RailsBridge is hosting the first Rails BugMash this coming weekend, on August 8th through August 10th. The idea behind the BugMash is: RailsBridge has a lot of energy. The Rails Lighthouse has a lot of open tickets. With the help of some Rails Core team members, we’re going to see what we can do to …
Contracting or Freelancing ?
A friend recently wrote me asking for some advise about contracting, which I think would be useful for a lot of freelancers. Eric, It looks like I have a shot at a 3 month contract with Initech. I have a vague idea of what the going hourly rates are; but I don’t know anything about …
Redmine Kanban plugin
I’m happy to release the Redmine Kanban plugin for Redmine. This plugin allows users to manage issues by following the Kanban style of project management, with bonus Javascript effects like drag and drop. Getting the plugin A copy of the plugin can be downloaded from Little Stream Software or from GitHub. Make sure to download …
Redmine Issue Due Date plugin
I’ve just released another small plugin for Redmine, the Issue Due Date plugin. This plugin will automatically set the due dates for issues based their Version or Deliverable’s due dates. I found this is useful to keep track of the latest date an issue needs to be completed by. Getting the plugin A copy of …
Open Source Bridge 2009
I attended Open Source Bridge was last week, and have to say it was the best conference I’ve been to (I’ve only been to half a dozen). The variety of content kept the conference interesting and it was nice for me to finally meet others in the Portland tech community. I took a bunch of …