While CCNet Tray is a great, there is arguably even great value in a physical manifestation of KPI monitors. Jared Richardson recommends that I look at lava lamps as a build notification system, but I think there may be problems with that idea. Lava lamps take a long time to heat up. Here are some […]
Read MoreI gots me a fever, a fever for build notifications and the only prescription is CruiseControl.Net Tray. Monitoring your Cruise Control builds has never been so exhilerating, so positively thrilling! I have taken myself out of our email build notification group because of this application. The application runs in my system tray and shows a […]
Read MoreThe consumersim of Christmas has really gotten to us at che’ Starr over the last few years. We have even instituted present rules like you have to make them one before you can buy them one. This time of year is enough to really get to anyone, but I saw something tonight that really reminds […]
Read MoreRobert “Uncle Bob” Martin spoke in my workplace last week and the presentation was phenominal. His presentation was an entire day of Agile theory starting with an executive overview and progressing in detail throughout the day to culminate in live examples of Fiteness regression testing and TDD. Uncle Bob’s ability to keep an entire room […]
Read MoreWhile searching for an off shore development shop to augment our development efforts, we came up with a list of questions to ask of the candidates. What would you do to improve upon this list? Physical Environment Programmer environment, photographs are encouraged. What are the computing platforms, specifically development hardware. Describe the network access and […]
Read MoreUncle Bob Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin of Object Mentor is speaking at our company tomorrow morning. I am really looking forward to hearing the agile talk from this software icon. So far, I cannot say enough positive about him and his willingness to work with us a client. We have been able to tweak the […]
Read MoreAfter a major system rebuild, my RSS lifestyle is finally whole again. I changed everything from RSS readers to MP3 players and here is my current list of RSS tools. Podcatcher Juice, formerly iPodder. This surprisingly effective application is written in Python and just sits around pulling my favorite nerd shows at 1:00 in the […]
Read MoreCraig Schumaker over at the Polymorphic Podcast does an excellent job of lightly touching on the basics of Atlas, which he describes as an “object oriented” client side framework that also includes AJAX. I am really excite to get and play with this up and coming add-in to VS2005. Craig’s podcast is here: http://polymorphicpodcast.com/podcast/files/PolymorphicPodcast-2005-11-10.mp3 You […]
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