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Rube Goldberg, Professional Programmer

Program note: This essay is timed to the release of the draft-complete beta of Modern Front-End Programming with Rails. They won’t all be about the book, promise. (There will be one or two more about the book). There will be more Entropy Essays in the future about testing, object-oriented design,...

The Entropy Essays (XP 2020) #1: Test speed

There are only two things that matter when thinking about the speed of your automated tests:

The New Noel Rappin Dot Com

About, oh, eight or nine years ago, I decided I needed a personal website. On the theory that I didn’t want to become a full-time personal website wrangler, I decided to put the site on Squarespace.

The 2019 Books that Made Me Happy List

Here’s big old book list for 2019.

Books that Made me Happy 2018

Well, I failed in my plan to get this out by the end of January, but here are the books I liked in 2018. Unlike past years, here they all are in one post, I think it’s about 25. I tried, with mixed success to not write six gazillion words...

Prograph

20 some-odd years ago, when I was a graduate student, I spent about two years building Mac applications using a language called Prograph.

Developers Toolkit Cheat Sheet

These are a director’s notes on my talk “The Developer’s Toolkit”, you can also watch the video here.

Pair Programming

Truinboy: https://flic.kr/p/5pkYiv

Books I Liked in 2017, All In One Part

At long last, the 2017 books that made me happy/recommendations post. Did you miss me?

A Quick Guide to Rails System Tests in RSpec

Just this week, RSpec 3.7 was released with support for the Rails system tests added in Rails 5.1.

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