Does the customer know what they can get?
I really enjoyed watching this InfoQ post on “A Customer’s Perspective of an Agile Team” because its good for people for like us, people who build stuff, to keep an eye on how we are perceived by our customers.
The timing of this talk was spooky for me. Recently, I’ve been running a [...]
Do you test? If not, why not?
First off, don’t take the question as a challenge. It’s funny how this question has a tendency to provoke developers into shields up mode. That is not my intention. I’m actually very interested in your honest answer to this question. Honestly!
Let me give you my answer to that question. As [...]
Mac OS X Desktop Authoring Clients
I’m new to the whole mac os X world. So after a quick google for a desktop authoring client, I found out that I need to pay. But before I do, I’m going to trial the shortlist.
At the moment, i’m going with ecto and this is my first post. Let’s see how [...]
No blogging…
Everything went to pot over the last couple of weeks. Moving out of the rental property proved to be a mightier than thou task. To top that, our landlord is playing silly buggers with our deposit. I have a meeting with him tonight, but I’m not holding my breath…
So, where does this leave Ruby? Well, [...]
Meta Programming in Ruby – Part One
def warning
This is written by a Java programmer currently learning Ruby. It’s really a note to myself. I’ve found the best way learn something, is to write about it. Please, those in the know, I would appreciate comments on glaring errors and/or omissions…
end
So, there I was happily stepping through the on-line version of Programming Ruby (currently [...]
I spy a Mac
The winds are changing…
Here I am at 05:00 GMT, having uninstalled Napster, researching MacBook Pros, installing the latest iTunes on my windows laptop that irritates me now, playing around with containers in Ruby using the latest nighly build of the Netbeans Ruby IDE (19Mb).
The Netbeans Ruby IDE has intellisense and hover over docs. Two of THE most important development [...]
Ruby – The language of choice?
Okay, I have caught the Ruby bug. It’s like an itch, the more I scratch it, the more it needs to be scratched. Ruby is a great language. That’s a fact. Rails is a great web framework. That’s a fact. Somewhat over-hyped at the moment, but Rails will find it right place soon enough.
However, I’m more [...]
