Month: July 2008
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Did I just cross Rubicon?
First time I did write test first, then code for that. Revision 543, Run-N-Share. Usually I wrote tests after I have working piece of code, as a mean to provide some sanity check when making further changes. Does it mean I just crossed TDD border? :)))
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Ups and downs with samba
Using Windows as development environment for Ruby applications is not very good idea. So I have moved to setup with FreeBSD on VMWare and access via samba to files. Far away from perfect but better than before. When I have changed VMWare player to VMWare server I made decision to create new virtual machine, since…
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Web application that has changed my life
Soon it will be two years since I was exposed to web application, which had probably most impact on me since AJAX was born. I have checked old time entries and it was August 2006 when I found SlimTimer. You ask – time tracking application had most impact on my life? Yes, exactly. (c) Brenda…
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When timeout hit You with Amazon SQS on FreeBSD/VMWare
I become fan of Amazon’s SQS and ActiveMessaging plugin recently. Great technology, make separating user interface and time consuming operations super easy. I will write about my experiences more, but now simple tip if You are running development environment on FreeBSD inside VMWare. Often when doing publish to some queue I got timeout, which results…
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Rails filters
For those who have missed it, since Rails 2.0 just returning false does not break filter chain (read – action gets executed). Filter chain is broken only when filter render something or redirects. Just short reminder :)