Archive for the 'Agile' Category

Rails: Database Search using ‘acts_as_ferret’

Do you need the capability to run full text based searches on your database? The Ruby on Rails plugin ‘acts_as_ferret’ will enable your application to do this.
‘acts_as_ferret’ is a Rails port to Ferret, the Ruby port of Lucene. It is an ActiveRecord mixin which adds full text searching capabilities to any Rails model.

It also caters […]

A useful presentation on using tests as documentation

Python specific, but has some good general information and principles. Check it out http://www.python.org/pycon/2006/papers/2/pycon06_agiledoc.pdf

Who is flying the Agile flag at CeBIT?

On the flight over to Hanover (which was badly delayed due to a British Airways screw up) I listened to various podcasts about Agile development methods. I became increasingly excited listening to Mary Poppendieck, Scott Ambler, Ken Schwaber, Cliff Berg and Micheal Mahemoff and reading blog entries by Martin Fowler and others each giving their […]