At the 2009 Electric Cloud Customer Summit we introduced SparkBuild, a free gmake- and NMAKE-compatible build tool. SparkBuild is now in public beta, and several people have asked us for some more explanation: what is SparkBuild and why should I care? I thought I’d take a crack at answering those questions, hopefully without sounding too [Read More →]

I’ve heard it said that the best programmer is a lazy programmer. I’ve always taken that to mean that the best programmers avoid unnecessary work, by working smarter and not harder; and that they focus on building only those features that are really required now, not allowing speculative work to distract them. I wouldn’t presume [Read More →]