http://www.kds.com.ua/wp KDS Software Group web site Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:43:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For last few weeks many people on the Net got email stating that we need financial representatives: Hello Sir/Madam, I am Andrey Khavryuchenko, owner KDS Software specializes in innovative IT solutions and complex software projects development. My company based in Ukraine. ... http://www.kds.com.ua/wp/2008/07/09/need-financial-representative-hoax/ [Giles Bowkett, A Tale of Two Startups](http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2006/12/tale-of-two-startups.html) > If you're working with somebody at a startup, you know that they think it's possible they might be one of the best in their field, and they're willing to work very hard to prove it (or to find out otherwise). You also know ... http://www.kds.com.ua/wp/2007/10/08/kds-wants-you/ I hate hitting database in my unit tests. Even if it's tiny, nearly empty and easy to fill. Things only become worse when you have to test lots different cases that contradict each other and yet are small enough to justify a separate database fixture. Thus, tonight I'm fighting ... http://www.kds.com.ua/wp/2007/06/30/django-db-mocks-thoughts/ Last two days I've spent fixing [Djiggit](http://www.kds.com.ua/djiggit) wrt international, esp cyrillics feeds. Here are 3 points that I've learned: 1. Read and follow instructions at docs/unicode.txt and communicate on the django-users list 2. Use latest db adaptors 3. Beware of your database encoding Long story. It took me several hours to trace why cyrillics is stored ... http://www.kds.com.ua/wp/2007/06/06/3-hints-re-migrating-django-app-to-unicode/ [Djiggit](http://www.kds.com.ua/djiggit) is build on the [Django](http://www.djangoproject.com) unicode branch and yet it require non-obvious solutions to everyday tasks. Imagine you're trying to present a (cyrillic) tag in url-ready form. Usually this is solved by {{ tagname|urlencode }} But when the 'tagname' contains non-ascii symbols, urlencode barfs: KeyError ... http://www.kds.com.ua/wp/2007/06/05/django-not-ready-for-unicode-out-of-box/ Just a little writeup.. Now have a pleasure of not starting django development webserver, nor using apache to do http-level tests in my project. Thanks to [twill](http://twill.idyll.org/) and its [wsgi integration](http://ivory.idyll.org/articles/wsgi-intro/testing-wsgi-apps-with-twill.html). Works smoothly now, but caused me little cursing when twill refused to see rss feed. After digging the twill code I've ... http://www.kds.com.ua/wp/2007/06/04/testing-django-with-twill-and-nosetests/ Lately I wanted to collect my django feeds into a single web-viewable channel. There's more than a single solution to do this. Being django fellow, I've decided to utilize [FeedJack](http://www.feedjack.org/). So... Well, I guess, it might work flawlessly for other people, but in my cause it failed miserably after adding ... http://www.kds.com.ua/wp/2007/05/28/feedjack-django-and-select_related/ FRIM: Another Way to Gather Data > In FRIM, the team writes 3×3 sticky notes about the events, impediments, and boons* of the iteration. (If you want to get fancy, you could use different color sticky notes for events, impediments, and boons.) Team members write sticky notes to include as many ... http://www.kds.com.ua/wp/2007/05/13/aar-tool-frequencyimpact-analysis/ Effects of Defects: Grey Scope Creep (Agile Advice) Fresh features are marked done, and then disappear somewhere in QA to eventually fire back at unknown time with unknown bugs. Grey scope creep. Stop it. Instead, insist on taking less but making it “done” within an iteration. Done reads fully developed, thoroughly ... http://www.kds.com.ua/wp/2007/05/07/what-feature-is-done-means/ Summarizing Mishkin Berteig list of ["The Wisdom of Teams - Generalizing Specialists"](http://www.agileadvice.com/archives/2007/01/the_wisdom_of_t_1.html): * **Backups** Team always has a backup specialist, if the assigned one is away, sick, or was hit by a bus. * **Skills** Every human being has an incredible capacity for learning. And even more - ... http://www.kds.com.ua/wp/2007/02/21/4-points-of-having-a-team-of-generalists/