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Re: Scott Ambler's Agility at Scale presentation in Cape Town

Shayan Raghavjee — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:51:43 -0000

Heh, bad thing about RSS, it doesn't track comments.

We've put some serious effort into QA in the last few months. Not quite at the level we want it to be yet, but automated testing's moving along. Unit tests will be a big part of our future, along with daily builds, regression testing & all the nice stuff.

Sadly, nobody was interested in switching from svn to git, bzr or hg.

Re: http://nxsy.org/redirecting-from-confluence-to-mediawiki-part-4

jaakkoh — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:57:30 -0000

Thanks!

Re: http://nxsy.org/redirecting-from-confluence-to-mediawiki-part-4

nxsy — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:16:40 -0000

Looks like my old URL wasn't redirecting correctly. It is working now, although the URLs aren't quite right...

Re: Scott Ambler's Agility at Scale presentation in Cape Town

nxsy — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:08:29 -0000

Hey Shayan,

Strangely enough, I was wondering what you were up to during the presentation, probably because I was reminded of the two companies we've worked together by the presentation.

Getting started with testing is the hardest part. It's painful on an existing project and painful when you're doing it for the first time, so you've really got to make the time to get it done early on, or the pile of features people will inevitably pile onto your plate will mean you'll never get it done.

I guess it's something like revision control, continuous integration, and a bug tracker — you need to make it a requirement before developing code that the project has a test suite. I've convinced people of not moving forward until revision control and bug tracking are in place easily enough, so hopefully making that sort of stand on testing would be similarly easy with the right arguments.

Neil

Re: Online share trading in South Africa: Who is out there?

nxsy — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:50:48 -0000

Thanks for all the comments, guys, and especially to Graham. I think I'm nearing a decision-making-time.

Re: Online share trading in South Africa: Who is out there?

nxsy — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:49:47 -0000

I'm tempted to sign up with FNB's Share Investor given that I am already a FNB client.

Tax seems to be a nightmare with share investing — what does FNB do to help make sure I have the right information for when tax time comes around?

Re: http://nxsy.org/amazon-s3-storage-manager-for-knowledgetree

Shiju V.Joseph — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:06:00 -0000

Hi,

I am also getting the same error ,

Fatal error: Call to undefined method KTInit::prependpath() in /srv/www/htdocs/dms/plugins/s3storage/S3StoragePlugin.php on line 16

am using knowledgetree 3.5.3 , highly appreciated if anyone has fixed this already and willing to share that.

Thanks
Shiju V.Joseph

Re: Online share trading in South Africa: Who is out there?

Graham P — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:24:08 -0000

I'm actually tending towards Auto Share Invest - the 20 companies are "best of the sector", and it has index funds like SATRIX 40 (JSE top-40), and ITRIX pound and euro-denominated funds (not true offshore because they must be redeemed in rands, but an effective rand hedge), and NewGold bullion debentures as both a Rand and Dollar hedge. It all makes for a pretty diverse portfolio, they're probably the 20 companies to start with in any case.

See http://delicious.com/skygreen/auto-share-invest for my bookmarks.

Re: Online share trading in South Africa: Who is out there?

Graham P — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:06:16 -0000

I confused two products there: "Standard Bank Auto-Share Invest" is the one which gives you 20 blue chips to pick from and is offered from internet banking (which is where I saw it) as relatively low-risk investment, but also low fees (R20+1%) and no monthly fee.

Standard Bank Online Share Trading however lets you invest in any share. It costs R50/month (which is waived for >=3 trades/month, each of which costs minimum of R70). It may indeed be a good choice. They also give seminars on the fundemental of investing - I may attend the 20 November one in Cape Town.

ShareNET is definitely day-trading oriented: Standard Bank OST would be better for managing a portfolio. The ShareNET R48/month fee is for their website, and is addition to fees from the actual underlying broker you sign up with (R70-R210/transaction).

Also, a share trading platform also lets you invest in Exchange-Trading Funds typically index funds like the SATRIX 40, which I think do better than the "average" unit trust fund (good funds outperform the index though).

Re: Online share trading in South Africa: Who is out there?

nxsy — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:47:16 -0000

Definitely won't be day trading — just want to manage a portion of my portfolio myself.

Too bad about the Standard Bank Online Share trading — having only a handful of blue-chip companies is probably going to remove it from the running in this case.

Re: http://nxsy.org/amazon-s3-storage-manager-for-knowledgetree

nxsy — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:17:10 -0000

You should probably contact the KnowledgeTree team — I seem to recall they were working on an S3 storage manager a while back.

Re: In San Francisco in October

nxsy — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:24:09 -0000

I haven't looked at Yelp, but Meetup looked pretty dismal for the period we're there.

Also, it would be great to have you along to the Python user group. Pitching up at a new user group can be a bit daunting without backup. ;)

Re: In San Francisco in October

nxsy — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:21:13 -0000

Those two sites both look promising so far - thanks for the pointers!

Re: Early adventures with Sitemaps

nxsy — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:26:50 -0000

test

Re: Early adventures with Sitemaps

nxsy — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:42:16 -0000

test

Re: http://nxsy.org/be-sure-to-wear-a-flower-in-your-hair

nxsy — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:03:41 -0000

Testing comments