Something Smells

I have been hunting around for some code generation tools to play with. I"m really looking for something very simple like the Ruby on Rails generator. I've come to the conclusion that no one want anything easy in the .Net world. I've also been looking at some DALs, ORMs, etc. Really, most of the DALs and ORMs offered in the mainstream are just WAY too much. I really have to think that if you need some of the more advanced features of these systems you may want to relook your design. Heck you may want to read up on doing "The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work." Anyway, I use Castle's great framework called ActiveRecord . It's so simple that you really don't need code generation. As long as you keep things simple when you begin using it, you can slowly move towards the advanced stuff (if you really need it). So what was I REALLY hunting for. I'm really looking for a database schema upgrade (or migration) that's as simple as activeRecord. A...

I'm starting a new Open Source project. It will be a Planning Poker game for distributed teams. Here's the blurb on the project site: The planning poker on rails website will allow distributed teams to play planning poker. It will track user stories and the points assigned to each story. It should also allow for quick access to archived stories as references for future planning games. Each player should be allowed to place a card (estimated effort). Once the cards are all placed the application will reveal the estimates to everyone. If no concensus is made then each player will have the floor to make comments. As each player makes his or her comments the application will move to the next player. Once all players have no more comments OR a player presses the VOTE NOW button. The computer will take another vote this continues until concensus is made OR all player agree to table the vote. Before you google it...YES another project already does this. So, you may ask, "why...