As a Christian who is socially conservative, fiscally libertarian, and non-interventionist, I’m having a very difficult time imagining myself actually voting for any of the current Republican Presidential candidates. I’m just hearing the same old thing from all of them. All except one, who happens to be the only guy … Continue reading
The Rails Rumble took place this past weekend, and together with fellow raleigh.rb‘ers Mark Bennett and Nathaniel Talbott we formed a team. 48 hours, one go-cart race, and several Wii games later we finished our creation and dubbed it Link Tipping. Link Tipping is very similar to digg, except instead … Continue reading
Raleigh, the city that I live in, recently implemented stage one water restrictions. This means I can water with a sprinkler once a week, and by hand with a hose twice a week. This simplifies my life. Whereas I once had to be concerned about watering every other day, now … Continue reading
These are the slides from the presentation I gave at the Agile RTP user group on August 7th. It was a great experience and I appreciate everyone showing up. The talk generated some good discussion. I was hoping to post these sooner. Sorry for the delay. I look forward to … Continue reading
Here’s your friendly reminder that the next raleigh.rb meetup is TONIGHT! Brenton Leanhardt will be introducing us to the wonders of testing our Ruby apps with Selenium. Get yourself a full description of the talk and directions to Red Hat on the Meetup page. I think it’s safe to say … Continue reading
Remember, this month’s Agile RTP meetup is tonight at 6 PM. I’ll be presenting my Chaotic Agility talk at Misys in North Raleigh. This is a new meeting location (we’re not meeting at Frankie’s anymore) so take note! Here are the directions from the mailing list: The address of the … Continue reading
I’ll be speaking about chaotic agility at the Agile RTP meetup in August. Chaotic agility is a phrase describing why I believe agility works: the science behind it models an amazingly accurate picture of a typical development project. Most of us will agree that agile teams produce better software on … Continue reading
Registration for this year’s BarCampRDU is now open. This is an event I unfortunately had to miss last year due to a prior commitment. I’m really looking forward to attending this year. It’s shaping up to be a fantastic experience.
Early on in my exploration of Rails, I got into the habit of testing that the response code of an action indicated a redirect. It turns out that this check is entirely unnecessary since assert_redirected_to makes an identical check: def assert_redirected_to(options = {}, message=nil) clean_backtrace do assert_response(:redirect, message) … end … Continue reading
Capistrano is a wonderful tool. I have this really old PHP-based web site, TolkienMovies.com, that I needed to make a change to earlier today. (The spam bots had finally found my news submission form.) I decided this was as good a time as any to automate deployment of the app. … Continue reading