02 October 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Before starting a new project, take a look.

If you’re planning to start a new project, from scratch, Jim Neath, from Fudge, had the good idea to create Bort, your application skeleton to start without pain.
What is Bort ?
      Ruby on Rails popularity brings to it a lot of very good plugins. And it’s that, on 98 % case, when you [...]

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01 October 2008 ~ 6 Comments

NBGit, a Git plugin for Netbeans

Use Git and GitHub on Netbeans (image source : http://www.flickr.com/photos/boboroshi/2591305062/ )
For three months now I’ve managed to migrate my project on the Git version control system.
Just found, yesterday night, a Git plug in for Netbeans. It’s the first version, not all the commands are implemented, but, you will have the commit one, the diff one [...]

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25 September 2008 ~ 4 Comments

Please, use a version control system, even if your work alone.

Currently, in my team, we are looking for a new junior web developer.
Each time it is the same process.
   1. Read the CV.   2. First call to see if the person will be ok FOR the role.   3. Second call with technical questions.
In these technical questions, one is : “Have your ever used a source [...]

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02 September 2008 ~ 0 Comments

How to be productive on spare time

Last Sunday I was working on my current personal project, when, during a tea break, I thought about “how to be productive on your personal projects”.
Problematic :
We all have a life (I hope for you), and we all need asocial life. But as a web developer, you also have some dreams and some personal “killer [...]

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