The alpha release of our site/product developed as an open agile project has just gone live! http://tynerblain.com/nexus/ is the home page. More stats and updates below.
APR: Information Architecture – Faceted Navigation
In our previous article in the series on the development of nexus, we discussed navigation and information architecture. We identified the challenge of filtering articles by category and by level of experience (beginner / expert), while also viewing the articles along a characteristic (most-viewed, highest-rated, etc). Between both url-creation and […]
APR: Information Architecture Challenge
We have an interesting information architecture challenge as part of our agile project. We have talked about browsing and searching articles organized both by category (product management, business analysis, etc) and by level of expertise (beginner, expert). We’re also rating and reviewing the articles, which introduces the ideas of “latest”, […]
APR: Naming Our Product
We’ve come up with a name for the site we’re creating as part of our agile project. Read on to see our rationale.
Flashback: A Year Ago This Week on Tyner Blain [2006-05-12]
A look back at the best from a year ago.
APR: Security Update
Earlier this week we iterated on our agile project to assure that we have sufficient application security to meet our user’s implicit requrements. Read on for updates on our implementation of the security constraints, and progress on the next feature to be implemented.
APR: Security – Added Constraint
Last night I got some great feedback from the Austin on Rails guys who helped with the deployment technology for our project. I also got a bit of an education about website security. Based on that conversation, I’m adding a new constraint to our project – that it be secure.
First Five Capistrano “Oh Crap! Oh No!” Tips
In a slight segue from our agile project articles, here are five tips that may help other first time Ruby on Rails / Capistrano deployments. Even with the great resources available on the internet, there were some unexpected and obscure hurdles for a new-to-rails developer to get a site up […]
APR: Thanks to AustinOnRails Guys!
Thanks very much to the rock stars who helped us out tonight. Some of these rockstars are former coworkers of mine, and I believe are all active in austinonrails.org. – next meeting is Tuesday (see the website for more details). In alphabetical order – everyone chimed in to fix, coach […]