Monthly Archives: September 2008

“We can’t afford to *not* take an agile approach”

Posted on September 12, 2008 by Alon Salant

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 … Continue reading →

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Absolutize for jQuery

Posted on September 11, 2008 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

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Make the things you do often fast and easy

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Christian Nelson

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 … Continue reading →

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Rewrite or Rescue

Posted on September 5, 2008 by Alon Salant

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 … Continue reading →

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Java Database Migrations

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Christian Nelson

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 … Continue reading →

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