Archive for November, 2007
Sunday, November 11th, 2007
This is a brief extract from the talk I gave at Rubyconf - I wanted to call it out specifically, because it generated some good discussion in Charlotte, and I think it's an interesting topic.
RSpec is (in part) motivated by linguistic theory; in particular, the idea that language influences the ...
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
I was talking with a coworker while at Rubyconf this past weekend, and I was finally able to articulate why I'm not terribly fond of make_resourceful, resources_controller, and all those other plugins meant to DRY your RESTful controllers (as well as the should_be_restful macro in the shoulda plugin). This was ...
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
My big talk was yesterday - last session of a three-day conference, so I was pleasantly surprised to see alert and interested faces in the audience. The session went well, and sparked some good questions and comments, so I'm calling it a success.
For anyone who wasn't able to attend, you ...
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Sunday, November 4th, 2007
The Railsconf 2008 CFP is open. The conference runs from May 29 to June 1, but proposals are due Dec 13 - so if you've got some hot topic burning a hole in your pocket, get it in!
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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
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