In the beginning there was CruiseControl, the original Continous Integration tool. Most people, including myself, cut there teeth on CruiseControl. Then, over time, a couple of opensource projects started…
Weve had a little Expenses Rails app for tracking charges and funneling them back to Accounting. One of the key bits is that we can upload a picture of…
I love how easy it is to keep up with the latest and greatest of a plugin in Rails: script/plugin install -x https://some.subversion.server/plugin. Unfortunantly, if you then want to…
I recently migrated our Subversion repositories and trac sites from one server to another. This gave me the chance to reorganize our layout and authentication mechanism. I chose to…
After 7 months and 34 posts, weve outgrown Simplog. Were just finishing migrating all the content to our new WordPress blog, but Im sure youll see some bumps in…
Thanks to Pruppert, word about our iTunes deduplicate script is spreading. He posted on the Mac World Forum and had an excellent write-up on how the script differed from…
I just checked the Agenda page for CodeMash and I am on Friday just before lunch! I was worried I would be on Friday after lunch, which is always…
Just as people spend far too much time in meetings, they also spend far too much time sifting through reports trying to determine what the most important information to…
During 2006 the Apache Incubator process has really taken off. Incubator is a place for existing projects to enter the Apache Software Foundation, and build up community around them….
**Update 4/24/2011. TidySongs is now Rinse! Same great product, but new vendor with a deeper music database that seems to match better. Ive updated the links. ** *Update 5/16/2010….
Ruby on Rails once again lived up to my expectations that it is incredibly powerful, but can als cause real pain! I had a functional test that proved that…
When an IT team needs help with a big project or a new task, they will often look to outsiders for help in delivering their objectives. Oftentimes, they will…
