Archive for August, 2009

Dead Easy Informal Restrospectives

Recently, I was introduced to restrospectives by a wise colleague of mine. Something I had heard about, but really not gotten around to using in my software development process yet. After participating, I found the retrospective really useful, hence I thought I would share.
A restrospective in an agile process is the simple idea about “stepping [...]

August 22, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Software Process  No Comments

Codecs Should Be Patent Free

In the times we currently live in, where the music, video and tele industries are in constant battle with the consumers, trying to make them pay, it should be obvious that patented codecs are a bad thing.
Now, do not get me wrong. I think everybody should pay for what they use. I think pirates are [...]

August 20, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  5 Comments

Color Coding Source Files

This upcoming feature about color coding file scopes in IntelliJ IDEA Maia looks awfully lot like a plugin idea I and a colleague had once. We had the idea, that different “layers” or “modules” of the source of an application could be color coded differently inside IDEA. This way, one would have a direct visual [...]

August 20, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: Tools  No Comments

IDEAs Deep Flex-Mojos Support

If you are writing Flex applications using IntelliJ IDEA, you should also choose the Flexmojos maven plugin for building (if you build with maven, that is) and not the other alternatives. Why? Well, for once, it seems to be the best plugin around for flex building, but also because IDEA has deep support for it.
Currently, [...]

August 20, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Tools  No Comments

Multiple iPhoto Libraries

Just discovered a cool feature of iPhoto (’08) that I did not know about. It can handle multiple iPhoto libraries.
Due to serious color-related limitations on the display of my wifes laptop, she currently imports her pictures onto my Mac. In addition, my oldest child is taking more and more pictures with her camera, all of [...]

August 15, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Photography, Tools  One Comment