http://davidcaylor.com linux, web development, and development teams Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:11:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When teams are distributed, it is important to find ways to build constant communication and gain the benefits that might otherwise be gained by working together in one room.  This can be challenging.  As we move towards more mobile and nomadic work styles (see this interesting set of articles from ... http://davidcaylor.com/collaboration/remote-collaboration-and-teams I ran Ubuntu for about a month.  It is a very nice distribution.  Everything worked very smoothly.  I had no real problems with it.  I'm not going to use it any more.  There is nothing at all wrong with it.  On the other hand, there aren't any real advantages over ... http://davidcaylor.com/linux/ubuntus-nice-but-im-headed-back-to-opensuse My undergraduate degree was in history.  As credentials to build a profession on, its a pretty useless major, unless you want to teach history.  But one thing it gave me was a perspective on the flow of time in the human story.  Everybody always thinks that now is the ultimate ... http://davidcaylor.com/uncategorized/post-anything I've been using Suse (and OpenSuse) for years, ever since moving off of RedHat when they started Fedora.  Other than a couple of Gentoo detours, RPM based distributions of Linux have been where I have lived since RedHat 6 point something. I have been having some problems with my laptop (running ... http://davidcaylor.com/linux/trying-ubuntu-804 I was delighted to see the announcement that Zend Framework is partnering with Dojo.  Life will be easier.  I like Zend Framework.  I like Dojo (although I've used jQuery on some recent projects).  What could be better?  Time from idea to working solution will be shorter.  As a result, customers ... http://davidcaylor.com/php/getting-more-done When I saw the information on Google App Engine, it occurred to me that we are witnesses to a paradigm shift. It isn't just about Web Services and Services Oriented approaches to them. It isn't just about Facebook and social apps. Its a different way to look ... http://davidcaylor.com/watch-this/did-you-feel-the-world-shift In web applications it is fairly common to want to edit multiple rows of the same kind of information, formatted into a table, kind of like you can in a spreadsheet. These forms are generally for editing existing information pulled from a database, which is usually already in an ... http://davidcaylor.com/php/building-table-based-forms-in-zend_form Recent work changes have led me to think more intensely about development methodologies, project management for small teams, and similar issues, and I've been reading more about Agile development. I am much more interested in the philosophical underpinnings, the values of Agile, the overall approach of Agile development, than ... http://davidcaylor.com/development/agile-thinking-for-distributed-teams