Compromising Quality for Schedule

I found myself silently cheering for Uncle Bob as he described a recent presentation where the speaker had just about given up on ever getting better code quality, because businesses didn’t value it.

His claim that crappy code is inevitable is based on the notion that crappy code is cheaper than clean code, and [...]

April 28th, 2009 | Category: software development, test driven development | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

Ruby On Rails Site Down

I hopped over to http://rubyonrails.org about 7:40pm PST and found this surprise. After a few tries I confirmed it looks like they there’s a real issue. This is decidedly not what I was expecting. Hopefully it’s fixed soon.

April 22nd, 2009 | Category: ruby, software development | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)

Fast Deploy with Groovy Google App Engine

On a whim I setup a Google App Engine account and an hour later I had the hello world Groovy example up and running. They recently added a Java option to the current Python stack. I pulled a quick tutorial from Guillaume Laforge on launching a Groovy web app. A few downloads and a [...]

April 14th, 2009 | Category: software development | Comments are closed