No excuse not to have your branching strategy taken care of, because: git-flow

First, get it installed. This takes less than a minute, at least on a *nix based machine. I’ve no idea what it takes on Windows, but hey, at least it’s available there too! I did a clean curl and install as shown. It took about 14 seconds solely because I wasn’t typing very fast today.... Continue reading →

Huboard, Github Issues ala Kanban, Implemented…

Recently I discovered Huboard. Thanks to those that helped me find it! Huboard is really simple and helps keep that kanban visibility when everyone can’t be in the same environment all the time. I setup a board for one of the pending OSS Projects that will be coming live. These are the steps I took.... Continue reading →

Oh Snap, Got That Kanban w/ Github Integration!!

A recent issue came up on the team yesterday. We needed to increase the visibility of what we’re working on without dragging ourselves into more one on one or team communication. As anyone that has spent more than 5 minutes with a team knows, meetings kill productivity and morale, so the idea to get a... Continue reading →

Keeping Your Rails Projects Organized Right!

I’ve been working with Rails now for about 3 months. At first I jumped right in like a bull in a china shop. I have since, suffered the frustration of doing so. I’ve experimented on OS-X, Windows, and Linux (primarily the Ubuntu Distro). Among these three operating systems, getting up and running with rails is... Continue reading →