development « Russ the Bus

20Mar/120

Make Me A Baseball Card is Live!

I've always been a coding tinker-er but most of my personal projects never really "went live". This year I made a new years resolution to design, develop and deploy an app all the way through.

I'm proud to announce that I flipped the switch and my first personal project went live last night! You can check it out here: MakeMeABaseballcard.com There were lots of late nights and lots of coffee. It was like having a 2nd part-time job. Whew...

What is it?

MakeMeABaseballcard.com lets someone track their baseball stats and print out their very own baseball card.

When they click the Print Card link, we open a new window and they can print their card directly through the browser's print functionality. Here's my printed card.

What's next?

There are a TON of things I want to add. Keep an eye on the facebook page for new features!

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31Aug/110

What Worked (surprisingly) Well – Sprint Tracker in Source Control

This past sprint retrospective the team proposed that we change up the way our scrum team reports on task progress. The team proposed that we keep our Sprint Tracker excel document in source control. Then prior to the daily standup meeting each team member would check out the document, update the time remaining on their tasks, and check it back in.

I am surprised at how well this worked! I was expecting that nobody would participate or somebody would forget to checkin and then go on vacation or any number of possibilities. But I'm proud to report our standups are more effective and efficient because we spend more time to discussing what was done, what to do and what things are standing in the way.

Let me try and explain in more detail.