Changelogic weblog

Nonlinearities and us

In this weblog (I just hate the word blog, it somehow associates with Oracle’s blob - a data type quite impossible to get from database, so we’ll call our weblog) we are going to write about several topics, that probably, but I’m afraid not always, will describe some nonlinearity, asymmetry or plain wicked situation from software development world, be it usability, project planning or whatever comes to mind with SD. Ever wondered how unexpectable the users really are? Or seen that asymmetry between the resources you need and the resources you have?

I’m pretty sure there will be also some entries describing a nonlinearity literally, meaning, for example, source code branching models of various kinds, because that’s what we actually do here. You can find a small list of topics we’re about to cover here: what we do?

The tagline about nonlinearities is itself a loan from a book called “Fooled By Randomness” by Mr. Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Although the book mostly meditates about financial markets, their randomness and how our lives are really driven by chances, it’s for sure an entertaining and thought-provoking read.

By saying “we” I mean the team currently developing a software product called Changelogic. Changelogic is a simple application that integrates task and bug management with version control giving you a change management functionality. It comes with a branching model included, meaning it very much systematizes and automatizes the way branches for different tasks and releases are created and merged later. If you want to know more about it, check us out at www.changelogic.com.

But back to talking about “us” - by now there are six of us:

• Karel Kravik, product manager, that’s me
• Imre Lumiste, technical lead
• Sander Muru, PHP programmer
• Villu Ruusmann, Java programmer
• Sigmar Muuga, PHP programmer
• Artur Assor, tester

But don’t be afraid that there will be only few postings, we expect to at least double our team by the end of year. Maybe a few more words about posting frequency - although by now even my high-school classmate who is engaged in plumbing, blogs bi-daily, we at least try to keep the quality bar and not to copy stories from Slashdot, Digg nor del.icio.us, but rather try a bit harder and season your expensive time with software development experiences from not well-known corner of the world called Estonia, the home of personal computer Juku.

Besides our product, we’re building here company too, having an ambitious plan to be the best one to work for in Estonia, even better than Webmedia, that we’re actually part of, or Skype for example. We’ve promised to reverse the tradition of being invited to Webmedia’s summer days and invite them to our’s someday.

So stay tuned.

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