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Greenhopper, an agile project management plugin for JIRA has been acquired by Atlassian.

This is a great plugin that creates broad agile capabilities to JIRA - which means that agile teams can use JIRA not only as a bug tracker, but also as a planning board for their sprints. It got some great reporting tools complete with burndown charts.

We implemented Greenhopper for the teams at NHST Media Group, and it really helped the execution of our agile processes

We use IRC as our main communication channel here at the office. And after setting up Bamboo as our continuous integration server I wanted to hook it up to our channel so I could get some automatic flaming of those build-breakers.

Its been some years since I last wrote anything for IRC. And the only thing I had ever programmed in before was eggdrop. But I wanted something leaner - and preferably written in python. I ended up with Kibot. It seemed to have everything I needed - namely timer support.

Bamboo have several RSS feeds you can tap into. I wanted to use the feed for all failed builds. Have the bot iterate over these items (I used feedparser for this) and send a message to a channel.

I finally ended up with Murphy. A chap who will give full notice of your shortcomings as a programmer.

You can grab the source and play around with it yourself if you like.

Now I just need to plug in an insult generator. Anyone have any ideas where I can find a particularily nasty dictionary?

I wanted a tool to write acceptance tests with. Something easy to set up, and of course, flexible. What gets churned out here at my company are webapps, so I had this in mind when I went ahead looking for the right tool. After browsing around I came to the conclusion that the tools with most drive behind them was FIT and Selenium. Here follows my encounter with them.

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In lieu of my task of setting up a testing workbench at our development office I've been checking out various integration servers. Focusing on Bamboo, Continuum and Hudson. What follows is an informal look on various continuous integration servers.

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At work I've been set at the task to evaluate and come up with a continous integration strategy. Right now we have a mish-mash of an development structure trying to utilize agile development, and using scrum to do our project management. However, test-driven development is not our native tongue, and the tools we are using aren't helping our productivity.

First of all we are looking for tools to keep our issues on track. The company I work for is a media company, delivering a range of newspapers, both digital and paper. And as a media company you have to roll with the waves, because changes come quickly in a ad-driven environment. There is a myriad of feature requests from other departments in our company. And we, as the development department have to sort out all of these and assign work effort to them. There are shared packages across domains, and there are of course domain centered ones. Things change all the time, and we need to get our QA up and running so we can handle this. So this article will in effect become a sort of lucid discussion over digital vs post-it planning boards.

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