2010
April 2010 Ruby Hong Kong Meetup
William gone through his experience looking for a light weight full text search indexer. after considering scalability, memory consumption, database_dependent? and stability and he picked Xapian with Xapain-Fu interface. He showed us how easy to start using Xapian.
another candidate Solr was recommended for larger scale enterprise level architecture.
links to Xapian and Solr:
http://github.com/johnl/xapian-fu
http://lucene.apache.org/solr/
Adam demonstrated two awesome free agile project management tools:
- Pivotal Tracker http://www.pivotaltracker.com/
- Story Mapper (Carbon Five) http://www.trackerstorymaps.com/
Pivotal Tracker is a full-feature tool which handles user story, backlog, release, … etc.
Story Mapper integrates on top of Pivotal Tracker to manage large projects with lots of stories, modules and complicated releases.
They provide clean and smooth-running user interface to visualize everything. well-organized.
check out other 3rd party tools here: www.pivotaltracker.com/help/thirdpartytools
