Archive for June, 2010

World Cup 2010 Half Time: Toilet or ESL?

Thursday, June 24th, 2010 by Koalabaerchen

Graph shows “Users Online” on June 23rd, 2010.

When did mouse inversion die?

Monday, June 21st, 2010 by Alexander Schöcke

Ever had the discussion whether it is “correct” to invert your mouse axis in first person shooters or not? So did we, and we wanted to get a little more science out of it. So we made a little poll to see a) how many people were using mouse inversion, and b) how old these people were.

Here are the results:
a) NOT inverted won by far. There were 7517 people with mouse inversion disabled, only 1154 with mouse inversion enabled.
b) Mouse inversion is old-school:

Age Distribution of mouse inversion

Well, nothing new here then. Mouse inversion is old-school, mouse inversion is elite.
I’m using mouse inversion btw.

Evolution of Post-Its: Layout for work unit tickets in Scrum

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 by Alexander Schöcke

Since the beginning of 2010, we’re using Scrum to manage our development projects.
Last month we were able to welcome members of other departments to the team – including IT Operations, Community Management and Marketing – for the first time.

The team decided to use Post-Its for their work units in order to easily visualize the progress they were achieving during the sprint.
This lead, among other oddities, to tickets like these here:

Evolution of Post-Its - Step 1

Can’t read anything? You have no clue what you would need to do to finish these work units? That’s what the Scrum team experienced as well.

In the Sprint Retrospective Meeting the team decided to enhance the informative value of the tickets and their readability, by designing a layout for these pieces of paper.
It clearly states what information has to stand on what position on the ticket, and led to a digitally available layout:

Evolution of Post-Its: Part 2

The “Notes/Dependencies” part has been defined as optional, it can get folded behind the main ticket part.

If this is of any help for you, you can download the Open Office Document here (Sorry, file is missing).

My personal opinion: Great team work enhancing the productivity with a simple change of the method after only one single sprint has been finished.

sfPHPUnit2Plugin version 0.9.0 is out

Thursday, June 10th, 2010 by Franz Stelzer

The sfPHPUnit2Plugin is now available in version 0.9.0. The new release is the reason of some feedback i got within my older blog post or by mail and i hope it contains all the requested things.

Two changes/enhancements have to be pointed out:
The older release had some trouble with symfony 1.2 projects and so a compatibility task was added lately.
The biggest new feature is the support for selenium tests. This support was established through a great contribution of Richard Shank. Thanks Richard!

And here the complete changelog

  • added compatibility task for symfony 1.2
  • added selenium support (Special Thanks to Richard Shank!)
  • added experimental support for plugin tests
  • added possibility to customize skeleton template files
  • adepted changes to latest changes in the lime_test class

The next big thing will be the support of plugin tests. The sfTaskExtraPlugin provides plugin tests for lime. I will have a deeper look into this mechanism and try to migrate it to this plugin.