2008 March

(Note – this is part of a series of posts on Jazz-related activities @ EclipseCon 2008. See this entry for background.)
Presenter: John Wiegand (IBM Rational Chief Architect)
Talk: “Influence of Digital Communities on Software Development”
Reporter: James Branigan

John started by providing a simple classification of digital communities that exist today. He organized these communities into groups, … Read more >

(Note – this is part of a series of posts on Jazz-related activities @ EclipseCon 2008. See this entry for background.)
Presenter: Kimberley Peter (Jazz UI Design Lead)
Talk: “Building On Eclipse In Interesting Ways – While Still Respecting Its Look and Feel”
Reporter: Patrick Streule
Kim gave an overview of four conceptual themes that we’ve applied in many … Read more >

(Note – this is part of a series of posts on Jazz-related activities @ EclipseCon 2008. See this entry for background.)
Presenter: Kai-Uwe Maetzel (Jazz Process Lead)
Talk: “What if your tools knew your team?”
Reporter: Jim des Rivières

Kai set the stage by telling 4 stories from everyday life that each tell us something about collaboration. Underlying any … Read more >

(Note – this is part of a series of posts on Jazz-related activities @ EclipseCon 2008. See this entry for background.)
Presenter: Jean-Michel Lemieux (Jazz Source Control Lead)
Talk: “Source Control in Jazz”
Reporter: Jim des Rivières
Jazz SCM is a modern source control system based on change-sets. Team members make changes to files; these changes are collected into … Read more >

(Note – this is part of a series of posts on Jazz-related activities @ EclipseCon 2008. See this entry for background.)
Presenter: Erich Gamma (Jazz Technical Lead)
Talk: “Developing Software like a Band Plays Jazz”
Reporter: Darin Swanson
This afternoon at EclipseCon 2008, Erich gave an overview of how Rational Team Concert, built on top of Jazz, addresses common … Read more >

As Jean-Michel mentioned a few weeks ago, we have a strong Jazz team presence at EclipseCon 2008 in Santa Clara, California this week. Since not all Jazz.net community members can be at EclipseCon, but may be interested in Jazz activities there, we’re going to post reports on several of the talks that Jazz team members … Read more >

Chris Daly’s entry “Some Notes on Rhythm” provides a good high-level overview of how the Jazz Project establishes a “rhythm” to make consistent and predictable progress over the course of project milestones and release cycles. In this entry I’d like to drill-down to show how we use our tools to keep a rhythm for day-to-day … Read more >