Build Analytics - better development understanding
Working with small teams is a lot of fun and I find it fairly easy to keep track of what is happening with version control and build systems. Errors and failures don’t come up that often and …
Software Development
lazybuilder v0.3
The idea for lazybuilder came up during a recent coding dojo doing code kata. We were using Vim and a separate terminal to run the tests. Switching back and forth between two windows when trying to …
Open Source project durations
During a recent discussion about open source development we wondered how long these projects lasted. In particular if there was a rapid drop off in activity. One of the great things about recent open …
Create MySQL database with Capistrano
I was playing about with Capistrano over the weekend. I wanted to automate the deployment of a Rails application to my server. The server was (I thought) just about ready to accept the app but I did …
Agile Software Development and Golf
 Faced with the question ‘What do you do?’ from family and friends is more challenging than it should be. Most other …
It always takes a second
Why do application developers think that adding more functionality is always a good thing for the user? When I first started working on GUI applications (Windows 1.0) we worked very hard to get …