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The Third Order of Order
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Testing Velocity Part 2 - Why do we test?
A couple weeks ago, I began a series on keeping your test suite fast and effective. I now am going
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Testing Velocity Part 2 - Why do we test?
A couple weeks ago, I began a series on keeping your test suite fast and effective. I now am going to digress a bit, take a step back and view the big picture to establish context. Before addressing test performance and what makes up a good test, we
CapGun Released! Super simple Capistrano deployment notifications
Tell everyone about your releases! Send email notification after Capistrano deployments! Rule the world! Drop your ActionMailer configuration information into your deploy.rb file, configure recipients for the deployment notifications, and setup the
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rsanheim@ares:~$ history 1000 | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head 71 gst 67 l 38 **** 38 c 28 git 22 ss 21 gca 13 gsd 13 : 12 rake I like keeping it short. The 3rd one thats bleeped out is a shortcut
If you think Huddle is ripping off Campfire
…then you haven’t seen mIRC, an irc client app that has been around for years: See anything familiar in the screen shot above? Tabs on the top, list of participants in the right hand pane, and chat in the main window. Change the font to
Zero to a Fully Git Enabled Rails App in the time it takes to drink an espresso
updated: now uses the real Rails git master at github, now that its live. So you want to set up a fresh Rails app in a fresh git repo, with proper ignores setup, with vendor/rails using a git submodule (which enables switching to any Rails branch or
log_buddy 0.0.2 released
Description log_buddy is your friendly little log buddy at your side, helping you dev, debug, and test. Synopsis Call LogBuddy.init to use log_buddy. It will add two methods to object instance and class level: “d” and “logger”
Rails is moving to Git (and Lighthouse)
The Rails core team is making a big move to Git (and Github) for source control and Lighthouse for issue tracking. I love the move to github - it will make managing patches and your small tweaks to Rails much easier to keep in sync with your chosen
How to move your domains off GoDaddy
Its common internet knowledge that GoDaddy is one of the worst, most unfriendly registrars out there. Go to NoDaddy for all sorts of nasty things that GoDaddy that make them completely disreputable, or google “godaddy sucks” for a thousa
log_buddy Released - your helpful little dev buddy
LogBuddy is your friendly little log buddy at your side, helping you dev, debug, and test. It plays well with Rails and plain old Ruby projects. To use it, sudo gem install log_buddy, then require 'log_buddy' and call LogBuddy.init. It will add tw
Testing Velocity - Keeping your test suite fast, Part 1
If you are a Ruby or Rails developer, and you know what you are doing, you are writing tests or specs. Tests express the intent of your code, help verify correctness, and aid in design and exploration. Rails gives you helpful conventions to follow
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Oracle Goes After Salesforce
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Doesn't Oracle Have Its Own Virtualization Scheme?
Oracle News Desk wrote: Doesn't Oracle have its own virtualization scheme? Isn't it Xen? Well, Oracle's soon-to-be takeover, BEA - the feds just okayed the merger - said Wednesday that it had teamed with VMware to deliver Java virtualization to the enterprise.
Saleforce.com for Sale to Oracle at $75 a Share!
Adam wrote: Maureen, You're a week late on the story and your title is misleading. This is a rumor that was started last weekend, possibly to drive up Salesforce.com stock. The rumor was never confirmed and Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) did increase in value somewhere in the ran...
Oracle BEA - TIBCO Next?
TIBCO News Desk wrote: With BEA gone to Oracle, the speculators have turned to TIBCO Software, figuring the smaller middleware company is likely to be swallowed by some bigger fish. Its stock shot up better than 11% on the news that Oracle was buying BEA. Its market cap is $1.4 billion.
Sun Buys MySQL, Gets Oracle for an Enemy
Sun News Desk wrote: Sun, Oracle's sometimes best friend, turned into an Oracle competitor this morning when it said it was buying MySQL, the open source database that's part of the famous LAMP stack.
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