I meant to work on this post… oh about 7 months ago. Way back in January (7 months ago), Jamis Buck posted an article titled, Testing your views, which gave a few tips on using Test::Unit to, as the title suggests, test your views. While, I’m not going to rewrite everything that Jamis wrote, I’d like to show you how to test...

Our team is lucky enough to be in a position where we have both designers AND developers working on the same code base in parallel. Since Ruby on Rails adopts the Model-View-Control pattern for separating business logic from the presentation layer, we’re able to give our designers a lot of breathing room for how need to design the...

Our team is lucky enough to be in a position where we have both designers AND developers working on the same code base in parallel. Since Ruby on Rails adopts the Model-View-Control pattern for separating business logic from the presentation layer, we’re able to give our designers a lot of breathing room for how need to design the...

Our team is lucky enough to be in a position where we have both designers AND developers working on the same code base in parallel. Since Ruby on Rails adopts the Model-View-Control pattern for separating business logic from the presentation layer, we’re able to give our designers a lot of breathing room for how need to design the...

While everyone else is trading their pownce and skitch invites, I wanted to let everyone know that I still have 89 gmail invites available. Post a comment on my blog and I’ll hook you up! Happy Friday! ;-) update: only 12 left!

While everyone else is trading their pownce and skitch invites, I wanted to let everyone know that I still have 89 gmail invites available. Post a comment on my blog and I’ll hook you up! Happy Friday! ;-) update: only 12 left!

Yesterday, I started to dig deeper into YSlow and decided to pick an application that we recently launched for a client. The performance grade that I saw at first was an F, which wasn’t surprising to me because we knew that there was going to be some fine tuning in the near future. There is a lot of JavaScript in this application and we...

Yesterday, I started to dig deeper into YSlow and decided to pick an application that we recently launched for a client. The performance grade that I saw at first was an F, which wasn’t surprising to me because we knew that there was going to be some fine tuning in the near future. There is a lot of JavaScript in this application and we...

It’s been a month since I posted, Audit Your Rails Development Team and now I find myself sitting in a hotel room in Mankato, Minnesota with Graeme after a long day of walking through the documents that we delivered to our client after conducting a Rails Code Audit and Review. Our client felt that it would be a great idea to have us visit...

It’s been a month since I posted, Audit Your Rails Development Team and now I find myself sitting in a hotel room in Mankato, Minnesota with Graeme after a long day of walking through the documents that we delivered to our client after conducting a Rails Code Audit and Review. Our client felt that it would be a great idea to have us visit...

RubyURL was a project that I built about 2 1/2 years ago as a late night attempt to see what I could build and deploy with Ruby on Rails in a night. It’s nearing 50,000 unique website links, has a Ruby gem that you can use with it, and rbot plugins. I’ve rewritten it about three times in the past six months, to try out some new...

RubyURL was a project that I built about 2 1/2 years ago as a late night attempt to see what I could build and deploy with Ruby on Rails in a night. It’s nearing 50,000 unique website links, has a Ruby gem that you can use with it, and rbot plugins. I’ve rewritten it about three times in the past six months, to try out some new...

Earlier today, I was booking flights for Graeme and myself as we’re heading to Minnesota soon to visit one of our clients. While purchasing the tickets on Travelocity, I was glad to know that they remember that I’m a vegetarian. However, I almost made the mistake of submitting the form with the following meal preference for Graeme...

Earlier today, I was booking flights for Graeme and myself as we’re heading to Minnesota soon to visit one of our clients. While purchasing the tickets on Travelocity, I was glad to know that they remember that I’m a vegetarian. However, I almost made the mistake of submitting the form with the following meal preference for Graeme...

I finally decided to put my claimID to use today with the announcement that Basecamp now supports openID. This means that I can easily access all of my Basecamp project with a single login. Some of our clients have their own Basecamp projects and having everything spread around (different usernames, passwords…) made it difficult to...