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November 2007 - PhatBoyG (Chris Patterson)

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  • First Iteration, Week 1

    On Monday, we started our first iteration. We spent the previous two weeks discussing the process, preparing stories, and learning how we can adapt extreme programming (XP) practices into our development process. We kicked off with iteration planning...
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  • Ruby (on Rails)

    Last week, I started looking into using WATIR for web application testing. In the short amount of time I spent with the tool, I got an initial look at Ruby. Aside from seeing it here or there, this was the first time I actually wrote any Ruby code --...
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  • User Story Writing

    Since we had our agile fishbowl at work, we've moved ahead with adapting agile practices in our development process. For our projects, we're working on creating user stories to fill our product backlog. I've read several threads on writing...
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  • Agile Fishbowl

    Earlier in the week, I posted about an introduction to agile development that I gave at work. Afterwards, I talked to several of those that attended and figured out that I left a lot of things out of the presentation. This was partly due to some inadequate...
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  • FTP Editing with TextMate using Cyberduck on Leopard

    While I spend most of mine developing applications with .NET in Visual Studio 2005, there are times when I want to tweak a site built in PHP/MySQL. Since all my sites are hosted on GoDaddy, I don't have SSH access into the server. This leaves FTP...
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  • Greetings and Salutations

    I just wanted to give a shout out to the guys at Los Techies for inviting me to join the site. I'm just now getting things up and running (and testing MarsEdit with Community Server with this post) so I can easily post content to the site. I met many...
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