Agile is Dead by Dave Thomas in a page

Dave Thomas, the co-author of pragmatic programmer, said he doesn’t usually test unless it’s a complex algorithm. What it means that everyone has a different approach and should not force their way. Agile became an industry.  It became unnecessarily complex. The solution suggested is the below. Agility – What to do Find out where you… Continue reading Agile is Dead by Dave Thomas in a page

Subversion

Subversion Clients As a developer to use/access Subversion, you have to use subversion client as follows. for Windows User Simple One : Tortoise SVN Plug-in for Visual Studio : ankhsvn for Mac User Simple One : svnX 1.3.2 Plug-in for Eclipse : subclipse 1.6 (be careful to choose right version. v1.6 is good for now) Subversion is… Continue reading Subversion

Best Tools for Small Business and Non Profits

What product to choose as a startup or non-profits with limited resource? I found a great article from bestvendor. In summary, dream package is a group of Google Apps (Email) QuickBooks (Accounting) Google Analytics (Web Analytics) SalesForce (CRM) Adobe CS5 (Website Design) DropBox (Storage/Backup/Virtualisation) * PayPal (Payment Processting) In Productivity, BaseCamp (Project Management) / Trello… Continue reading Best Tools for Small Business and Non Profits

Open source issue tracking systems

As of Aug 2011, I searched for web-based open source issue tracking system or project management system. There were several great softwares which have their own pros and cons. – Trello When it comes to UI, it’s simple and easy. For small project, this rocks. This is a service hosted in web, so don’t need… Continue reading Open source issue tracking systems

Installation of redmine on BlueHost

As one of the best open-source project management program redmine is quite well known one, which can be use with several version control programs like SVN. I just successfully installed redmine 1.2.1 on Bluehost after lots of trial and error. Even though there are lots of documents which explains how to do it, installing redmine… Continue reading Installation of redmine on BlueHost