lazybuilder v0.3
The idea for lazybuilder came up during a recent coding dojo doing code kata. We were using Vim and a separate terminal to run the tests. Switching back and forth between two windows when trying to …
Development
Create MySQL database with Capistrano
I was playing about with Capistrano over the weekend. I wanted to automate the deployment of a Rails application to my server. The server was (I thought) just about ready to accept the app but I did …
Rake db:migrate MySQL gem dependency
If you have already added gem ‘mysql2’ to your Gemfile but get a message saying that it is missing when you try to migrate Make sure that you have installed libmysql-ruby sudo apt-get …
Progressive Enhancement
Progressive Enhancement is a web development technique or pattern. The basic premise is that a web site should be accessible to all users and then to overlay additional functionality based on the …
Technology Synergy
I started writing this post quite some time ago but never got around to wrapping up the loose ends. The article is really a summary of what I learnt during a pretty intense media web site development …
Testing - what to test when
After tweeting that I wanted to have suggestions for blog entries I got a single reply asking for my thoughts on DAO and unit testing – essentially asking should DAO be unit tested. The problem with …
Scraping Railscasts
I had a few moments today to get reacquainted with Ruby and Rails programming. It has been a while but I have found time to watch the occasional Railscast. I want to watch these videos while on the …
Server rebuild – part 1
I have been running my own server for some time now but my requirements have changed and the current underlying VM architecture does not conveniently support what I want to do. The current linux …
The rise and fall of waterfall - on you tube
If you have been in software development for a while this might make you chuckle :) The Rise And Fall Of Waterfall
Testing abstrations
These ideas were presented as at ThoughtWorks Agile Southeast conference in Atlanta. The idea for these diagrams came about after the first time I spoke about web test driven development at Agile …