Monthly Archives: September 2006

Atlassian Developer Blog: Good Fences Make Aloof Neighbours

By MattK | Published: September 22, 2006
Atlassian Developer Blog: Good Fences Make Aloof Neighbours: “In an enterprise environment, where every contributor to the wiki is identifiable, and every change reversible, what value remains in restricting edit rights a priori?” I stumbled on this on the atlassian site. My group is trying out Jira and the Confluence wiki. This article from an [...]
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How to Deal With An Irate Person

By MattK | Published: September 21, 2006
I’m working on getting my team to have a sane support rotation so that folks can spend most of their time on development instead of constantly switching between tasks. It’s good because I’ll get more opportunities to do work. I’m thinking about sending tips like this: “How to Deal With An Irate Person” out to [...]
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Is Your IDE Hot or Not?

By MattK | Published: September 19, 2006
As I read Coding Horror: Is Your IDE Hot or Not? I noticed the call for someone to create a hotornot site for IDE screenshots. It didn’t seem like a bad idea, and I immediately thought of Ning, a social software platform that debuted a while ago. They make it dead easy to create an [...]
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Configuration screens

By MattK | Published: September 9, 2006
I’m thinking about configuration screens for stuff at work. Some setttings affect things that happen on our server. Other settings affect things that happen on the clientside. There is a conflict between building things ahead of time and crafting them to be very userfriendly, and building things dynamically on the fly and letting them be [...]
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