I only discovered this site a couple hours ago, but it has already become my favorite api reference site: http://www.gotapi.com It uses api reference material gathered dynamically from...

Earlier this year I ventured back from a very enjoyable year building and deploying a project in Ruby on Rails into the familiar territory of Java. Ruby has become cemented as a valuable tool that wi...

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On the frontpage of That’s Progress, I have some system wide stats for what’s going on. Some of this is reasonably intensive to work out, and there’s no point doing it on every reque...

I have need to distribute applications to customers. The customers have every right to the source code, but when it is installed we do not want the code to be easily visible. We are not worried about ...

Podnotes del.icio.us Flickr Goowy chrisdo.org article: Goowy, new web 2.0 app YouOS Or download it here.

Something hit me during our iteration planning game today - the importance of Cost of Change within agile software development. Some of Extreme Programming’s principles aim to reduce the cost o...

This new Rails forum looks gorgeous and yummy to taste, why not give them more time to monetizing their lucky stuff. Seems they are offering a job to round up folks to be involved. I don’t know ...

Below are my notes from the first day of sessions here at OSCON. The talks I attended were: Using Ruby on Rails to Build a Massive Multiplayer Game Easy AI with Python Driving Rails Deep into the Ba...

I took the plunge and purchased a PDF version of Rails Recipes by Chad Fowler. I must say, I am very glad I did. The book is fantastic in both the way it is written and the snippets it provides. Infac...

i have just released my first rails plugin, Testable Logger. in a nutshell, it lets you assert that messages were (or were not) written to the application's log file during a test case. from the READ...

I’m writing this post from the comfort of my hotel room bed here at RailsConf 2006. I’ve been talking to a few folks here about the often tedious and error-prone process of configuring a S...

i've added a couple new features to the wish list management tools that make it much easier to deal with multiple wish lists. when you start adding multiple wishlists an annoying little gremlin quick...

in retrospect, i would have planned out a better sleep schedule... oh well. i had to beat a hasty retreat with an hour remaining, removing or commenting out all partially completed code. leaving me...

Well Rails Day ‘06 is finally over. I managed to get my app finished (for some definition of finished) with just a bit of time spare (although I did get some sleep as well). My app is online...

If you are using sqlite, this plugin is a nice way to speed up your tests

I got back to the ruby on rails book. I'm still at p. 163 in the testing chapter and still getting the following errors trying to run the tests: Test::Unit::AssertionFailedError: response is not a...

Although a joke, as is often the case there is a kernel of truth in this: Stephane’s thoughts corner… : Fair trade Software...

Development is going well, there were a few problems but I managed to do add a lot of stuff to the site in the last two days (and learned a lot, too). I made a basic layout for the home page and man...

The Freeborn Bikes website I’ve been working on for the past few months is now live, albeit in a ‘beta’ phase and with the e-commerce still in test mode. The site runs o...