My dev team uses JIRA for bug tracking. It’s a flexible project management and defect tracking system. As with almost any bug tracking system out there (Bugzilla, Trac, etc), web based defect tracking from a mobile handset is not very user-friendly.

Enter JIRA Mate (formerly JIRA Buddy), written by Shaun Ervine, an…

After converting my MacBook Pro in to a Windows developer dream, I wanted to have the same experience on a more portable, commodity hardware unit. Virtualizing Windows within Windows with VMware Server is something I’m familiar with. It’s something many Windows developers may prefer (and I recommend if you’re…

Day 5 – 7:30AM EDT, 10 TPM (Tweets Per Minute)…

Links: Day 1 – Day 2 – Day 3 – Day 4 – http://twitter.com/sol – http://solyoung.com

This morning’s Twitter experience has found some bugs in the system. Last night I added a few hundred friends but didn’t…

Developing PC applications on the Mac is great, contrary to what some believe. I too was once in the ‘build-on-the-platform-you-target’ camp. Forget that horse-puckie and get efficient:

1. Get VMware Fusion: http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/.
2. Make sure you’ve got XCode. This will be sixty percent of your development environment and you’ll be coding in OS X.

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