A key to Test Driven Development is frequently run tests. These tests are used to judge the health of a project. Like in a hospital, when things deteriorate we have to be alerted right away. Ruby developers use autotest to monitor and run their test suite in the background. One problem with autotest is that …
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Interesting Links #3
I upgraded a few Rails applications to 2.0 and found the following links helpful. In under an hour I was able to upgrade 2 applications from Rails 1.2 to 2.0. Rails 2.0: taking the plunge Pastie script to test for 2.0 Compatibility Upgrade to Rails 2.0 Upgrading to Rails 2.0. A Recipe
Progress Review – January 2008
January has gone, marking my 7th month of running my freelance software business. It’s now time to take some time to review how I did with my goals and to set some new ones for February. January Goals and Actions After several months of “head-down” work, I took January off to scale up my marketing …
Personality Quirks – the Other Subatomic Particles
I’ve been tagged by Shane, he’s looking for 7 of my personality quirks. Here’s what I could come up with, when my wife gets home she’ll get out her list. I think she just upgraded to a three ring binder. 1. I have to have something in my hands at all times Doesn’t matter what …
Redmine Project Scores Plugin
In a previous post, I setup custom data with Redmine to track specific criteria with my development projects. Since then I have written a plugin to make tracking scores easier. Like my other plugin, I’m releasing this under the GNU GPL v2. Alpha Release Unlike my other plugin, this one will be undergoing some major …