Alex Chafee and Brian Takita of Pivotal Labs mix regular rails tests including fixtures with Selenium tests for a full stack test in one. They kicked off the 2nd Annual Silicon Valley Ruby Conference in style with a focus on testing. Few thought it odd to be talking about testing early in the morning. Rails [...]
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SD Forums opened up the registration for the Silicon Valley Ruby Conference a few days ago. So far they’ve got: Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo: The JRuby Guys from Sun Microsystems Asuman Suenbuel: SAP Josh Susser: Powerset “Ruby and Rails” Tom Preston-Werner: “Chronic” It’s April 21 and 22, but no location announced yet. But JRuby, [...] I’ve been looking for a nearby Ruby or Rails conference to attend for the last six months or so, and I finally spotted one this evening on Josh Susser’s blog. Turns out SD Forum is going to be running a weekend Ruby conference April 21st and 22nd. The details are still not all there including [...] I’ve seen the symptoms occur in every IT shop I’ve worked in, though rarely in consulting firms. They symptoms are: The CIO/CTO sees something about a new product that’s buzzword compliant be that Y2K certified, agile, or SOA. The tool costs at least six figures. The tool is “enterprise class” whatever that means. The tool [...] In a short talk at SD West 2006 Alistair Cockburn described a lot of different office layouts including this technical discussion area: It would be really nice to setup something like this. Haven’t really had anything like it though since the dotcom days. And back at least a few times people fell asleep on [...] Crucible, a code review tool from fine folks at Cenqua, is finally closing in on a real beta release. (Disclaimer we’re already use Cenqua’s Clover product.) I talked to Brendan from Cenqua at SD West 2006, and he explained that Crucible was supposed to be Cenqua’s second project after Clover. Turns out Fisheye was a [...] “If you like this presentation, feel free to buy one of my books, they have them up at the bookstore. Or you can just give me five dollars, I’ll make more money that way.” – Luke Hohmann (SD West 2006) So in case you didn’t already know, writing a technical book isn’t a venture you [...] I attended a talk today at SD West 2006 really hoping to hear some hard earned lessons on better approaches to JSF development. Heck, the talk was entitled: JavaServer Faces Programming and Best Practices Unfortunately I got a high level overview of JSF and how great it is will be with JSF 1.2. The whole [...] At SD West 2006 today I attended a talk by Cedric Beust on TestNG entitled: Beyond JUnit: Introducing TestNG, Testing the Next Generation In 90 minutes he made a compelling argument for TestNG. It obviously has more features than JUnit and you can use the annotation features even if you’re stuck on Java 1.4 since [...] Software Awards are funny things. At the Jolt awards these were the big soda can winners: General Book: Prefactoring General Technical Book: Agile Web Development with Ruby on Rails Enterprise Project Management: WelcomRisk 2.6 Database Engines and Data Tools: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Defect Tracking, Change, and Configuration Management: Perforce SCM 2005 Design Tools and [...] |
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