• Name: John Talintyre
• Email:
• Company Name: Barclays Capital
• Company URL: http://www.barcap.com
• Country: UK
• Hear From: colleague
• Comment: Previously introduced TWiki at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and put in newer version at the Royal Bank of Scotland. Currently employer uses OpenWiki which is okay but not as functional as TWiki
• Used to be a member of CoreTeam

Development

http://martinfowler.com/articles/agileOffshore.html	Martin Fowler on offshore Agile
http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller/archive/2005/12/19/135757.aspx	Mocks (vs stubs) - NMock perspective

Tools and software

Tools

What	Cost	Where
Aqua Data Studio - Java Database query and admin.	Small fee for commercial use.	http://www.aquafold.com
Remote control. Taking over PC via browser is particularly useful.	Free	http://www.realvnc.com
Visual file/directory diff and merge tool. Best visual file diff I've seen.	122 EUR	http://www.araxis.com/merge/
Directory tree space usage. Java Web start based.	Free	http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/
A Windows editor I've got used to	26 GBP	http://www.textpad.com/
A promising looking diff/merge tool. Can't do character level differences like Arixis	Free - GPL	http://winmerge.org/

Possibly good tools

File Commander type tool - only had a quick look so far

Shareware 28 EUR

http://www.ghisler.com/download.htm

Tools suggested by others

What	Cost	Where	Comment
Sql compare		http://www.red-gate.com/products/SQL_Compare/index.htm
MS DB tools		http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/02/TeamEdition/default.aspx	Similar to Sql compare
Ftp tool		http://www.cuteftp.com/
Turboexcel - compiles Excel to C++		http://www.turboexcel.com

Good Open Source Software

I've used it in projects and would happily use again.

What	Where
Torque, Java Persistance Layer - auto produces Java for database access. Although these days everyone seems to use Hibernate	http://db.apache.org/torque/
Rules in Java - essentially Prolog in Java i.e. backward chaining logic. Has simple editior and Java API	http://mandarax.sourceforge.net/
Log SQL when using JDBC.	http://www.p6spy.com/
Java report generator	http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/

Possible Open Source Software

Suggested to me or have a look at seems promising.

What	Where
Java data reconiliation tool	http://sourceforge.net/projects/soshi
Grab CVS tree using just http - for when cvs is blocked by a firewall. Note that not all Web CVS viewers are supported	http://cvsgrab.sourceforge.net/
Windows directory/file differences program	http://sourceforge.net/projects/winmerge/
Deal with locked files in Windows	http://emcosoftware.com/move-on-boot

Possible books

• http://www.designofsites.com/

Of interest

At least to me

• My Wife's Web site - http://www.holiday-solutions.co.uk
• A Web site I've done for a local orchestra - http://www.brentwoodphil.org.uk
• http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html - excellent and clearly written paper on Continuous Integration

Also on TWiki

Interesting topics !

• PrintUsingPDF
• PopupPageIndexForEditing
• SavePreviewTextOnServer
• SimplifyInternalMetaDataHandling

Related topics

• TWikiPreferences has site-level preferences of TWiki.
• WebPreferences has preferences of the TWiki.Main web.
• TWikiUsers has a list of other TWiki users.

Personal Preferences (details in TWikiVariables)

• Horizontal size of text edit box:
  • Set EDITBOXWIDTH = 120
• Vertical size of text edit box:
  • Set EDITBOXHEIGHT = 45
• Default state of the link check box in the attach file page:
  • Set ATTACHLINKBOX =
• Optionally write protect your home page: (set it to your WikiName)
  • Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = JohnTalintyre

• Default on edit is to release lock on save
  • Set RELEASEEDITLOCKCHECKBOX = checked="checked"

• • Set HTTP_EQUIV_ON_VIEW1 =