Trying Out Basecamp

I launched a Basecamp project today. Nothing fancy, just a little project site for our company’s core values committee. Yes, we fall into the Ken Blanchard Managing by Values type corporation or at least we’re trying. Anyway I’m a sucker for trying to make things better over just complaining and besides the theme this year [...]

Relying on RAD 6.0 for Deployments

Up until we brought in the suite of IBM Websphere tools and many of the developers migrated over to Rational Application Developer 6.0 (RAD), we were doing all deployments via ant. I confirmed last week that we’ve switched over in the last 9 months to almost complete reliance on building WARs or EARs from RAD [...]

Nice GUI Tools MySQL Mac OS X

I’m going through installing MySQL 5.0 on my G5 iMac so I can progress through the Agile Web Development with Rails book. One of my brothers is going though it and wants to bounce issues off me as he comes across them. Anyway I knew the installer had gotten very easy and that it included [...]

Baby Steps to TDD Adoption

After 23 days into the first Sprint on one of my teams projects, I finally got a very rewarding email from Cruisecontrol with the following message:

Unit Tests: (89) All Tests Passed

The comment on the CVS file,

1EmployerManagerTest

, was simply:

first test cases

The back story is I had been charting the unit [...]

Trying Out Basecamp

I signed up for a free one project account for Basecamp today and setup a small project for my company’s core values committee. So far it seems really nice, easy collaboration with a small team. The real test will come over the next few weeks if it actually gets used. I love these sorts of [...]