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.
Lists / Software development
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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 […]
Agile / Agile Project: Ratings / Software development
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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 […]
Agile / Agile Project: Ratings / Software development
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APR: Screenshots – Build 0060
Download the screenshots of the first iteration (build 0060) of the ratings site in this article.
Agile / Agile Project: Ratings / Software development
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APR: Fighting With Deployment Issues
Sorry about not going live over the weekend. I’ve been fighting with some deployment issues in getting things running on our host server. In some sense, this is to be expected, as we’ve never done it before, and there is a whole lot of new technology for us. So, we’ve […]
Flashback
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Flashback: A Year Ago This Week on Tyner Blain [2006-05-05]
A look back at the best from a year ago. Sorry about the one day delay.
Agile / Agile Project: Ratings / Product Management / Software development
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APR: First Prototype Almost Done
The first prototype is almost done – I just need to add a couple presentation elements (listing articles by date submitted, highest scoring). When I get the site up (I still need to read how to use Capistrano to deploy a Rails site), we’ll open it up for a few […]
Agile / Agile Project: Ratings / Software development / Testing
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APR: Prototype Update
Just a quick update on the prototype for our agile project. We’ve dramatically improved test coverage, implemented authentication-restriction for some functionality, and refactored a litte of the code. Read on for the latest stats on coverage and testing.
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APR: Initial Prototype Progress
Made some progress on the prototype for our agile project, getting Users and Articles (see the domain model) mostly implemented and partially tested, and some other parts of the application completed. Ruby has some interesting features for tracking statistics. Read on if you’re interested in that sort of thing.