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College Roomate: So you know vi? Me: Of course, that would be command shift-Z-Z This is a conversation I had about twenty years ago. For most of my Unix editing I got by with pico and I found the modal nature of vi downright frustrating. Hence the importance of knowing the command to escape [...] I’ve been running Jenkins as my CI solution for years now, but for the first 6 months at my new job I used it in an entirely new way. The typical CI pattern is you setup to run against checkins to your master branch run all the unit tests, and depending on how sophisticated you [...] Working with my pair yesterday we ran into an issue testing a view that pulled in several partials. In the interest of making progress we punted after about half an hour of trying to setup expectations on the partials and just tested the negative cases where we didn’t have to worry about the partials being [...] My daughter spent an hour the other day cutting holes, drawing red bricks, and pasting grass along the bottom of a simple cardboard box. It’s a common story among parents, especially of small children that despite spending a lot of money on a gift, the kid ends up enjoying the box and ignoring the toy. [...] As a software manager and developer I’ve followed the gradual adoption of DSLs as a mainstream technique. I’ve worked with numerous DSLs including: Rails RSpec Easymock, Mockito Selenium Grails, GORM Rake Ant (as ugly as an XML DSL is) RSpec was a wonder at the time compared to JUnit 3 where I spent the [...] Not too long ago a local recruiter noted at a JUG meeting: “I don’t care what else you have on your resume, but you have to have Spring and Hibernate. I know it was all EJB and SOA just a few years ago, but now if you don’t have Spring/Hibernate you’re not getting past [...] A few weeks ago at the local Ruby Users Group meeting there was a suggestion of actually writing some code at the meeting. The suggestion was to use a Ruby Quiz exercise. It was quiz #16, a Rock, Paper, Scissors simulation. We broke up into small groups of about three people, coded for maybe [...] Recently I’ve been catching up with the Ruby world again in my limited spare time. I had an idea for a fun little hobby project, but I wanted to actually do it BDD style and in Rails 2. I dug a bit into RSpec again and realized they had a new BDD tool called Cucumber. [...] 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. Automated testing is one of the most important parts of software development, and yet until now, we haven’t mentioned it. Testing a piece of software relies on a thorough understanding of the tools you are using, and designing tests can be far more difficult (and enjoyable) than writing the code itself. – Head First [...] |
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