Category Archives: Agile

My First Lesson In Programming

Today I stumbled upon the first program I ever wrote. It’s an interesting story looking back twenty years later.
When I was somewhere between 8-10 years old my uncle gave my family our first computer, a Coleco Adam. Along with the computer we were given the now classic book BASIC Computer Games. No one in my [...]

New Workflow Tools

I recently added a couple of new tools to my project workflow, Hoptoad and Pivotal Tracker.
Hoptoad is a Rails plugin that acts a replacement for the exception_notifier from the wonderfully talented Thoughbot team (of Paperclip and Shoulda fame). Hoptoad is a hosted solution that keeps track of duplicate bugs, frequency, and resolution. This is a [...]