September 2006 Entries
Recently I decided to check out the beta version of Agile Web Development with Rails book, which is targeted to be released this fall. It is very interesting that the authors also brought agility into book writing. It allows readers to provide feedback to new material during the development of the book. I am also glad to see that the migration part of the framework has become a big part of the book, even having a separate chapter dedicated to it. It uses migration instead of DDL in the entire demo...
We finally moved into our highly anticipated new office space. It was designed to be friendly with plenty of white boards and space to move around. The whole back wall in our development area can be used as a white board, so we no longer have to erase our designs until they are no longer needed. In our old office, all the developers were packed into a small area, so there was no room for the product team. Now the product team is located behind the development team,which makes it easier to communicate...