My First Plugin
Working at a small company like OSC allows for group bonding “work” activities such as RailsRumble, which create a good working environment and helps develop our skills. If you…
Software Theology
You might be aware of its existence, even if only on a subconscience level. It might even be a scary thought that Software Cults exist or worse that you…
FutureRuby: Characters Welcomed
To celebrate my one year in the “real world”, I went to Toronto to attend the FutureRuby conference. The format of the conference is consistent with all other conferences…
Fill out my survey on Agile and I’ll make you famous
Well … famous in one room of a conference at least. I just posted a google form survey looking for feedback on how people are “selling” the use of…
Upcoming OSC appearances
In prepping for tomorrows presentation on Social Media for the Shenandoah Ruby Users Group, Jennifer Till asked me where else we were going to be appearing at. I feel…
Using Scrum on grad school projects
Last week I finished Module 1 of the UVa McIntire School of Commerce grad school program Im in, for an MS in Management of Information Technology. It was a…
Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server to be published in July
The book Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server by David Smiley and OSCs own Eric Pugh will be published next month from Packt Publishing. You can find out more about…
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 more Agile CIA?
This past weekend was my first as a graduate student at the University of Virginias McIntire School of Commerce, where I am working on a Masters degree in Management…
Zend and ExpressionEngine Working Together
Have you ever tried to make two technologies working together? Has it worked well for you? Was it easy, out of the box type of task that took you…
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…