Red Squirrel Reflections
Dave Hoover explores the psychology of software development
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Red Squirrel Reflections
Dave Hoover explores the psychology of software development
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Fri, 20 Apr 2007Gareth joined me in the d'oh! club today when I revealed to him the revelation that Ryan provided me back in January. Ruby has variable scoping, meaning that this code works just fine:if false a = 1 end puts a # nilUp until Ryan revealed this to me, I had been merrily (and needlessly) declaring my variables outside the control structures that defined them. Maybe Gareth and I are the only ones who weren't aware of this aspect of Ruby (and many other dynamic languages), but just in case, I thought I'd share it with you. Mon, 16 Apr 2007Tomayko on Scaling with ActiveRecord Ryan says:Frameworks don't solve scalability problems, design solves scalability problems.I agree. Using a tool that gets out of your way (like ActiveRecord) gives you the power to design your own solutions with minimal accidental complexity. via Obie Thu, 05 Apr 2007Heading to D.C. to demonstrate One-Size-Fits-One Tyler and I will be presenting the fruits of some of Obtiva's Rails work at Agile 2007. We have delivered several planning and tracking tools for software development teams using Rails over the last six months. Through these engagements, we discovered that Rails proficiency and Agile coaching are a killer combination for creating planning tools that you can adapt alongside your process. While there are plenty of one-size-fits-all agile planning tools out there, they often do too much, too little, or can't adapt to your needs. If you're an agile team using planning and tracking software (rather than Excel or index cards), you need software that's actually soft, like an agile process.If you follow a methodology out of the box, you will have one that fits some project in the world, but probably not yours. --Alistair Cockburn, Agile Software Development |
