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Three things I’ve had open in tabs:
Shoulda, a BDD framework for Rails. Nested contexts (yay!), assert_foo (familiar, at least), macro tests for things you [should] test a lot in Rails. Haven’t used it yet, but looks nifty.
Bang methods; or, Danger, Will Rubyist!, in which David Black provides [...]
Woke up this morning with the tune of a VAST song in my head, and decided finally to look up the lyrics, because I couldn’t possibly be remembering them correctly. (The singer has a mild case of mushmouth, and I only have VAST on my “coding” playlist, i.e., stuff I listen to while I’m [...]
I’m still on a “tech-jobs” mailing list from PCC, which is mostly crap but does contain the very occasional interesting software-development job. This excerpt, however, made me (a) laugh and (b) stop reading, so I thought I’d share it with you [emphasis added]:
“We’re looking for a developer with experience in modern OOP languages like [...]
Hot damn, I love this framework/community/way-of-looking-at-the-world. In a few hours, I just added two GUI widgets (a rich text editor and popup calendar) to spiff up a data-entry form. Granted, I had examples to swipe code from, but still… wow. Two years ago, I’d have spent a month trying to do one [...]