by Ron Bieber on Thursday, May 28, 2009
- Hg-Git Mercurial Plugin – GitHub – Git plugin for Mercurial, that adds interoperability between the two distributed version control systems.
- git awsome-ness [git rebase --interactive] – MadBlog – Quick article describing the use of git rebase -i.
- A List Apart: Articles: Burnout – "It's taken me the better part of a year to finish writing this article, and the reasons it took that long are tied directly to the topic at hand. If anything, the last year has made it clear that we as an industry are facing increased levels of stress, illness, and exhaustion. Having learned a few things from my own battle with exhaustion and burnout, I hope they’ll benefit others who are now or may eventually be in the same situation."
- NOOP.NL: Self-Organization = Anarchy (Part 1) – Article talking about how self-organization is the norm for the universe – and software development teams.
- The Git Parable – "The following parable will take you on a journey through the creation of a Git-like system from the ground up. Understanding the concepts presented here will be the most valuable thing you can do to prepare yourself to harness the full power of Git. The concepts themselves are quite simple, but allow for an amazing wealth of functionality to spring into existence. Read this parable all the way through and you should have very little trouble mastering the various Git commands and wielding the awesome power that Git makes available to you."
- Agile methodologies aren't just for small coding projects :: SearchCIO.com.au – In this article Scott Ambler talks about how to scale agile.
- Five whys – Joel on Software – Joel talks about an outage situation and how the team evolved from "setting SLA's" to Five Why root cause analysis and a solution that wasn't quite where they started.
- Fraser Speirs – Understanding Git Submodules – Article explaining git submodules.
by Ron Bieber on Friday, May 8, 2009
- Git for beginners: The definitive practical guide – Stack Overflow – The beginnings of a "Practical Guide to Git" being authored on stackoverflow.com.
- Highest Voted "git" Questions – Stack Overflow – Quesions tagged with Git on StackOverflow.com
- InfoQ: How Many Chickens Are Too Many? – "The daily scrum is an important meeting within the Agile team. During this 15 minute session, the team members share their commitments along with the impediments blocking them from moving forward. According to Scrum, only the committed team members (pigs) are allowed to speak during these meetings. Other interested people (chickens) can join in, but they should just listen. Is there a limit on the maximum number of chickens, who could attend the daily scrums? An interesting discussion on the Scrum Development group tries to answer this question."
- Producing Open Source Software – Free book describing the Open Source development methodology and how to run an open source project. One of my favorite books on development process.
- Agile Alliance: Agile Alliance Home – Home page of the Agile Alliance.
- saplink – Google Code – "SAPlink is an open source project that aims to make it easier to share ABAP developments between programmers. It provides the ability to easily distribute and package custom objects."
- Cocoa Samurai: Distributed Version Control & Git [Part 1] – "When you start using Distributed Version Control you tend to start making a lot of branches and do many more merges, it becomes you do commits and merges when you want to vs doing them in some regularity because you fear your version control system might make things harder if you don't commit or merge now."
- Understanding Git Conceptually – "This tutorial [takes] a conceptual approach to Git. My goal will be, first and foremost, to explain the Git universe and its objectives, and secondarily to illustrate how to use Git commands to manipulate that universe."
- Compromising Quality for Schedule | Musings of a Software Development Manager – "I found myself silently cheering for Uncle Bob as he described a recent presentation where the speaker had just about given up on ever getting better code quality, because businesses didn’t value it."
- Tuning IE7 for Better Performance –
- Facebook Developers | Facebook Open Platform – "Facebook Open Platform is a snapshot of the infrastructure that runs Facebook Platform. It includes the API infrastructure, the FBML parser, the FQL parser, and FBJS, as well as implementations of many common methods and tags."
by Ron Bieber on Tuesday, January 20, 2009