Re: [tlug] TLUG Site with Hakyll Update

[Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com>]

On 17/3/2019 2:40 PM, Curt Sampson wrote:
> > Ah...  Yes, quite true.  I mistakenly assumed that CMS' were those
> > that were built on databases, but indeed, MySQL isn't the only way
> > to manage content.
>
> Yes; this is really about stepping back and thinking of the goal,
> rather than the implementation. The same problem has cropped up with
> "continuous integration". A lot of developers seem to have heard about
> the idea of CI only since the advent of automated CI systems (Jenkins,
> etc.) in the late 2000s and so they assume that CI means "automated
> independent build robot," but actually the whole idea of CI started
> long before that (starting to come to broader attention in the late
> 90s, with Extreme Programming, I think) and I've worked on tons of
> projects with multiple full integration tests done every day and yet
> no automation on it.


Quite right!  I often feel out of touch with terms like 
"continuous integration" since they came about after I went 
to school (well, maybe it was already used in practice; but 
it wasn't mentioned in class...or I fell asleep during that 
lecture...).  I'm still "in education", but I'm so far into 
biology that on some days, my only dose of computing is the 
TLUG mailing list.  :-)

Indeed, many of the techniques we hear about now appear 
better than sliced bread, but they are often an improvement 
(we hope!) on something we've known about long before.  All 
the buzzwords and the eyerolling ("Oh!  You don't know about 
that?") hide the fact that technology is a continuum.  Few 
things appear completely out of nowhere.

Ray