On a normal day, our developers spend the majority of their time focused on delivering software on a single team. We also recognize the great value in having our developers get out of their teams for a while to cross-pollinate ideas. Read More…
Our Open Source hackathon generated a lot of excitement around here. Eight hours of hacking yielded some interesting contributions. The judges looked for impact, creativity, and completeness. Out of a possible 12 points, the teams were all within 3 points of each other. Read More…
We’re excited to be hosting our fourth annual Intelliware employee hackathon. The theme of this year’s hackathon is contributing to Open Source. As an organization of developers we benefit from the OSS community. We would like to celebrate the community and give back at the same time. Read More…
When I talk to people about non-functional requirements I often get the following responses: “Huh? I don’t know what you’re talking about.” “Oh yeah. Non-functional requirements…that’s performance, right?” “This is …
Wondering when you last did a merge between two branches with Mercurial? If you’re merging frequently (you are, aren’t you?), you should be able to tell by looking at the …
Earlier, I mentioned a threading bug that I had introduced. I had tripped up on a variation of an antipattern that I’m usually alert to, so in the interest of …
While reading through the hg red bean book, I skipped over the “bisect” command thinking I’d never need it, or at least that it wouldn’t be worth the effort to …
I was working with Steve recently on a Postgres-related bug in our test JDBC driver. Alec gave us a Postgres factoid that helped us figure out what was going on. …