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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 [...]

Excellent paper on HTTP Sessions

Jeff — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:32:30 +0000

Just finished reading a whitepaper on Web Based Session Management, worth a read. It lists the advantages and disadvantages of the three main forms of session management and common attacks. Go forth and read!

Joel On Software: Mostly right, yet so wrong

Jeff — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:19:17 +0000

Joel Spolsky, of Joel On Software fame, recently wrote about web standards. Now, I’m a regular reader of Joel’s blog and usually find some nuggets of wisdom there, especially when it comes to running a business. However, on the subject of doctype and standardistas, he’s dead wrong. DOCTYPE is a myth. A mortal web designer who attaches [...]

VisEmacs.NET pretest

Jeff — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:25:50 +0000

It’s been a long time since I’ve worked on VisEmacs.net for varied reasons, the biggest being that I’m still stuck using Visual Studio 6.0. I’ve watched VS2002, then 2003, ‘05 and now ‘08 get released and I had no itch to scratch. But you’ve had one. And it’s time that itch was scratched! Without much further ado, [...]

Stretchy Designs

Jeff — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:17:55 +0000

If you’re afraid of using em-based layouts, or just haven’t got around to using them in your designs, head on over to Jon Tan’s blog and read his great article, The Incredible Em & Elastic Layouts with CSS . He does a great job of demonstrating how easy it is to create an elastic layout [...]

Is Google Evil? Here’s Proof!

Jeff — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:59:48 +0000

Many people wonder if Google is evil, despite their motto. But I have discovered proof that Google is Evil. See for yourself!