Archive for the ‘technical’ Category
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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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
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Saturday, September 1st, 2007
When you're building your super cool web app, try not to make it rely too much on screenscraping sites over which you have no control.
Sigh.
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Lots of people, especially lately, have been talking about testing - there are three full sessions at the Lone Star Ruby Conference on testing alone - so it's pretty easy to find people talking about how to test. In this post, I just want to call your attention to two ...
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Monday, July 25th, 2005
Joel Spolsky's latest is a defense of the (sometimes unpopular) notion that the best programmers are really, truly better than average or below-average programmers. It's a nice read if you've got the time or inclination to take a look.
Interestingly, the last bit about remarkable software is extremely similar to things ...
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