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Mike Cannon-Brookes on Java, J2EE, OSX, Open Source, Australia, Atlassian, Bug Tracking, JIRA and more...

Friday, 9 August 2002

Project Management with JIRA by Brett. As I am being forced to do project management for my project manager (due mainly to a lack of technical understanding on his part), I must say - MS Project is seriously painful. I can also see where bug/enhancement tracking software needs to be extended to allow serious project management to happen. The only question in my mind is which bug tracker to hack this into. Mike, want me to have a go at JIRA? *grin* Why of course! If you want to add features, let me know and I'll hook you up with the tools and the source to do so - provided you contribute them back of course. See JRA-412 for some thoughts on a calendar for JIRA. 12:53:23 PM  comment []      Julian is going nuts about Java unit testing today - JUB, WTTools, JUnitDoclet, JTest, Test Mentor and more.   12:45:39 PM  comment []      About JSR 109 - I said "this all looks far too complicated for very little gain." Gerhard said "Have a look at this article." I say "That makes it simpler? Give me a break!" ";)" 12:42:23 PM  comment []      Bruce Eckel's posted what amounts to a beta of the third edition of Thinking in Java.The biggest change in the third edition is a "DiscoveringProblems" chapter that "teaches you about tools that you can use to findand prevent problems during your development process. These includeunit testing (JUnit, and a framework developed just for testing theexamples in the book); Ant, for automatic building; debuggers,profilers, and even Doclets." Great! TIJ is still my favourite Java basics book. [via Cafe Au Lait] 12:40:06 PM  comment []      Don't believe me that XML is too complex? Sun released version 1.0_01 of their Java Web Services Developer Pack (Java WSDP). Included are the latest versions of JAXM, JAXP, JAXR, JAX-RPC, SAAJ, JSTL and the JWSDP Registry Server. Oh so simple! [via Cafe Au Lait] 12:39:15 PM  comment []      'Dotcom millionaire' flogs porn empire. El Reg comes up with the headline of the day. 12:21:50 PM  comment []      Nicholas Petreley is always interesting, in his LinuxWorld article he takes on Scott McNealy's pained appeal to Open Source economics: My sense of fairness says Sun should get some benefit from the R&D efforts it has put into J2EE and all of the other technologies it developed. Worse, if .NET wins because open source undermined Sun's revenue model, that would not only be bad for Sun, but for the open source community, as well. I have to say I agree with his view point. Yes, Open Source is very bad for Sun ONE. Why would I pay a few hundred thousand dollars for something I can pay half of that to a smart J2EE consultant who uses free software? Scott McNealy take heed of my words to Dave, innovate rather than complain. 11:45:17 AM  comment []      UI Patterns. UI Patterns and Techniques: Introduction. A set of UI design patterns that shows promise. [ideas] Looks like a good wrap-up of web ui design patterns. I'll probably go back there and have another go at it when I'm not so busy. ;) (Like, when is that exactly? I have no idea.) [Brett Morgan's Insanity Weblog] Wow - really good set of UI patterns, but not very web based unfortunately. I would REALLY love to see (and contribute!) to something like this for web UIs. All the standard tricks like master-detail forms, sortable tables, tab interfaces, drill down navigation, form layout etc - but for HTML. 1:02:02 AM  comment []