Archives for Peter Moore

Cognitive RPM – Why developers think they don't like code review

Code review improves code quality. That's widely accepted as fact. Yet relatively few shops do code review. Why is this so? Well I think it's because people still associate code review with meetings and developers who like meetings are a small group. Why do we hate meetings so? I don't think it's because they are implicitly evil or pointless (though they often are). I believe it's because even a 10 minute face-to-face empties the brain cache we've been building up to that moment. The following

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Protip: Open in Eclipse & IntelliJ Shortcuts

All complex software inevitably has a swag of useful little features that whilst great aren't that discoverable. After recently seeing several different people switching to their IDE and manually opening a file to dive into a source file they were looking at in FishEye or Crucible, its clear that the open in IDE links fit firmly into the "non-obvious feature" category. So if you haven't discovered it yet, you may be interested to learn that you can "one click" open stuff in your IDE from FishEye

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Sneak Peek: Sexy Side-by-side Diffs

We don't usually do the whole teaser thing. But I just think this (long awaited) feature looks so sweet that I had to share. Side-by-side diffs have never been FishEye's strong point. What we have now isn't terrible, but it certainly isn't great either, especially on a small screen. A little while ago during one of our Fedex competitions (where everyone is given a day and a half to deliver whatever they want) Nic Venegas won with a rich side-by-side diff viewer. Well, it finally made it onto FishEye's

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Crucible & FishEye What's New in 2.1 Webinar Recording

The following video is a recording of the What's New in 2.1 Demo and Q&A webinar held yesterday, November 18. So if your idea of a good time is listening to me ramble on for 40 minutes then this is your lucky day! The demo starts at 5:25 and goes for about 15 minutes, if you want to skip the rest. There is about 20 minutes of Q&A at the end for the die hards (note: for those on the earlier call, note this was the afternoon session).

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