May 2008
Clues For Reading New Code →
(posted by cardioid)
The Magic Funnel →
and follow up with the “building a magic funnel” posts (posted by cardioid)
RDoc Documentation →
(mogilefs for ruby) (posted by rickbradley)
InfoQ: Coplien and Martin Debate TDD, CDD and... →
(posted by rickbradley)
“So I’m not completely hostile to TDD. I think it’s great for junior...”
– Cedric Beust again. I really should just quote the whole interview. Heh.
“Another thing that I found a bit annoying was that basically when you’re...”
– Cedric again — make it stop!
“Macro-design is more when you start thinking: ‘I’m going to need...”
– Cedric Beust, getting his douche on in public (posted by rickbradley)
InfoQ: Cédric Beust discusses Designing for... →
Cedric Beust continues to confirm his douchery by (a) continuing to use Java, and (b) joining the “TDD gets in the way of { making beautiful APIs, exercising my master plan, etc. }” camp (posted by rickbradley)
April 2008
Git Guide - SourceMage Wiki →
(posted by cardioid)
Using git submodules to track plugins | Notes from... →
(via lak) (posted by rickbradley)
InfoQ: MagLev: Gemstone builds Ruby runtime based... →
(posted by wilkes)
they just don't write 'em like they used to
ali's mom: "there's that whole box of thomas hardy boys mysteries up there."
ali: "like my favorite, the hardy boys and the return of the native caper."
“Speaking of, I have to go tend to the ferrets.”
– cardiod, apropos of nothing (posted by vinbarnes)
Anarchogeek: Two conversations about tests and... →
(posted by cardioid)
“Let me get this straight, you bought an amish computer desk?”
– rabble to Jamis (posted by vinbarnes)
Dawg Sports :: An Unofficial Georgia Bulldogs Blog →
(posted by arafatm)
A different perspective..... | MYCRAZIES →
(posted by vinbarnes)
I'm Going To Scale My Foot Up Your Ass - Ted... →
(posted by cardioid)
“I don’t *really* like any code other than something I wrote in the last 10...”
– timocratic (posted by cardioid)
Giles Bowkett: My Approach To Giving Presentations →
(posted by cardioid)
rubyphunk - Hello world: Introducing RSpactor →
(posted by vinbarnes)
MagLev - Ruby that scales →
(posted by wilkes)
“avatars of teenage nihilism”
– description of Beavis and Butt-head in “Florestan and Butt-head: A Glimpse into Postmodern Music Criticism” (posted by vinbarnes)
Amazon.com: Lessons Learned in Software Testing:... →
(posted by wilkes)
Advantages of the "As a user, I want" user story... →
(posted by arafatm)
MySpace.com - POINT BREAK LIVE!! - 33 - Male -... →
(posted by wilkes)
Jake Scruggs: Dead Simple Rails Metrics with... →
(posted by vinbarnes)
REGIONAL» Blog Archive » Self-portraiture and... →
(posted by ali)
Class:... →
very little documentation here, but basically Merb has an rspec matcher that uses Hpricot’s one-liner CSS selectors (basically the same as from JQuery) instead of painful nested have_tag() matchers. Shame it’s not standard in rspec proper. (posted by rickbradley)
Slashdot | Donald Knuth Rips On Unit Tests and... →
(posted by arafatm)
sweeper :: snax →
booyaa. I’ve been procrastinating doing this myself — procrastination sometimes pays ;-) (posted by rickbradley)
"the greatest misallocation of resources the world... →
(posted by wilkes)
“You should take a break or go home if you think homicidal thoughts for more than...”
– Robert L. Read, How to be a Programmer (posted by cardioid)
“I’m fairly sure UML is at least as good for you as studying Latin.”
– Robert L. Read, How to be a Programmer (posted by cardioid)
“I get people who come up to the podium after a speaking engagement to tell me...”
– James Kunstler (posted by drewr)
“every song is a comeback. every moment’s a little bit later.”
– wilco (posted by rickbradley)
Hey Rails, nice Rack! →
(posted by vinbarnes)
SwitchPipe - Process Manager and Proxy for Rapid... →
(posted by vinbarnes)
Software as a Service Rails Kit | Rails Kits →
(posted by vinbarnes)
Shopify's active_shipping at master — GitHub →
(posted by vinbarnes)
Home — gitnub — GitHub →
(posted by vinbarnes)
GitHub RubyGems →
seems very cool and interesting, but potentially full of headaches, especially as chat on #github right now shows (posted by cardioid)