Evaluating this framework brings back memories… the year was 2005, I had been working for a small IT firm as one of the first developers hired, which as of 2005 included three developers. I had zero process in place and had never had any experience elsewhere as this was my first job. Somehow, from reading [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Join Me at the Strange Loop Conference in October!
June 22nd, 2009
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A few of my developer friends from St.Louis are organizing a local conference, The Strange Loop, being held at the Tivoli Theatre on October 23rd. What is Strange Loop you ask? I don’t really know either, so from the site: Strange Loop is a unique St. Louis developer conference open to all developers, languages, and [...]
Velocity != Productivity
June 22nd, 2009
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I really don’t know why I always have to repeat this time and time again, over and over. It feels like every time I turn around there’s always someone who thinks/acts like velocity is a productivity metric. Enough Already! It’s not! All that it really is is a number that identifies the capacity a team [...]
Infinitest: ZenTest for Java?
June 19th, 2009
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Just came across Infinitest during my nightly blog reading… haven’t gotten a chance to look at it, but at first glance it looks like what I’ve come to love in the autospec feature of ZenTest (and the feature that made me the most interested in jspec). The idea of junit tests auto-running on change versus [...]
Javascript Test Driven Development With YUI Test
June 18th, 2009
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Tonight I’ve decided to bounce back and try out another testing framework that’s been on my list for awhile, YUI Test. From the site: YUI Test is a testing framework for browser-based JavaScript solutions. Using YUI Test, you can easily add unit testing to your JavaScript solutions. While not a direct port from any specific [...]
Mortgage Calculator Contest: Win Up To $10,000
June 16th, 2009
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I got an email today from a Brandon Laughridge of MortgageLoanPlace about a programming contest their currently running, “Super Sexy” Mortgage Calculator Contest. I’ll let Brandon fill in the rest of the details: It’s a legit competition with $10k going to the winner, $500 new egg gift cards going to the 2nd and 3rd place [...]
More Test Driven Development With Javascript: JsTestDriver
June 16th, 2009
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Just got back from the gym and it’s time for yet another evening of experimenting with test driven development in javascript. I’ve been hearing a lot about JsTestDriver lately, so tonight I’m going to see what all the fuss is about.
links for 2009-06-16
June 16th, 2009
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Google Open Source Blog: Web Storage Portability Layer: A Common API … Robert Kroeger has released a nice library for local database access. The Web Storage Portability Layer nicely abstracts on top of HTML5 and Gears for database access. (tags: javascript storage wspl) Doodle.js — A Sprite Library for Canvas | notebook (tags: javascript jquery [...]
Aftermath
June 16th, 2009
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So yesterday I came home from work… to this. In the end, I’m going to need to replace the carpet (since it’s all attatched, we’re looking at replacing the living room, foyer, and hallway) and two bedroom doors from where they scratched on the doors. Don’t know what happened… guess they got spooked out by [...]
N.A.S.A – “Gifted”
June 15th, 2009
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Came across this video recently… like the last one, I like it.
