Automation of Burn-up and Burn-down charts using GScript and Entrance

I have always found that the burn-up and burn-down charts are very informative and fit to the iterative story-based development very well. Every project that I work on, I will try to figure out different ways to generate burn-up and burn-down charts.
Two months ago, I took the job on putting Platform on Sprints. After some [...]

Compiling Try/Catch/Finally on the JVM

One thing we’re currently working on, for a variety of reasons, is compiling down our in-house programming language into Java bytecode (and just for the record, I can’t make any promises about when we’ll be done or around when or even if this stuff will make it into future product releases).  Part of the fun [...]

Concerning The Relative Stickiness Of Success And Failure

It’s often the case that the hardest things to get motivated to do are those with a very speculative chance of success.  If you put in a lot of time at the gym, you’re going to get in better shape.  If you spend time cooking, you’ll probably have some reasonable to eat at the end.  [...]