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Goodbye, Feedburner

Jeff — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:09:52 +0000

Google’s pretty much destroyed FeedBurner, so I will no longer be using the service. If you are subscribed via a feedburner feed, please unsubscribe and resubscribe via the RSS link in the sidebar, or the address bar.

Feature Branches

Jeff — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:45:21 +0000

Martin Fowler has a good article on cherry picking features to compose a release. Check it out so that the next time your manager wants to pick and choose what to include in a release you’re ready with why it’s not that easy1

Introducing FreezBeat

Jeff — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:53:58 +0000

I’d like to introduce you to the latest creation from Snowmoon Software, FreezBeat. It’s an indispensable little utility that keeps you from missing a beat of your favorite music, a scene from the latest movie, or a word from that podcast. Just how does it do that? Read on! First, a little background. I work [...]

Trusster: From Drupal to Wordpress

Jeff — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:51:32 +0000

Another day, another updated web site. A client wanted to convert his existing website from drupal 6 to Wordpress 2.8. They wanted to make the switch because Drupal became too unwieldy to configure, manage and to extend. The integrated forums left much to be desired and the lack of a good antispam module meant that [...]

New sites launched

Jeff — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:27:13 +0000

I’ve been busy over the past few months, working on various web sites and applications. Not only am I working on a redesign of Snowmoon Software, I’ve launched the following sites: Nicky’s Fight - Meet Nicky, a wonderful young boy with Neuroblastoma. Please consider donating something to his cause. Handmade Soap – Brenda L. makes a [...]

Review: Envycasts What’s New In Rails 2.2

Jeff — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:29:33 +0000

So Jason Seifer and Gregg Pollack have turned their podcasting talents towards making screencasts. They call them envycasts. I’m a regular listener of the podcast and enjoy their lighthearted style so when Gregg was looking for reviewers of their latested episode, I jumped at the chance. I’m not going to cover all the Rails goodness present [...]

Finding style as an engineer

Jeff — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:47:18 +0000

Very interesting article over at Stephano’s blog. Worth a read, and then another. Packed with links to useful tools too.

Fixing bugs

Jeff — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:48:27 +0000

Brad at 30sleeps writes about Death by a Thousand Service Packs. Well said, Brad and let us know what your itch is.

The QA Trap

Jeff — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:07:11 +0000

Over at the Start Up Manager Brian wrote: So how can such a noble endeavor go wrong? There are lots of reasons, but the most challenging to control is the effect that occurs when the QA department sits in the shadow of Development. There is sometime a perception that the QA engineers are inferior technically to the [...]

Test your reverse migrations

Jeff — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:42:50 +0000

There’s an emphasis in the Rails community on testing as you write your code. So much so that the built in code generators will generate unit tests right alongside your models. You can even generate integration tests too. So here we are, merrily generating models, controllers and more. We’re writing code, writing tests and even running [...]