May 9, 2012: The Random Link Post Returns
And now, the return of the semi-occasional link post. I’m going to try to do this at least once a week, but who knows.
If you are writing JavaScript, you should be looking at Justin Searls and his JavaScript testing tools. Justin posted the slid...
August 24, 2010: Um.. Hi?
It’s very easy to let this blog habit slip through your fingers. You go from, “put something up every weekday”, to “nobody reads this on Friday”, to “I’m tired this mornng”, to “wow, I haven’t posted in a week, and nobody noticed, why post today”. Anyway, here’s a post. Book Status Beta 6 came out...
Aug 9, 2010: I Shouda Seen This Coming
Book Status The Shoulda chapter is draft complete, after a slight restructuring to change the emphasis of the chapter, and a lot of syntax changes. My previous version of the chapter was written before Shoulda went in the direction of RSpec compatibility and so there were a lot of syntax changes that needed to be...
July 19, 2010: Building a Legacy
And Now A Word The schedule for WindyCityRails 2010 just came out. WindyCityRails is Saturday, Sept, 11 at the Westin Chicago River North. I will be running the PM tutorial session on “Testing in a Legacy Environment”. I am frequently asked how to start testing on a pre-existing code base with no tests. In this...
July 13, 2010: I Guess It Isn’t A Dynabook Yet
Status Back to link posts today. The book is still lurching forward on the legacy chapter. Thanks to those couple of you that asked questions on the forum and made it look a little less lonely over there. Quick Review Quick iPhone 4 impressions, but understand that I haven’t actually, you know, used it yet,...
July 7, 2010: Dylan Goes Electric (Probably Not True)
Book Status Beta 4 should be available this week, or at the latest Monday, apparently we’re working around people’s vacation schedules. It will have two new chapters, and some error fixes and tweaks around the book. Next is on to Beta 5. In status news that shouldn’t interest you much, the end of the quarter...
July 2, 2010: Cease and or desist
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 post...
June 16, 2010: What Shoulda We Do?
Top Story Thoughtbot talks about their plans for Shoulda moving forward. The big takeaway is that, while the context library will be separated out for use in Test::Unit, both Shoulda style and Shoulda effort will be focused on RSpec integration. I have some complicated thoughts about this one. I’m thrilled that Shoulda is being maintained...
June 1, 2010: June, she’ll change her tune
iPad Note I keep wanting to write about the iPad, but so, so many other people are writing about it that I’m not sure I have anything to add. More or less at random, I really liked the brief rant Joe Posnanski added in the middle of an otherwise-unrelated blog post, and Charles Stross’ typically...
Rails Rx Standup: April 12, 2010
Top Story For a while, it looked like the top story was going to be Apple’s new developer Rule 3.3.1, described here by John Gruber. More on that in a second. But the real top story is the news that Twitter has bought Tweetie, intending to rebrand it as Twitter for iPhone, and dropping the...
Double Shot #539
Busy weekend, busier week coming. Hopefully this means I’m headed back towards the “feast” part of consulting.
Static: a super simple Rails CMS for Heroku – Just about as simple as simple can be. Looks like the next step up from something like Staticmatic for brochure sites.
Engine Yard And GitHub Transition – Let’s hope this doesn’t...
20 articles on Cucumber and a free beverage recipe!
Cucumber has been getting quite a bit of attention in the community and with the new RSpec Book on nearing publication, I predict that by this time next year, it’ll become a household word like boanthropy.
What is Cucumber?
The Cucumber project describes itself as a suite that, “lets software development teams describe how...
