Book Status RSpec chapter draft handed in to edit. It’s going to need a better conclusion. A lot changed in this one, relative to the Lulu version — this is probably the chapter most affected by my own personal experience since it’s original version. Links Haven’t done a link set in a while, this...
Read more »
Book Status Beta 4 should be going out Real Soon Now. As far as I know everything is ready and we’re just waiting for it to actually be generated. Still working on legacy coding chapter. Links A couple of links about hiring today. One debate is between Ben Orenstein and Brian Liles about whether...
Read more »
Book Status And now I turn my lonely eyes to the chapter on testing legacy code. I liked this chapter in the original book, and it’s something I get asked about pretty consistently, so I really want to make it great. Links I’m personally going to spend a lot of time with David Chelimsky’s...
Read more »
Hey, where were you? Sorry about that, I spent most of last week running the Obtiva Ruby/Rails/TDD 4-day boot camp training, and I didn’t have time to do this daily catchup. Hey, if you think you need me or somebody like me to come to your company and blather about Ruby and Rails for...
Read more »
A few weeks ago I started a new side project (a string-figure catalog, not yet ready for an audience, sadly), and I figured it would be a good opportunity to dabble in the new goodies in Rails 3. It’s been a fun experience, for the most part, but I’ll save my “wins and fails”...
Read more »
With the announcement of the iPad, the usual suspects have come out decrying a closed, proprietary, fully locked down system.
For instance, a story on the top of Hacker News today says:
This is what I asked in January 2007 on this site, shortly after the original iPhone was launched:
“1. Will Apple lock down the iPhone,...
Read more »
Up for my first manic burst of work for the day.DailyJS – A roundup of JavaScript stuff from Alex Young, Ric Roberts, and Justin Knowlden. It’s off to a promising start.
Fixtures without validation with Factory Girl – Nice idea for generating bad data in a concise and repeatable way.
fast_fixture – Develop with MyISAM, test...
Read more »
As mentioned in a recent article1, I’ve been diving deep into Google Analytics lately while working on a few client projects. We’re aiming to use much more of the features of Google Analytics and have been hitting some roadblocks with the development versus production application environments. Once you begin to dive into...
Read more »
Riot is a new Ruby test framework by Justin Knowlden that focuses on faster testing. Justin was frustrated with his slow running test suites, despite employing techniques such as using factories, mocks and avoiding database access. He realized that a slow-running suite makes one reluctant to run it...
Read more »
Earlier this week our new podcast was approved and is now available in the Apple iTunes Store. We’re also soliciting topic ideas for future episodes on brainstormr.
We posted Episode 2, The Letter Scotch, yesterday for your enjoyment. In this episode, we covered a handful of web browser tools that we...
Read more »
#rails – Twitter Search