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Comment on Rediscovering ERB (without Rails) by Nowaker

Nowaker — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 21:26:55 +0000

Interesting usage of ERB. Last year I made a trick with Rails – used it to create a static website, and then just `wget` it all and publish static files. Although I am a Java developer, I love Ruby for how fast it is to develop things.

Comment on Demo Driven Development by Mathieu Berube

Mathieu Berube — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 02:58:49 +0000

Thanks for your comment Miguel.

I would like you to clarify your point about the user using the feature instead of a demo : do you mean a real customer or the Product Owner? Our demos were done with the Product Owner. Usually he had the mouse and keyboard and used the feature. However we still had to guide him, show him the strength and weakness the implementation. Our preparation was to make sure all the edge cases were covered, the database was seeded correctly and other details like that.

Which factors do you think might be forgotten by focusing on the demo?

This happened a while ago, but from what I remember the focus on the demo was for a sprint or two because we had trouble setting up the demo correctly. Our demos sucked (or so we felt). We had to get more focus on the demo. And it worked for us.

Comment on Demo Driven Development by Miguel Madero

Miguel Madero — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:39:45 +0000

Wouldn’t it be better that every story can be deployed and actually used by an end user instead of just demoed? Seems like these will cover the demo part while not the other way around.

I normally think of Demo Driven Development as an ScrumBut. I think the risk of giving too much importance to the demo is that we might overlook other factors. Not saying this is the case, but it seems a bit risky.

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Tue, 11 Jan 2011 04:50:31 +0000

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Comment on Programming is Hard, Shipping is Harder by Mathieu Berube

Mathieu Berube — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:12:06 +0000

There are lots of tools that are more complete than mine for now – for me it’s an experiment about the release process of web applications, learning new technologies and (later) add a few customized features

It’s far from being finished, consider it a development release.

Comment on Programming is Hard, Shipping is Harder by Mathieu Cousy

Mathieu Cousy — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:00:39 +0000

I found a goog tool for pomodoro technique, more advanced as you can specify you task list, configure everything…

http://code.google.com/p/pomodairo/

Comment on A Preference for Flexibility by Mathieu Berube

Mathieu Berube — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:06:28 +0000

@Martin I *might* not modify it, but I usually do. I remember modifying example #1 in example #2 many times. Usually after spending a few minutes debugging an IndexOutOfBoundsException

Comment on A Preference for Flexibility by David

David — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:58:47 +0000

100% agreed!
I also do the same for those exact reasons.

Comment on A Preference for Flexibility by Martin Carel

Martin Carel — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:00:24 +0000

On the other hand, you might never modify that code, in which case less code is easier to read! But example #2 is more modern and sexy for sure.

Comment on Programming is Hard, Shipping is Harder by Mathieu Berube

Mathieu Berube — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:43:41 +0000

The challenge is always appreciated Tremeur