May 20, 2010: Fontastic
Book Status Starting to sound repetitive. Still working on the Cuke chapter, this time focusing on cleaning up the parts where I recommend ways to use Cucumber. Still hoping for a beta early next week. Other things This week in Yehuda, there’s a very long article about text encodings and what problems they have, and...
May 3, 2010: Hi, I’m Back
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 a...
April 27, 2010, Now Writing About Cucumbers
Top Story For me, the top story is still Rails Test Prescriptions on sale, and my discussion yesterday of the raffle for the old Lulu customers. Book Status Now re-doing the Cucumber chapter, which was written long enough ago that it didn’t consider tags. Cucumber has had approximately seventy-million releases in the interim, so there’s...
April 23, 2010: Still Alive
Top Story If you think the top story is going to be anything other than the continued launch of Rails Test Prescriptions, well, you probably don’t know me very well. I may not be a marketing genius, but I do know the value of repetition. I mean, if there’s one thing I know, it’s the...
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...
Because Gem Names Are Like Domains in the 90′s
In which I release a new gem that adds the whois command to Rubygems.
Riot: for fast, expressive and focused unit tests
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 or...
Let a human test your app, not (just) unit tests
I’m a big believer in unit testing. We unit test our Rails apps extensively, and we’ve done so for years. On some projects, we do both unit testing and integration testing using Cucumber. I preach unit testing to everyone I can. I’d...
Double Shot #569
Not too much of note over the weekend. Maybe everyone was at startup school.
eCSStender 1.0 – Javascript to bludgeon older browsers into paying attention to advanced CSS.
shindo – “Simple depth first ruby testing” provides yet another test framework.
assert{2.0} – And here’s “the industry’s most aggressive TDD system” which uses reflection to dump debugging information in...
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...
Double Shot #522
There is way too much on my desk waiting to be done. I blame running around to things with the kids.
Heroku Sass – Yep, the Heroku guys have worked out a way to use Sass on their quick and easy hosting.
ActiveRecord refererential integrity is broken. Let’s fix it! – Personally I’d welcome moves to have...
Double Shot #507
Wait, it’s still July? This month may never end.
acts_as_taggable_on_steroids was REALLY slow – A case where having some MySQL knowledge turned out to be critical.
Embrace Technical Debt – An argument that sometimes writing sloppy code isn’t such a bad thing to do.
Freshlog – Screen capture for OS X that can automatically create Lighthouse or Unfuddle...
