August 2007
3 posts
Agile Development
Last week I was pointed at the CHAD page which told me that Andy Hunt of the Pragmatic Programmers would be in town giving a talk on “Pragmatic Agility”. Now, I’ve heard of the agile methodology and had mostly written it off as people attempting to quantify “making the right decisions”. Now, I agree with that analysis even more.
Andy Hunt was an excellent speaker. He told fun stories, looked...
Versioning, Tracking, Re-finding
I recently had someone say that versioning files could/should be done like this:
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…where the date could also be a version number.
Reasons why this is the dumbest shite I’ve ever heard:
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Versioning Systems
Programmers have known for much longer than other folks that versioning systems are the only way to...
Running cakePHP on OS X server (xserve)
Someone showed up at my site recently looking to run cakePHP on an XServe. Honestly, I’m a bit confused as to why they needed to search for such. Activating php (or upgrading it thanks to entropy.ch), reconfiguring the apache root path, and dropping in cake core are all fairly trivial tasks. Hell, you could probably skip the reconfiguring the web root altogether and just drop the content of your...