I attended the 2007 National Conference on Christian Apologetics in Charlotte, North Carolina this past weekend. One thing (among many) that I realized while participating was that I needed a copy of the Bible on my MacBook. I brought my MB for note taking since my handwriting is woefully slow, … Continue reading
Being at RubyConf this weekend has provided the necessary motivation for me to finally release a new Ruby gem I’ve been building. It’s an extraction from a project I’ve been working on for Relevance. I’m a regular user of assert_select in my functional tests. I find myself frequently doing something … Continue reading
I haven’t gotten up at 5 AM in a long time, but today I did and, after a 2.5 hour drive from Raleigh to Charlotte, am now at RubyConf. Here are some pics from the opening session:
This seems like a very good idea.
There are few things I hate worse then trying to call a business, getting put on hold, and then having to listen to ads for that business while I’m on hold. A happy customer I am not.
The Rails PDF plugin is a dandy little thing. It wraps the PDF::Writer library for Ruby, allowing PDF templates to be defined like any other Rails view (with a .rpdf extension, of course). One thing it doesn’t do is allow access to the parent controller’s helper from within a PDF … Continue reading
So you’re savvy with flexmock, a fine Rails plugin that lets you create mock objects in your tests. You’ve been coding up a boatload of fine tests that are elegant in their isolation thanks to your super mocks. They all run fine, but they’re kind of slow so you go … Continue reading
The latest and greatest version of Streamlined was released a few weeks ago. Lots of new features and bug fixes are included in this release, including a handy (and fully configurable) breadcrumb trail implemented in part by yours truly. For those who aren’t familiar with it, Streamlined is sort of … Continue reading
Watch the inimitable David Pogue for a nice demo. OLPC’s $100 laptop debuts in the U.S. during a two-week window in November. It’s a buy one, get one deal. $400 sends one laptop to a poor kid in a third world country, and one laptop to you. Am I getting … Continue reading
“The gospel is not a tranquilizer for worried weaklings to help them sleep at night. “It is not a mass of dead dogmas, deep frozen in some ancient cathedral to be carried as a burden through life and thawed out five minutes before death. “The gospel is not a list … Continue reading