ideyatech – where ideas and technologies meet. It’s clear from our tagline where the name comes from – idea and technology. Idea is formally defined as “a thought or suggestion as to a possible course of action; an opinion or belief” while technology is “the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes”. When combined, these [...]

While I can describe ideyatech as a company by what we do, what we specialize and who among the Fortune 500 are our clients, it doesn’t give justice to the people who committed themselves and worked hard everyday to satisfy our clients and bring us to where we are now. Instead, I’d like to describe [...]

I’ve recently come across unfuddle(http://www.unfuddle.com) which is a project tracking tool and hosted source repository. This site is built on RoR and behaves similar with Basecamp. I’m currently using Basecamp for my projects… it’s pretty good but I find it a little too limited for other things such as defect and issue tracking. Currently, I [...]

After setting up Continuum, I find it reasonably good to support continuous integration (for a free/open-source solution).The package for download is ready to run and easy to configure. This supports Agile development, quick-turn around. Initially, I was skeptic setting up this tool considering it may take me 3-5 days to setup. Well, I was wrong… [...]

We have seen successful roll-out of Just-In-Time concept in manufacturing. This technique was popularized by Toyota with their car manufacturing process. With proper coordination, they are able to adjust their production line easily when certain demand increases. For example, if report shows increase in demand on a specific model or color, they call their suppliers [...]