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Development laptop automation

Development laptop automation

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

Reinout van Rees

November 11, 2014
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  1. “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?
  2. 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?
  3. 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?
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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”