Chive 1.0 released!

I’m pleased to announce the release of chive 1.0!

Chive is a free, open source, web-based database management tool, designed to bring joy to web developers – with easy administration, super fast UI and state of the art web technologies.
Our mission is to bring joy to web developers – every part in chive is optimized to speed so that web-developers can achieve any tasks easily and super-fast – without any hassle.

Since the last release of the 0.5 series we fixed 10 Bugs and contributed some nice new productivity features:

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Tuning Apache for High Traffic

A few months ago we launched an online community / social network at querdenker.de using our software for such solutions Fusonic Connect. We have always been thinking that we already considered nearly everything which could break our system when beeing accessed by a lot of people concurrently. And we were right. What did break the site when more than 200 people accessed the site in the same minute, it has not been our software that collapsed but it has been the whole LAMP setup. So here is what we did to get the site up and running again: Read more …

Monotouch – Tips and Tricks (Part 3)

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Part 3

This part 3 of my monotouch tips and tricks series blog post covers the following topics:

• Increase user experience by using UI-Toasts for action-feedback
• Making UIWebViews transparent
• Buttons with image scaling

To view my previous monotouch posts follow these links:

- Monotouch – Tips and Tricks (Part 2)
- Monotouch – Tips and Tricks (Part 1)

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Monotouch – Tips and Tricks (Part 2)

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Part 2

This is the second part of my “Monotouch – Tips and Tricks” series. I will write about the following topics:

• How to create reminders using NSNotifications + use of my UIAlertHelper class.
• How to simulate reminders/alerts using NSNotifications when the application has already been killed. (handling it in the FinishedLaunching method)

A cool feature of the Fusonic EventGuide application is the ability to star your favourite events/gigs. All starred gigs are not only available on your personal running-order, you will also get a notification shortly before the event starts so that you don’t miss your favourite bands. So I needed a solution to show notifications some minutes before the gig starts and to allow the user to jump directly to the event info page (alert action buttons).

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Boost scrum testing productivity with TestBuddy.net

We at Fusonic are developing all our main products using the Scrum method. When doing this, you will always have some of these little tasks for testing implemented features before finalizing in a sprint. Usually one developer finishes his work, another one then tests the new functions and finds one or more bugs. Then the developer fixes these bugs and testing starts over again. So far so good.

The usual approach

When working on these testing tasks, I always opened up a new Word document where i wrote down all the bugs and flaws I experienced while testing. I then sent this Word document to the developer by e-mail with a note like “please fix these issues in feature X”. After the developer replied to me that the bugs were fixed, I started over. Created another document, wrote down all the bugs and then sent them to the other developer. This process repeats until all bugs were fixed.

The new approach

What I really hated about this process was to create a document over and over again. So i thought about a tool which I could use to

• Track all the bugs
• Attach screenshots
• Discuss bugs with the developer
• See the progress, reopen bugs etc.

Since there was no tool to fulfill my requirements we decided to create one for all these little software development companies that have the same requirements than we do. We are proud to present our new online tool TestBuddy.net.

Current state

Currently only the free version is available. With this one you can

• Create new log lists anonymously
• Upload one image per list item
• Share the public link (random ID) with everyone who should be able to read it

A future release may contain support for

• Developer group accounts
• Private lists (only accessible with login)
• An easy solution to capture parts of your screen to skip the “taking a screenshot” part
• Discuss items right in the list

Since this is a very early release, please don’t expect too much of it but be excited about the idea ;) If you want to provide feedback, new ideas or bug reports, please do so in the comments!

Scripting Asp.net MVC Controllers at Runtime

Experimenting with new features can really be time consuming in a statically compiled web-framework like Asp.net. Although it is possible to edit view-files at runtime, every time you need a new method in your controller or get that last LINQ-Query right, you have to  …

…. (1) Restart your Web application
…. wait …
… wait even longer if the project is big …
… navigate to the the page where you are working at …
… just to find out that the behaviour is still not what you have expected …
… start from (1)

Well that can suck sometimes and costs you a lot of your spare time.

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Announcing Chive 0.4 – the next-gen MySQL-Admin

I’m pleased to announce the release of chive 0.4.
This release marks an important step in terms of stability of chive.
Since the last release of the 0.3 series in April we fixed 33 Bugs including some minor improvements.

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Bazaar plugin for CruiseControl

For our largest project we started using CruiseControl in combination with phpUnderControl as a continuous integration server to run unit tests and code analysis. But there was one problem: We use Bazaar as version control system and there has not been a Bazaar plugin for CruiseControl that time.

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Mono 2.6.7 parallel environment debian/ubuntu package

Last evening I packaged a parallel environment of the new Mono 2.6.7 release, which was published on July 19th.
In this release the mono team fixed around 70 bug fixes. Other highlights are:

• Asp.Net Mvc2 is included
• Latest Version of
  • Soft-Debugger
  • Mono’s xBuild Tool
  • Linq to SQL Binding

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Chive 0.3 released

It has been quite a while since Chive 0.2.0 has been released and with over 3,000 downloads we have taken a big leap to become the next generation web-based MySQL database management tool. With the release of Chive 0.3.0 we take another step towards this goal.

About 20 bugfixes and a bunch of important improvements later, we release Chive 0.3.0 on April 1st 2010. For a list of fixed bugs see the Launchpad project page (https://launchpad.net/chive). These are the most important improvements:
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