SDLC Board Game

I recently got interested in financial board games and saw how they can be very useful in educating children about certain concepts.

It got me thinking whether it was also possible to represent certain aspects of executing a software project via a boardgame and make it fun.

Here are a few things that I have come up [...]

Orchestra ERP

The stock market was getting challenging for technical analysts so I lost motivation in developing the Euclid project (mentioned in the previous post.) Perhaps I will revisit it once the markets and trading get interesting again.

I have instead resumed developing my WPF ERP framework. I am currently using / planning to use the following free frameworks [...]

VersionOne and Trac

Curious about Agile web tools, I installed VersionOne’s Agile Team Edition (free for up to 10 users) and Trac.

VersionOne is a leading Agile Project Management tool, built with Scrum, XP and agile in mind. Trac is a bug/issue management system with a wiki and Subversion integration.

They both work alright on Vista. For V1, I had to reinstall [...]

Subversion and Live Mesh

I’ve always been paranoid about my home code. After doing regular backups at home on a spare hard drive, I always felt that I needed to have an offsite one.

When I discovered Live Mesh, I thought that this was the answer to my need. I immediately connected my project folder and my Subversion folder to the [...]