After a significant amount of time and effort and the gracious help of several contributors, I’m proud to officially announce tomatoi.st.
tomatoi.st is a simple timer application that helps you implement the Pomodoro Technique. You should totally use it.
While pairing with Corey...
As alluded to by veez, the undercurrent from some of us at Hashrocket has been decidedly anti-cucumber. Here’s my brief littany:
While pairing with @wesgibbs on a project at hashrocket, we got in the habbit of ‘testing’ our migrations by doing the following:
rake db:migrate db:migrate:redo db:test:prepare
At some point; frazzled and dealing with a migration that kept breaking while running the above, I uttered: “db-db-db”, which was subsequently flipped around...
Or, how Hashrocket displays pair programming gravatars on github.
At Hashrocket, we pair program all the time. We also use git exclusively for source control. This presents a problem:...
Pair programming does present some unique problems, one that we encountered at Hashrocket was commit attribution: a commit message would be identified with one member of the pair only. This is not exactly tragic, but from the perspective of a passioniate developer, having commit credit (and accountability) is a critical and visible part...
Corey Haines at Hashrocket / RMM from Hashrocket on Vimeo.
Join us in welcoming Corey Haines (aka The Software Journeyman) to Hashrocket for some pair programing with Stephen Caudill. Corey Haines travels around the country pair...
While recently discussing if a power law applies to bugs at the ongoing seminar I sentimentally call work, I noted a corollary to Linus’s Law.
Linus’s Law states:
Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow
The corollary is:
Most bugs fall to the second pair of eyes
That is, just having one other developer look at a bug will...
One of the most persistent and pernicious stumbling blocks I see when a team is starting out with Agile1 is equating story points and velocity directly with hours.
Often this stumbling block is not apparent immediately; it often crops up after a few iterations have passed. As an example, a stakeholder who was...
I want to take a moment to elaborate on what makes a well formed commit message. I think the best practices for commit message formatting is one of the little details that makes Git great. Understandably, some of the first commits to rails.git have messages of the really-long-line variety, and I want to expand on...
