Rajesh Setty has a great list of things to do when starting a blog- would be helpful for newbies and also for oldsters to see if they have missed anything. There are quite a few items on the list that I’ve been planning to do but haven’t got around to yet (like adding the [...]
a detailed tutorial for getting Rails running on your linux box
Google has launched (or maybe relaunched) their web stat tool. It was formerly called Urchin and used to be on a subscription basis. Today it was rebranded as Google Analytics and relaunched free. It integrates with their AdWords system if you are using that, or you can just it stand alone by [...]
I’ll be doing a new presentation titled “Better Software Through Refactoring” at the upcoming Wisconsin and Madison Java Users Groups. Here’s the abstract from my NFJS page:
Refactoring is the process of improving the design of code without changing the behavior. The practice of refactoring is increasingly becoming a required skill for any professional developer, [...]
This will be my home dev environment for rails if I ever get the time to get linux up…a nice tutorial:
Ruby, Rails, Apache2, and Ubuntu Breezy (5.10)
Time to throw in the towel, 37 Signals. The future has arrived:
iClock
(via flocksucks)
I’ve had a discussion at my current client a few times where someone looks at a Junit test and says “this isn’t a unit test, whats the deal”. The answer usually is “yea, its a functional/integration/etc test - Junit is not just for unit testing”. Completely isolated, theoretically pure unit tests are great [...]
I’m liking Eric’s idea on using Ajax for monitoring user actions for automatic error logging/capturing. Basically he is turning the tables on the common misconception that ajax can be used for evil “user spying” by instead using ajax to log all the users actions throughout the page for testing. He’ll be able to [...]
Probably one of the best muppet shorts ever. Thanks to my fabulous wife for finding the link:
Mahna mahna @ Google video
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