Day Two of the Craftsmanship Swap:The day started off with a bit of work on slim for C with Doug Bradbury. Slim is a replacement for Fit which underlies Fitnesse and you need to write one for every language you plan to use FitNesse on. I gave it my best shot , but then Uncle Bob (Bob Martin - father of 8th Light founder Micah Martin) and James...

Day One of the Craftsmanship Swap:Today Micah and I paired on test driving a user interface through FitNesse. The UI in question is a JRuby rich client application that had reached the point where they wanted to have some acceptance tests that fire it up, click around, and assert that things are where they should be. We used DRb to stow away a...

Day One of the Craftsmanship Swap:Today Micah and I paired on test driving a user interface through FitNesse. The UI in question is a JRuby rich client application that had reached the point where they wanted to have some acceptance tests that fire it up, click around, and assert that things are where they should be. We used DRb to stow away a...

This morning instead of taking a train to downtown Chicago I'll be driving to the northern suburb of Libertyville and working at 8th Light for a week. Obtiva (my company) is participating in a craftsman swap so 8th Light will be sending someone down to Obtiva whilst I work with 8th Light. This should be pretty interesting as the last time I...

This morning instead of taking a train to downtown Chicago I'll be driving to the northern suburb of Libertyville and working at 8th Light for a week. Obtiva (my company) is participating in a craftsman swap so 8th Light will be sending someone down to Obtiva whilst I work with 8th Light. This should be pretty interesting as the last time I...

When we built SQuiD (easy project management for link building), we had a problem in that the client was on a limited budget and yet the site had to charge people subscriptions for usage. Which, if we wrote that part ourselves, would take all sorts of time to research, implement, and (most importantly) not screw up. When you take people's...

When we built SQuiD (easy project management for link building), we had a problem in that the client was on a limited budget and yet the site had to charge people subscriptions for usage. Which, if we wrote that part ourselves, would take all sorts of time to research, implement, and (most importantly) not screw up. When you take people's...

Just a quick note to let you all know that Rails Conf accepted my talk. It's called "Using metric_fu to Make Your Rails Code Better" and you can find more details here. If you'd like to join me in Vegas for 15% off you can use this nifty code: RC09FOS Hope to see you there.

Just a quick note to let you all know that Rails Conf accepted my talk. It's called "Using metric_fu to Make Your Rails Code Better" and you can find more details here. If you'd like to join me in Vegas for 15% off you can use this nifty code: RC09FOS Hope to see you there.

Today, for some reason, I was thinking about a start-up I worked on few years ago and how we could go really fast because (almost) no one used the darn thing.When you're working on a small budget you need to get that code out into the wild as soon as possible so you can figure out if this idea of yours has any legs. So maybe you test a bit less...

Today, for some reason, I was thinking about a start-up I worked on few years ago and how we could go really fast because (almost) no one used the darn thing.When you're working on a small budget you need to get that code out into the wild as soon as possible so you can figure out if this idea of yours has any legs. So maybe you test a bit less...

For the last few months I've been working on SQuiD: A website that helps you get a better Google ranking through totally honest means. There's a lot of not so honest and even downright nefarious ways to try and increase page rank, but this site takes the high road and focuses on link building. Link building is way of taking a look at your...

For the last few months I've been working on SQuiD: A website that helps you get a better Google ranking through totally honest means. There's a lot of not so honest and even downright nefarious ways to try and increase page rank, but this site takes the high road and focuses on link building. Link building is way of taking a look at your...

I released metric_fu 0.9.0 last night and just look at all the super cool changes since 0.8.0:Flay task finds duplication and structural similarities in your projectReek identifies common code smellsRoodi finds mistakes and troublesome codeA configuration class so you can configure like the big boysStandardization of the reports look and...

I released metric_fu 0.9.0 last night and just look at all the super cool changes since 0.8.0:Flay task finds duplication and structural similarities in your projectReek identifies common code smellsRoodi finds mistakes and troublesome codeA configuration class so you can configure like the big boysStandardization of the reports look and...