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Pair programming explained!

Here’s the slides I used to explain pair progamming to my peeps – whew! Pair programming looks like fun. We’ll be doing it next week, so more on this later!! Before I forget (and I do it a lot), here’s the link to the file

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Pair Programming – I Drive, You Show the Way

Ever gone on a road trip – alone? Not much fun is it? With a Big Mac in your mouth, you’ve got to have one eye on the road, one hand on the steering wheel, the other eye on a map, and the other hand clutching it. Now that’s a feat even unicycle riding, ball [...]

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Rails 2.1 script/dbconsole

It’s been a while since i posted anything up on this blog. Meanwhile, our programmer fadhli, has been busy – in the right way of course. Here’s a link to his own blog for a post that talks about rails 2.1′s new script that helps manage your database… And i promised some posts on agile [...]

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Global Email Settings in Rails

I was running the functional test and didn’t realize it was sending actual emails from my data fixtures. However, I did learn how to globally set the email settings so not to send the emails out during tests. If you want to use this, create a file called global_email_settings.rb (or whatever you want to name [...]

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Much more than Android

Here’s a link to a blog with a Youtube video link talking about Google’s much awaited Android – sorta like a phoneOS… But the keynote spells out more than that, and Vic Gondotra, one of Google’s VPs, does a good job of explaining things… and of where Google’s headed with the internet and with world [...]

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Git Cheat Sheet

What’s Rails without Git version control right? Here’s a cheatsheet on Git by Jan Kruger from http://jan-krueger.net/git I thought I knew it all already… well… never hurts to learn… that is, until you suffer from CM (yeah, that’s cranial meltd-… i know you know it already!)

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Prototype and Scriptaculous? OMG!!!

You really know you’ve got cranial meltdown when you got that really dull throbbing at the back of your head… but peeling your eyes away from the screen is just torture – “Gotta get this thing solved by sundown!!! “&%#$(^%&*@$%$!!” – you don’t want to, no… cannot possibly, read another word of tutorials, but you [...]

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7 do’s and 3 don’ts for creating web products

hey hey… really slow day today, so went surfing the www… and stumbled upon this: http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2008/05/seven-dos-and-three-donts-for-creating.html It’s good! no me toos… no me toos… no me toos… ok, got it!

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1st half of wall is up!!

Well, here’s our first foray into the Project Wall for our projects. Heading out for lunch now…. can’t think without food!!

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Project Wall

Alright, we just finished a Release Plan meeting – more like hangout than meeting – so I’m gonna start with a Project Wall for this project. Picture shows the format I’m thinking of using. Comments are welcome this time… just no tomatoes… Real life pictures just as soon as the wall comes up….

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