Noel Rappin Writes Here (Page 27)
Strained Sports Metaphor About Process
If there’s one thing about software development that has been hammered into my skull the last few months, it’s the idea that the details of your development process are less important than the mere idea that you have a process.
June 3, 2010: Get your Kicks on Route resources :user
Geoffrey Grossenbach at Peepcode posted a typically beautiful post/rant about Rails routing.
June 2, 2010: How To Test Good
Gave my talk at Chicago Ruby. The video is already online – yay Chicago Ruby team. I was pleased with it, actually, I did pretty much what I hoped to do, except that I thought the repetition joke would get a bigger laugh.
June 1, 2010: June, she'll change her tune
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...
May 28, 2010: Friday Friday Friday
Short today, but preparing some longer, more rant-y bits for the future…
May 27, 2010: Random stuff today
I think we’re going to be even more random then usual today. Here goes:
May 26, 2010: Answer The Question Please
Got interviewed yesterday by Miles Forrest and Curtis McHale of the coderpath podcast. Presumably it’ll be out and public in the next couple of weeks. You’ll be the first person I tell.
May 24, 2010: Martin Gardner
Rails 2.3.6 released, with more changes than I expected, taking it just a little bit beyond a bug-fix release. Follow the link for the full release notes.
May 21, 2010: Meetings
Committed what I hope will be the Beta 3 version of the Cucumber chapter. Most of the changes were in the various conclusions. When I originally wrote the chapter, Cucumber was still quite new, and I had kind of a ragged set of thoughts about how it should be used....