Ruby

I say Pomodoro!

After a significant amount of time and effort and the gracious help of several contributors, I’m proud to officially announce tomatoi.st.

For those in a hurry

tomatoi.st is a simple timer application that helps you implement the Pomodoro Technique. You should totally use it.

The Story

While pairing with Corey...

Or: Just Say No to Cukes

As alluded to by veez, the undercurrent from some of us at Hashrocket has been decidedly anti-cucumber. Here’s my brief littany:

• A well developed cucumber suite is invariably slow to run
• For me, at least, it makes development feel slower (this is almost certainly perceptual, but that doesn’t...

While pairing with @wesgibbs on a project at hashrocket, we got in the habbit of ‘testing’ our migrations by doing the following:

    rake db:migrate db:migrate:redo db:test:prepare

At some point; frazzled and dealing with a migration that kept breaking while running the above, I uttered: “db-db-db”, which was subsequently flipped around...