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Comment on The Meaning of Guru by Hugh

Hugh — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:32:58 +0000

could it just be that you make light of every situation

Comment on Story Cards Versus Planning Software by Joe

Joe — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:40:37 +0000

Hi Steve,

We’re actually using a heavily customised version of JIRA, along with the Greenhopper extension. I still vastly prefer the ability to actually hold physical cards in my hand, but the reality of distributed development teams means that this is not really possible.

Cheers,
Joe

Comment on Story Cards Versus Planning Software by Steve A

Steve A — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:33:36 +0000

Hi Joe,

I landed on this page while looking for some Agile planning software for a new project. Don’t stop there! What was the software? Did you and your team ever find something that worked for you? Enquiring minds need to know!

Keep up the good work,

Steve

Comment on CITCON ‘09: Better Ant Builds by Better Apache Ant Builds

Better Apache Ant Builds — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:38:21 +0000

[...] We had a vigourous discussion of dependency management. Chris asks for discipline. Andy points out that you can end up with integration hell. Maven’s release plugin can allegedly resolve dependencies too late in the QA process and end up changing the release candidate. Chris complains that it can be hard to rebuild later when you depend on the latest version of a dependency. Joe did his own wrote-up here. [...]

Comment on Singletons are Evil 2: the Rant by Paul

Paul — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:49:57 +0000

I wish I’d read this (and the links in your previous post) the day before yesterday. I had an interview yesterday where three of the four interviewers asked me about Singleton. I explained what it were but mentioned that I barely, if at all, use Singletons – in fact I couldn’t remember the last time I’d coded one myself.

But I struggled in explaining why I don’t use the pattern. I used Singletons a lot when I started coding but over time developed an aversion, and seemed to always find ways to do what I wanted to do without a Singleton (multithreading and subclassing were a couple of problems I mentioned) – and I don’t find it aesthetically pleasing, although I didn’t say that.

This has clarified what I knew instinctually and I now have a nice spiel showing its problems.

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Comment on CITCON ‘09: Better Ant Builds by Better Apache Ant Builds | The Build Doctor

Better Apache Ant Builds | The Build Doctor — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:29:24 +0000

Comment on Ant Script Library 1.1.0 Released by AnthillPro Blog

AnthillPro Blog — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:15:12 +0000

Ant Script Library 1.1.0 Released…

I recently blogged about 3 Alternatives to Writing Ant Script from Scratch. One of the options I listed was Ant Script Library and over the weekend a new version, Ant Script Library 1.1.0 was released. For a summary of change changes check out Joe’s b…

Comment on Detecting Cycles using JDepend and Ant by Hugh

Hugh — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:00:34 +0000

Why not just get out of the habit of lumping too many packages into one src tree?

Comment on Trends in Build Metrics by Joe

Joe — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:19:02 +0000

Hi Nick, I’m quite impressed! Clover has certainly advanced a lot since I last looked. I hadn’t realised Clovers’ trend reporting had improved so much.

I’ve previously only been looking at adding non-commercial modules to ASL, because it makes it very easy for me to distribute an “all-in-one” download. However, it certainly wouldn’t be too hard to add a module to integrate Clover, with instructions on how to configure it.

I might get in contact later to discuss how to add it in to ASL. It will probably be much later, though, as I have some deadlines over the next few weeks and months (not to mention CITCON!)