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Wednesday, December 4, 2013

The Virtual Clock Test Pattern

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You can have a hard time unit-testing code that depends on the system clock. This article describes both the problem and a common, repeatabl...
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Sunday, December 16, 2012

Sssmoke - When even Sinatra is too much

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Sometimes you don't need a web framework, no matter how light - you just want to slap a Ruby script or two on a web server. Enter Sssmok...
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Saturday, August 11, 2012

What Good Error Messages Look Like

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Good error messages do three things: They tell me what's wrong and how to fix it. They stand out. They soothe my soul. A teammate...
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Windows 8: solving the wrong problem

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In the 80s and the 90s, we had a Holy Grail: cross-platform compatibility. We wanted to write our software once, and then run it on differen...
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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Get Your Ruby Project on Travis and Have a Martini in 15 Minutes

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Almost overnight, every Ruby project out there seem to be moving to Travis . Travis is a dead-simple, community-owned build system . I...
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