Robert Dempsey talks with Richard Sheridan, the CEO of Menlo Innovations, about his experience developing Agile teams, and building Menlo Innovations from the ground up to be an Agile organization. If...

Testing your tests is kind of crazy. However when writing a library of Cucumber step definitions which will be used in many projects it started to make sense to test my tests. The step definitions ar...

A screenshot taken during the taping of The Conversation earlier today.

mnmal: designeriphone: “Good design means never having to say “Click Here”.

Recently, my twitter friend Kimberly, writer of EastCoastByChoice, contributor to Undeathmatch, and all around interesting person was soliciting guest posts for EastCoastByChoice. Given that people of...

On the eve of the first free, online “Clojure 101” course, Michael Kohl of RubyLearning caught up with Michael Fogus, author of the forthcoming book – The Joy of Clojure. In this interview, Mich...

The Cucumber behavior-driven development framework is appreciated by developers from many languages. It makes it easy to write plain-text stories that run executable Ruby code against your applic...

The Cucumber behavior-driven development framework is appreciated by developers from many languages. It makes it easy to write plain-text stories that run executable Ruby code against your applic...

This weekend I spent some time playing around with the Google Chrome Extensions API (aka plugin API). I've been kicking some ideas around for a browser plugin, and I thought I would take a look to see...

Trying to install PostGIS and you can’t get past this error? psqlostgis.sql:57: NOTICE:  type “spheroid” is not yet defined DETAIL:  Creating a shell type definition. psqlostgis.sql:57: ERROR:...

Ruby User Groups (RUGs, for short) are typically informal organizations put together to encourage Ruby developers with certain areas to get together, share ideas, and, often, to have some fun. If you'...

I had an issue recently whereby Ack in my Textmate install would just hang with a spinner, yet still work just fine from the command line. After some digging it transpires that this is related to me i...

Pro Git - Smart HTTP Transport

LightMongo is a lightweight Mongo object persistence layer for Ruby which makes use of Mongo's features rather than trying to emulate ActiveRecord. It's an interesting alternative to the already popul...

Here's a cheeky gotcha to keep an eye out for when using the popular pagination plugin/gem for Ruby on Rails will_paginate I was doing something like... Foo.find(:all, :order => "bar DESC").pagin...

Ewgeco E200(Disclaimer: I’m biased; Rubaidh built the My Ewgeco web app, and that’s how I got my hands on a test unit in the first place.) We’ve had a test Ewgeco unit kicking around the office ...

It is easy to be vulnerable to cross site scripting attacks in earlier versions of Rails, but Rails 3 solves this by automatically escaping unsafe input.

great article on massive cloud-based load testing http://bit.ly/9FcTa4 #soasta #cloud # Powered by Twitter Tools