Archive for Development Processes
No, I did not fall off the face of the earth, however…
it sure felt like it.
I just realized that I haven’t posted anything since Jan 17. Yep, that’s 3 months ago. Where did the time go? No excuse. Time to get back in the saddle.
Interestingly enough, what I have to say today is very close to what I said on Jan 17. I’m getting to upgrade [...]
Story Driven Development with Cucumber, RightScale and Punk Rock HR
This past week, Sean Cribbs presented “Story-Driven Development with Cucumber” at the Charlotte Ruby User Group. I’m still trying to get the hang of Ruby, but I have to admit, there are a lot of cool tools around the Ruby community, and Cucumber is no different.
Here are a couple of items that I gleaned from [...]
ZXing, MongoDB and Search Exchange
It’s been a couple of weeks since I last posted. No excuses, just didn’t do it.
Lenya got back burnered, but it’s coming back out again next week. I’ve had a number of very interesting and cool quick projects with a client that precluded me from working on the Lenya implementation. I’m really excited about attacking [...]
Fun with Lenya and Roku adds new channels
This week, I updated my Roku HD’s firmware. I’ve known for a while it was coming, but for it to come during Thanksgiving week was an extra special surprise. The first two channels I added: Revision3 and TWIT. First show that I watched: Tekzilla. I’m looking forward to spending more time digging through the new [...]
No love from Google Checkout
Ok….ok…I missed posting last week.
I have a good reason.
Honest.
Well, at least in my mind, it is.
I’ve been working with one of my clients to get another website live, which happened successfully last weekend. I spent a good part of the last couple of weeks creating the go live checklist and going through [...]
Locks on the head and the tail
It’s been one of those kinds of weeks. I’ve been working on implementing a LinkedBlockingQueue for a project and things were not working as expected. Unfortunately, I forget the simplest of rules for LBQs: there is a lock on the head and a lock on the tail. I was processing the queue using a Timer [...]
The first foray into NoSQL and my tools list
This week, I dipped my toes into the NoSQL world. Currently, I’m evaluating MongoDB for a project. It’s amazing that people are thinking this is new and revolutionary. I was doing this stuff in the late 80s with PICK, Universe, UniData, Revelation and a number of other “post-relational” databases. Back then, it was all green [...]
Do you really wanna be a hero?
This past Monday, I attended SocialFresh in Charlotte. I typically don’t spend a lot of time in the social media space, but a number of my clients are wanting to “get started” in the social media space. For me and my company, it makes sense to learn the basics and then pull in the smart [...]
Lines, nerds and bears…oh, my
Ok…that’s not really an original line, but stick with me. Hopefully it will make sense as I move through this.
Here’s the attempt at “Lines”
Remember last week I was whining about all the WordPress upgrades I had to do the previous week? There was yet another one this week (2.8.4) and it was an interesting one. [...]
Anniversaries, patches, games and the invisible failwhale
Happy Anniversary to me! In the past week, I’ve had 2 major anniversaries in my life:
20 years of marriage
1 year since purchasing my first MacBook Pro
I love my Mac, I love my wife more. (and the small voice in my head says, “right answer”)
Speaking of the MBP, OS X 10.5.8 was released this week. It’s [...]