Brian Button officially announced the St. Louis Code Camp coming up May 6th and 7th. I know Brian has worked hard to bring it here. I spoke at the Charlotte one, and had great fun. It isn’t often you get to go directly into a Microsoft campus and talk about open source tools, and even…
Speaking at the Mid Missouri XP User’s Group
CARFAX’s own Gary Brown has gotten together a group of XP enthusiasts to form the Mid-Missouri XP User’s Group. The first public meeting is tonight at the CARFAX offices in Columbia, MO. Several people who attended the NFJS Conference in St. Louis, myself included, will be doing a panel discussion on various topics, including the…
Schema Spy number 54 on SourceForge!
John Currier, a former CharJUGger, released a tool a while back called Schema Spy. If you haven’t seen it, you owe it to yourself to check it out. It generates graphical dependency diagrams of your database, including things like implied constraints between tables. Anyway, he sent a post over to the CharJUG mailing list saying…
NFJS Conference Day 3 and Wrap Up
What a whirlwind weekend. I wasn’t sure how I was going to fit any more information in today, but somehow I managed to. I decided to get some more Java in today, and play with some more tools I hadn’t played with yet. I can’t stress enough how great this conference was, and they are…
No Fluff Just Stuff Conference – Day 2 – The Debauchery continues…
As I expected, today was just as intense as yesterday, except longer. Some great sessions, and great information. I found out a fellow Missouri blogger – Duane Keys is around here, though I don’t think I’ve run into him. Hopefully next time we can get the name badges to be a little bigger – at…
NFJS Conference – Day 1
In a day that starts with being told to stink less and earlier, and ending in dinner with Dave Thomas, Bruce Tate, Justin Gehtland and a host of people from the St. Louis Ruby group, it’s amazing that so much was packed into just a half a day. Here’s what you missed by not coming…
NUnit/NAnt and Mono on Linux
I must say I’m quite impressed. Today, I was watching a conversation on the TDD list about how “bugs” got into NUnit if it was built using TDD. Charlie Poole gave a great rebuttal, but one of his responses caught my attention: >>>* NAnt build script failing under Linux due to use of >>> backslash…
Metaphors and understanding systems
There is a great thread on the XP list right now discussing Metaphors in the context of XP. Metaphors are basically a common language of how a system works, ideally based on domain terms. However, I found the following post by Kent Beck to be particularly enlightning: Teams work more effectively when members have personal…
St. Louis Ruby Dinner during NFJS
If anyone is going to NFJS, or will be in the St. Louis area on Friday, March 3rd, the St. Louis Ruby User’s Group is putting together a dinner during the Friday night dinner slot at NFJS. Here’s the announcement: We are going to have a dinner gathering of Rubyists in St. Louis during the…
RubyEclipse problem when creating a new project solved
I’ve been working with the great Ruby Eclipse project (which if you haven’t played with, download and then go through the tutorial. It’s been working flawlessly on my XP Laptop, but I hadn’t been able to get it to work on my Linux box. Basically, with both 0.6 and 0.7 versions, I would go to…