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I just had a brainwave. For a little while I’ve been wondering about how ineffectual setting the Component seems to be in Jira. Many end users don’t know what component the issue affects, initial assessment is often wrong, and most of the time it just feels like you are entering data for data’s sake:

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I had the pleasure of attending a free Groovy and Grails seminar hosted at SkillsMatter in London by Dierk König and Graeme Rocher.
Having used Groovy already for some months but not having had time to extensively learn its full feature set, I found out some interesting things I hadn’t noticed / remembered. This includes ranges […]

I’ve been using Jira issue tracker for some years now for software development. I’ve also helped to roll it out at several client sites, which has given me the opportunity to see the different ways of approaching the issues of release versioning and dealing with workload and build cycles that have to hit hard deadlines.
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The more I have to use these online property sites (for purchase or rental) the more it drives me nuts. The people behind these sites obviously lack enthusiasm when it comes to usability or user-oriented design. Have they thought that many people may be using their site on a daily basis for six months or […]

While reading the excellent Lifehacker site’s blog this morning I happened upon an article on site YourGreenDream which carries news about environmental developments and so on.
The article is about a company called Prism Solar Technologies that has developed a method of using a hologram over a layer of glass to redirect sunlilght to solar PV […]