Scrum War Stories Recap
Last night we had wonderful participation for our first Scrum War Stories dinner, with 9 folks from 7 different organizations showing up at West Main. The discussions we had…
Capturing Rake return codes
Based on Martin Fowlers whole pitch on declarative versus imperative builds, I converted a basic Ruby script into a Rake based script. However, the one gotcha I hit was…
Corrupting JRuby to My Pythonic Ways
Last week I downloaded the source to JRuby and began poking around its source. My hope is that eventually I can convince it that converting Ruby source to Python…
Turning Waterfall Contracts into Scrum Contracts
This Monday we were fortunate to hear Dr. Jeff Sutherland give a presentation on Scrum at our monthly Neon Guild meeting. He was going to be doing some training…
Scrum War Stories is coming!
Come share your experiences with implementing Scrum with your peers at West Main Seafood next Wednesday, May 9th from 5:30 to 8. Over beer and dinner well share hard…
RSpec simplifies communications?
At CITcon, I learned a lot about RSpec, a Ruby library for writing out specifications that is used in BDD: Behavior Driven Development. This has got me to thinking…
OpenWFEpy and Dynamic Languages Toolkit
As I noted in an earlier post, I just started a project called OpenWFEpy. Its a Python port of the OpenWFE workflow engine, and if youd like to be…
CITcon 2007: Code Metrics
Notes from the Code Metrics session: What kind of code metrics do you collect? Complexity Coverage Dependencies Documentation Code Style of unit tests, line of code Code Duplicates Volatility…
CITcon 2007 Notes
Im at CITcon (pronounced kitcon) 2007 in Dallas/Ft Worth. There are around 60 people here from all across the United States, including some of the heavy hitters of the…
CITcon 2007: Retrospective
Its been an incredible day of meeting amazing people who are doing amazing things. Being with 40 of my peers in the CI field for a day and a…
CITcon 2007: RSpec is the new Test::Unit
My first session was entitled RSpec is great of what? and talked about a tool that helps you do “Behavior Driven Development”. The key difference between RSpec as a…
Parsing Ruby for Porting
Ive recently started a research project to port a Ruby workflow engine (OpenWFEru) to Python. I thought that if I could write a basic Ruby parser I could at…