What to do when the developers in your team just can't seem to get along? Salsita CEO gives practical tips from his 25 years of experience managing professional software development teams.…
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Testing & QA
Debunking a buzzword: the philosophy of clean code
Programming in a clear and comprehensive way is crucial for any software development firm. But the slightly overused term of clean code suffers from a serious vulnerability — the human being behind the screen.…
Practical Lessons in Peer Code Review
Millions of years ago, apes descended from the trees, evolved opposable thumbs and—eventually—became human beings. We see mandatory code reviews in a similar light: something that separates human from beast on the rolling grasslands of the software development savanna. Nonetheless, I sometimes hear comments like these from our…
Outgrowing Pivotal Tracker
At Salsita, we've been using Pivotal Tracker as our primary project management tool for over two years now. When choosing a tool, we were looking for something generic enough to use both to present a project overview to clients and to manage developers' day-to-day work. We've tried various solutions, but…
On Using Jasmine in xpcshell Tests.
Jasmine is a JavaScript framework for supporting behaviour-driven development in your projects. Like most JS frameworks, when used for client side development Jasmine expects an environment that meets certain conditions (e.g. it assumes the existence of a global window object). In Salsita, however, we're in the business of creating…