MonkeyCI: Super light-weight Continuous Integration for small teams
At OSC, we have a well developed methodology that we apply to our client work, and one of the core tenets is using Continuous Integration to ensure our code…
A Scrum take on “Metrics and Analysis in Companies at Different Maturity Levels of the CMMI”
Last month Scott, Arin, and myself road tripped to attend the Richmond SPIN meeting, where Kris Puthucode of the Software Quality Center gave a talk on “Metrics and Analysis…
Time for a Time Based Database (TBDB)?
Yesterday Arin Sime and I saw Jean Bauers presentation on developing the Early American Foreign Service Database that is part of her disseration attempting to identify why the Foreign…
A new deployment tool for the Rails world?
I think there is an opportunity for an alternative to Capistrano for managing deployments in the Rails world…. Jamis Buck recently blogged that that he was exhausted and done…
Indexing Information about people needs a “time axis”
I bet most people have done the vanity search on Google for themselves, I know I have. The problem with most indexing systems is that they go out and…
ExpoQA Integracion Continua Wrap Up
Last Friday I had the huge honor of presenting at ExpoQA 2008 in Madrid on the topic of Continuous Integration, or maybe I should say Integracion Continua since I…
ISO Standards Talk at Expo QA
Stuart Reid of Testing Solutions Group gave a presentation on the new ISO standard for testing. While ISO standards are not normally my cup of tea, I was interested…
Storytelling Session at Expo QA 2008
Karen N. Johnson gave the keynote after lunch on the topic of Story Telling. I love these kind of topics that at first dont seem very related to our…
Live blog of Keynote at Expo QA 2008
You know Agile is becoming prevalent when the keynote of a conference about testing in the more traditional sense of testing major applications used by airlines, banks, and other…
Keynote Live blog of DoD Open Tech
Note: This post was delayed a couple weeks. Today Scott Stults and myself traveled up to DC to exhibit and attend the DoD Open Technologies Conference. We attended last…
Trip Report: Shenandoah Ruby User Group
Last week four of us from RubyCodeJam took the trip over the mountain to Harrisonburg, VA to join ShRUG for the evening. Alex Herron had arranged for Rich Kilmer…
Leveraging Multimedia for Learning
A couple months ago I served on the CBIC Innovation Awards research committee. I was able to sit in on an interview with Beth White from Western Albemarle High…