Melissa Burpo

  • Record and automate web processes with CoScripter
    IBM recently released CoScripter , a (phenomenally cool) Firefox extension that records actions performed in a web browser and translates the actions into automated scripts and human-readable instructions. For example, to show someone how to check the weather, do the following: Open the CoScripter sidebar in Firefox. Select the New icon and click Record . Navigate through the steps in Firefox. Select Save . CoScriptor translates your actions into editable text and viewable steps. After it’s saved, users can view the text only instructions and run...
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  • Seeking Agile Software Developers
    Work for one of the most progressive development shops in the US , building a new software product line with pioneering technologies. > Test-driven development > Continuous integration > Behavior-driven design > Domain-driven design > HTML, CSS, Javascript > Monorail, ASP .NET > .NET Orcas > Entity Framework > SQL 2005 > WF > WCF > LINQ > C# 3.0 > Ruby > Watir > FIT Who we’re looking for || Dovetail Software is staffing a new team for an innovative software project. We’re looking for senior software...
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  • Permalink: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 3:24 PM
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  • Dovetail Admin 2.4 Release
    Dovetail Admin 2.4 has been released and includes two major enhancements. First of all, we have improved the navigation menu to help you perform your required tasks with more efficiency and ease (see the first screenshot below). And most importantly, this new version completes the product management aspect of our administrative application with several new pages that will allow you to easily organize and manage your products and services. Managing Part Numbers Part Classes Page Add, remove, and update the classes that define a part number’s type....
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  • Permalink: Friday, February 16, 2007 9:26 AM
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  • Don't lose your users in abstraction
    In our agile environment, we write user stories to define the features and requirements of the product – specifically, these one to two sentence cards briefly describe how a user can use it. I’m the new tech writer at Dovetail, and I sit right next to the user story board in the programmer’s bullpen. When I look at the story cards, I see statements like, “As a case worker, I can resolve a case to complete the rendering of service to the customer,” and “As a system administrator, I can provision user accounts in order to grant access to the system.”...
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  • Permalink: Friday, January 26, 2007 1:28 PM
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