist
15. 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”
16. checkoutmanager • co • up • st • out • Based on a config file
17. Dotfiles • Symlink ~/.something to ~/ Dotfiles/something • Private git repo?
18. 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