A recent post on the Scrum Development list detailed a way of dealing with bugs in scrum. While it’s a bit unconventional, in that the sprint backlog changes mid-sprint, I’ve got say I like it. Might even be adaptable to dealing with other priorities changing mid-sprint (genuine new, urgent, user stories) which is more likely to happen to me.
My entirely arbitrary and prejudiced selection of the best of RejectConf at RailsConf Europe.
list_for a rails plugin to help with displaying sortable lists.
macistrano a native mac application for running capistrano.
braid does for git repositories what piston does for svn repositories.
conductor makes it easier to deal with rails actions that update more than one object.
Most entertaining presentation: Definitely Matthew Rudy with his plugin make_specs_better.
The quote is new to me, the concept is not.
The single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make: rewrite the code from scratch. (Joel Spolsky)
I’ve got mixed feelings about it. I agree that rewriting software from scratch is a painful process, so it’s good to see that affirmed. On the other hand, someones just given the thumbs down to the project that’s occupied the last 2 years of my life.
Still, the project is pretty much complete. Let’s hope we’re the exception to the rule.
A few links if you want to follow what’s going on at RailsConf Europe.
Technorati, Google Blog Search, Flickr and
delicious.
I’ll update this post if I find more or better searches.
For some time now I’ve been putting about the idea in my company that we should have a smarter way of managing application exceptions. But the idea has never floated to the top of the pile.
Now there are two sites (maybe more) offering this as a feature. They both appear to collate stats on exceptions from your rails application, so that you can easily spot the difference between exceptions that bug your users every hour of the day, the ones that happen once in a blue moon, the ones that occur right after code deployment, etc.
They are getexceptional and hoptoad.
Look forward to playing with them.
