Why I use Story Points to estimate tasks

Cost estimation is one of the pillars of SCRUM.

One of the essential parts of SCRUM is cost estimation. Some authors even recommend estimating in 2 iterations.

Very fuzzy and intuitive first estimation, which gives you a general idea of what can fit in the next Sprint.
A second estimation, specific in real time amounts. …

Just read ‘Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture’ .

The book that explains the theory behind some Ruby on Rails designs.

I like how Martin Fowler writes, but beyond that, I liked a lot the content and philosophy behind this book.

The books explains design patterns very frequent in enterprise applications with examples. It also includes diagrams and implementations in Java that explain the scenarios.

The book is intended to be…

Why you should keep your gems up to date?

Keeping dependencies up to date not only fixes bugs or improves performance, there is more.

I have to confess that until last year I was not paying attention
to keep gems updated. My top 3 excuses:

“I have no time”
“I don’t want to introduce new bugs for free”
“It has not got new features that pay the bill”