ThoughtWorks employee Muness Alrubaie filled in for Neil Ford at OSCON, giving a talk on Testing in the Web Tier. He's mentioned the standbys like Selenium and Firebug, but he also covered Crosscheck. I'll just quote from their website. Crosscheck is an open source testing framework for verifying your in-browser javascript. It helps you ensure...

It's a long story, but last night I verbally accepted an offer to work on a very cool project at Cisco. They have an enterprise Rails and Java project that I find very interesting. The technology stack is pretty big, so I may be dipping back into other technologies as well. It is a full-time position, not a consulting gig, so this will...

It's a long story, but last night I verbally accepted an offer to work on a very cool project at Cisco. They have an enterprise Rails and Java project that I find very interesting. The technology stack is pretty big, so I may be dipping back into other technologies as well. It is a full-time position, not a consulting gig, so this will...

I got mail from Fred Medlin today about a Tangler group he started to help extend the NFJS experience. Come drop in and contribute as well as learn. Make the most of your NFJS experience. No Fluff Just Stuff Tangler page In Fred's words: I've been digging tangler lately and I wondered if others would, too. So, I created a NFJS group because I...

I got mail from Fred Medlin today about a Tangler group he started to help extend the NFJS experience. Come drop in and contribute as well as learn. Make the most of your NFJS experience. No Fluff Just Stuff Tangler page In Fred's words: I've been digging tangler lately and I wondered if others would, too. So, I created a NFJS group because I...

I've been absolutely swamped lately, so thought I'd write a quick post with some updates. This weekend the No Fluff Just Stuff tour came to town. The Research Triangle Software Symposium was really great. Someone told me "I finally get why you rave about the show so much. Every topic has been great and every speaker is polished and very well...

I've been absolutely swamped lately, so thought I'd write a quick post with some updates. This weekend the No Fluff Just Stuff tour came to town. The Research Triangle Software Symposium was really great. Someone told me "I finally get why you rave about the show so much. Every topic has been great and every speaker is polished and very well...

I saw this today and had to pass it on. Apparently Rails can handle a Slashdotting just fine. Like any other web technology, you can create scalable applications, or not. As long as you make reasonable technology choices, it's up to you and your architecture to scale. Rails, Slashdotted: no problem Everyone tells me that Rails is supposed to be...

I saw this today and had to pass it on. Apparently Rails can handle a Slashdotting just fine. Like any other web technology, you can create scalable applications, or not. As long as you make reasonable technology choices, it's up to you and your architecture to scale. Rails, Slashdotted: no problem Everyone tells me that Rails is supposed to be...

I'm giving a talk at OSCON on extending your Rails application with C and I thought I'd blog on a few gotchas as I work on the demo application and publish my preliminary "benchmark". (Don't get upset... it's not really a benchmark.) I'm going to use two technologies for my C integration. RubyInline is used for dropping C in line to your Ruby...

I'm giving a talk at OSCON on extending your Rails application with C and I thought I'd blog on a few gotchas as I work on the demo application and publish my preliminary "benchmark". (Don't get upset... it's not really a benchmark.) I'm going to use two technologies for my C integration. RubyInline is used for dropping C in line to your Ruby...

Rob really nailed it with this blog entry. He's talking about how and why great developers get booted up into the management track and why that's a really dumb way to treat your tech talent, not to mention just plain bad business. You can read about the same idea on Wikipedia under the Peter Principle article. It basically says that we are...

Rob really nailed it with this blog entry. He's talking about how and why great developers get booted up into the management track and why that's a really dumb way to treat your tech talent, not to mention just plain bad business. You can read about the same idea on Wikipedia under the Peter Principle article. It basically says that we are...

Act fast and get your discount to see Andy Hunt and myself in the first Ship It! LIVE: DC Edition. The early bird discount expires June 29th. Act now. Operators are standing by. Ship It! LIVE: DC Edition FYI, this is only scheduled Ship It! LIVE on the east coast.

Act fast and get your discount to see Andy Hunt and myself in the first Ship It! LIVE: DC Edition. The early bird discount expires June 29th. Act now. Operators are standing by. Ship It! LIVE: DC Edition FYI, this is only scheduled Ship It! LIVE on the east coast.