Mark is currently the tech lead for the BBC News Frameworks team; the author of Pro Vim (published by Apress) and Programming in Clojure (self published with LeanPub)
Mark’s technical interests are wide and varied: *nix tools, Clojure, Go, Rust, JRuby and functional programming. Along with promoting solid object-oriented principles, microservices architecture, AWS services and distributed/concurrent systems design.
Outside of the tech world Mark plays guitar, practices a myriad of martial arts (jiu-jitsu, ishinryu karate and kickboxing) and is a pretty mean ballroom dancer.
My hope is for you to see that Make is an automation/orchestration tool that can be used in place of other modern build tools, and will help to strengthen your understanding and ability to use the terminal/shell environment (which is a big plus in my opinion, and helps open up many avenues of technical progression). Whole books have been written on the topic of Make and writing Makefiles so Mark will leave it up to you to investigate further beyond this post if he manages to kindle your interest.
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In this article Mark McDonnell will go through all of the steps he took to write an open-source gem named Sinderella (available on GitHub) and how he prepared it for release as a gem via RubyGems. He’ll also show you how to set up your tests to run through a continuous integration (CI) server using the popular Travis CI service, and how to use Coveralls to measure the code coverage of your tests and to obtain a statistical history of your commits.
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In this article, Mark McDonnell will go over the techniques required to build a command line tool using Node.js and PhantomJS (this is just one example of the sort of command line tools you can develop with Node.js’ many features). Always consider automating the process with a CLI tool the next time you find yourself performing a repetitive task.
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