Rietveld Code Review Tool

Guido van Rossum, a Google App Engine developer, has released into open source the Rietveld Code Review Tool at http://codereview.appspot.com. This web application ties into a subversion repository to create a work flow for the review and commenting of newly submitted code.

This tool was born from an Google internal tool that Guido developed called Mondrian. Guido gave a Google TechTalk on the Mondrian tool called Mondrian Code Review On The Web (YouTube link). This TechTalk provides insight into how the work flow operates and how helpful a tool like this can be. Perhaps something to play with on your next project…

Resources

Overview of Rietveld Code Review Tool
http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/rietveld.html

Rietveld Code Review Tool online Demo
http://codereview.appspot.com/

Documentation
http://code.google.com/p/rietveld/w/list

Source code
http://code.google.com/p/rietveld/source/checkout

Mondrian Code Review on the Web (Google TechTalk Video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMql3Di4Kgc

Ajax Performance Analysis

IBM developerWorks has a great article by Kristopher William Zyp on the tools and methods used to analyze Ajax application performance titled Ajax performance analysis. It provides a good overview of what affects an Ajax based application, the tools to probe these aspects and actions developers can take to help speed things up. Much of the information revolves around YSlow and Firebug and provides a great overview for developers who may be unfamiliar with nuances of client side development.

Resources

Ajax performance analysis
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-aj-perform/