Ferran “Ferdy” Rodenas does a great job re-telling the Jazz story and vision in this blog entry: http://www.rodenas.org/blog/2009/04/20/from-the-eclipse-platform-to-the-ibm-rational-jazz-platform/  Ferdy is not an IBMer, but he has been playing along enthusiastically in the Jazz community. While we always appreciate positive words like this, I’m even more encouraged that someone outside the team seems to really grok and […]

I like to regularly follow highscalability.com, which is all about the practices of extremely scalable web sites. Over the four years that we have been evolving the Jazz platform, we’ve investigated and learned a lot about the principles and standards of scalability, and even discovered a few good ideas of our own. In other words, we’re […]

When we began the Jazz Project and opened it to the public last year, we had two goals in mind: we had a vision for a platform on which to build a new generation of collaborative software development tools, and we wanted to work in the open to build a first product on that platform […]

When I was young, I used to wile away time dreaming of what my future ideal home would look like and where it would be. It tended to include things like curved floating staircases, open concept rooms, lots of art, and was usually located in some exotic or ultra-cool location on the planet nowhere near […]

This week at the Rational VoiCE of the Client event, a colleague of mine and I will be hosting design feedback sessions on the next rev of the Rational Jazz Foundation Web UI.  If you are planning to be at the event and want to talk Jazz, please stop by the Wakefield Room and sign […]

Displaying query results in Team Central can be a great way to monitor work item changes as they occur. Since the query is automatically run on a defined interval, the view quickly reflects changes that are important to you. I find that it is less “in your face” than having a popup alert, and easier […]