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Requirements Metadata Attributes – part 1

Recently I was asked to provide a suggested list of requirements management attributes (aka metadata) for a client.  I immediately went to my relatively...

2 replies - 1276 views - 01/13/11 by J.d. Baker in News

Tools for Disciplined Thinking

There is nothing in the manifesto that says we can’t write documentation if we think it’s a valuable contribution the the product. That line in the...

1 replies - 1403 views - 01/11/11 by Mike Cottmeyer in News

XFD: now with CruiseControl and TeamCity support

Happy new year! Your belated Christmas gift is a new release of XFD, our build radiator, with support for CruiseControl, and Team City: CruiseControl...

0 replies - 1697 views - 01/07/11 by Julian Simpson in News

Using Git like CVS

Tonight I moved the http://rainbowcinemas.ca sources from phpeclipse and CVS to PDT and Git. Below are some gotchas and tips for initial repo creation,...

1 replies - 6366 views - 01/04/11 by Nick Boldt in News

Manage Yourself with Measures

In 2007 I read 31 novels. In 2008 I read 19 novels. In 2009 I read 12 novels. In 2010 I read 8 novels. Do you know how I know? It’s...

1 replies - 1435 views - 01/03/11 by Jurgen Appelo in News

Daily Dose - What's New in Emacs 24?

As the nightly builds for Emacs 24 start to churn out, developers can expect some cool new features.  These features include UI changes, custom themes,...

0 replies - 27252 views - 01/03/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Apple Making 3 iPad 2s?

According to an unnamed source, Apple could be planning to release three different versions of the iPad 2 next year: Wi-Fi only, UMTS + Wi-Fi, and CDMA.  The...

0 replies - 26127 views - 12/30/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Well, Hello Github

So after my last post, I decided I would try to just setup commit emails on our git repository. I found a project called git-commit-notifier. It‘s a Ruby...

2 replies - 3889 views - 12/28/10 by Rob Williams in News

Daily Dose - No More IDEs in F#'s Future?

MonoDevelop has recently added support for the recently open sourced F# .NET programming language.  Mono is the likely steward of the language, as they are...

2 replies - 26395 views - 12/28/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Github: More on How Free Sucks

So I am really happy to have changed to Git, I already blogged about that. One of my main motivations was so I could use *Gerrit*, a code review tool that...

4 replies - 8347 views - 12/27/10 by Rob Williams in News

Daily Dose - Git Usage Spreads Through JBoss and SpringSource

A lot of interest is moving towards Git and leaving Subversion for big names in Java like JBoss and SpringSource.  Spring recently wrote two articles covering...

0 replies - 24919 views - 12/27/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Weld Extensions 3.0 Beta 1 Now Available; Renamed "Seam Solder"

Early on there was some confusion about what Weld Extensions is and how it differs from Weld, and how it fits into Seam.  Well JBoss is clearing up some...

0 replies - 24002 views - 12/21/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Freeware for generating UMLs

I was looking for a simple freeware for generating UMLs and class diagrams spesifclly. Here is some of the better ones I have found: ArgoUML open source...

19 replies - 14653 views - 12/17/10 by Avi Yehuda in News

PushToTest and Jaspersoft To Solve Web Application Performance Bottlenecks

PushToTest™, the Open Source Testing (OST) company, and Jaspersoft™, the leading provider of open source Business Intelligence (BI) solutions, announced...

0 replies - 4797 views - 12/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Announcements

Let's Kill Productivity!

Yes, let's kill productivity! Okay, not productivity but all attempts to measure the productivity of software engineers. It is a flawed, pointless, futile...

2 replies - 4049 views - 12/14/10 by Dan Pritchett in News