“We can’t afford to *not* take an agile approach”
We’re spending a couple days next week with developers at one of our clients to practice agile and more specifically test driven development. In preparation I’ve been exchanging emails with one of their leads on what he is hoping they will get out of this time. He’s a great developer who has recently been exposed …
Absolutize for jQuery
We’re using jQuery for one of our current projects. Today I found myself in an IE situation that could be solved by using the prototype librarie’s absolutize method. I couldn’t find any equivilent implementation that I liked in jQuery so I went ahead and ported absolutize from prototype to jquery. Download Here It can be …
Make the things you do often fast and easy
Many of our projects are ‘greenfield’ and we have the opportunity to do things the way we like. By working on new projects every few months, as opposed to one project over the course of years, we have lots of opportunity to easily tweak and tune the way we do things. Not all of our …
Rewrite or Rescue
Java has been the tool of choice for enterprise application development for many organizations for over 10 years. We are seeing more and more applications that are aging and suffering for it. We have worked with several recent clients to breathe new life in to these legacy applications so they can evolve and grow with …
Java Database Migrations
News: v0.9.9-m2 has been released! A while back, I wrote to introduce the first incarnation of the Carbon Five Database Migration tools, a simple though powerful framework for applying discrete changes to a database and tracking which changes have been applied to a specific database. It was inspired by Rails’ Migration support. We’ve made a …