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Posted in General on Oct 13th, 2009
Joel Burton, Chris Calloway, Chris Ewing and Chris Rossi (with some remote assistance from Alex Clark and Matthew Wilkes) just wrapped up an insanely productive sprint focused on improving ZopeSkel, the code generator for Plone integrators and developers. At the end of their in-depth write-up, they share some golden “lessons learned” about effective small-group sprinting. The [...]
Posted in General on Aug 31st, 2008
I stayed up rather late last night early this morning finishing Scott Rosenberg’s book “Dreaming in Code.” If you’re involved with open-source software (or software at all), you really owe it to yourself to go get a copy. It’s a great look into the real-world challenges of writing software, told through the still-ongoing story [...]
Posted in General on Dec 4th, 2007
Call me crazy, but I just checked out Microsoft’s just-out-of-beta Windows Live Writer offline blogging client, and I gotta tellya, it’s pretty nice. Score one for the kids in Redmond. It’s free and Windows-only (of course). It offers an easy-to-configure, very polished UI for writing and editing blog posts. It handles cut-and-paste from the web and [...]