An interesting discussion is going on over at Joel on Software forums. It all stems from Joel's premise of Don't Rewrite the System from Scratch! He talks extensively about developers' need to develop and not just tweak. This seems accurate because it seems that half the time I look at a block of code, I […]
Joel (of Joel on Software) has spoken once again and this time he has spoken about the legendary “Top 1% of Developers”. He points out – and rightfully so – the fact that just because a company accepts 1/200 of their applicants, it doesn't mean they're getting the top 0.5%. It means that they hired […]
After a much needed hiatus, I am back. Mantis development is continuing as described before. It is not moving quite as projected due to other competing priorities, but it is difficult to turn down customers. We have just started working with our Graphic Artist to create themes and stylesheets for dotProject. There is obviously going […]
As of today, KC will be 100% on the Mantis for approximately two weeks before starting on his next project. We hope to get all of the core functionality wrapped up by then and make a version available on the dotmods page on SourceForge. There has been a great deal of interest on the dotProject […]
With the activation of our Merchant Account, we are nearly 100% ready to bring the site fully online. KC has been working hard to make sure that things are working smoothly with the dotProject installation(s), our SugarCRM implementation, the Mantis/dotProject integration and our usage of osCommerce. We are waiting for a few more graphics from […]
As the schedule displays, the dotProject/Mantis integration is proceeding full steam this week. The functionality that is already complete is nothing to sneeze at, but it's hardly functional as a real tool. Currently, a user can log into dotProject and view a list of the bugs currently logged in Mantis. It initially did this via […]
There are MANY powerful, robust, and flexible packages out there both for the desktop and the web. Software such as Apache, sendmail, iptables, and a variety of other things serve as much of the backbone of much of the Internet, whether users realize it or not. Along the lines of web-based applications, there are my […]
After working through all of the outstanding issues with all of the contracting work for CaseySoftware, we are about to start full steam on the dotProject development. Our projected timeline is below. I believe that by making it public, it will provide some transparency into our organization and hopefully demonstrate the commitment of CaseySoftware to […]
Normally CEO would handle a topic such as this, but I've been personally involved in it now, so I'm handling this round. When you are contracting with the Federal Goverment (maybe State too, not sure), they require audit logs of just about every financial transaction imaginable. It makes sense, they want to make sure they […]
I know I'm not the first and I certainly won't be the last, but I've decided to review Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks anyway. Unless you are in the technology realm, you probably haven't heard of it. Even if you are in the technology realm, you might not have heard of it. Therefore, it […]