In last week’s blog post, I showed you how we use Lucene.Net, a code library and document database we use to manage DoneDone’s search catalog. I detailed how we structure the documents in our database and how we write search queries against it. In the second of our two posts, I’ll dive into how we
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This is the first of a two-part post on how we built DoneDone’s global search catalog. In this post, we’ll take a look at the software we use to power our global search, how queries work, and how we structure the records needed to perform a search. In next week’s post, we’ll dive into how
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At DoneDone, we’ve always committed our product to focusing on one thing and doing that one thing very well—bringing teams together to resolve issues efficiently. We don’t purport to be an “everything but the kitchen sink” solution. In fact, for us, DoneDone sits alongside a host of other focused pieces of software, including Basecamp and
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We just launched a new feature in DoneDone. It’s called the Health Report, and we think it will be a project manager’s best friend.One of the biggest problems we find with issue tracking systems today is how easy it is for issues to get stale. They’re logged, some initial conversations happen, and then suddenly….nothing. They
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If refactoring code is like carpentry, then, accomplishing its technical goals will leave some unwanted byproducts.
For nearly two decades, I’ve been writing some form of code. But, the primary reason I code has changed over time. In the beginning, I wrote code simply to make something real. It was empowering to finally run a program (after hours of debugging) and see it behave the way I had originally intended it
As many of you know, you can integrate a DoneDone project with a Slack channel or group. Any time issues are added or updated, DoneDone will automatically post a message in Slack. This is a great way to keep up with and discuss issues without having to go through email.Today, we’re excited to announce an
When you think of baseball parks in the early part of the twentieth century, you might think of Wrigley Field, Fenway Park, Yankee Stadium, or Ebbets Field. Most historians today consider these venues baseball cathedrals—there was a romantic, mystical quality to them. These places of baseball worship were—if anything—distinctive. Only at Fenway could you see
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We just introduced a new feature that many of you have been waiting for. You can now assign admins to specific projects. A project admin will have most of the capabilities an account-level admin has within a project. They can: Fully edit any issue within a project (not just ones they created, are testing or
We recently reached out to our customers with a survey on how and why they use DoneDone. We received lots of informative feedback, but one thing really stood out.When we asked why they chose DoneDone, the clear top answer was because it is a simple and easy-to-use product. This wasn’t a multiple choice question; it
