Archive for July, 2006

Joel, I want a pony; Thanks!

[Developers] also want M&Ms for breakfast and a pony. Joel On Software: Private Offices Redux

I don’t often agree with Joel’s theories of software development management but things are changing… Joel, give me M&M’s for breakfast and a pony and I’m yours.

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Project Layout: What’s in a name?

We’re laying out a project now and trying to choose container name for the “that part of the project that where the developers live” as opposed to the “place where the testers test stuff lives”. Using “core” seems so bland… but so far I can’t seem to convince anyone to name it “bedrock”, “presupposition” […]

AJAX Test Driven Development with Selenium

Selenium, it’s all the rage right now because it makes cross browser web application testing simple and easy. What you probably didn’t think it did was make AJAX Test Driven Development Possible, but it does:

Based on selenium, jsunit, we actually can develop javascript application in a TDD way. […]

Is Fitnesse ready for the Enterprise? It’s getting there.

I found Is Fitnesse Ready for Enterprise? by Naresh Jian today and was impressed to see that he’s rounded up answers for the most common complaints from those new to Fitnesse. I’m going to throw my feedback into this loop and hope to see the community respond. So what is Fitnesse missing? […]

Fitnesse, FitLibrary DoFixtures and Selenium: A winning combination.

Jeremy D. Miller wrote two excellent posts that take you step-by-step through the creation of an acceptance test suite using Fitnesse, Selenium and Fitlibrary.

Create a Testing DSL with FitNesse and Selenium (Part 1) Create a Testing DSL with FitNesse and Selenium (Part 2)

In the two posts you’ll see how these pieces were combined to test. […]

The History of Sauces

The word “sauce” is a French word that means a relish to make our food more appetizing. Sauces are liquid or semi-liquid foods devised to make other foods look, smell, and taste better, and hence be more easily digested and more beneficial. Because of the lack of refrigeration in the early days of […]

MSN Messenger loves RAM

Click on that picture… think there might be a memory leak somewhere?

Buildix - The Agile Development Platform on a disk

Buildix is an agile development platform on a disk. Those folks at ThoughtWorks decided that creating a Knoppix based distribution that is a “load and run” development server was a great idea; and I agree. Chris Read, a ThoughtWorker known for his Build Master tendencies, describes Buildix as:

The whole point of […]

YouTube makes me smile: David “The Hoff” Hasselhoff - Jump In My Car

I don’t know why these girls just don’t just jump in the car. First, I that car talks. Second, look at that leather jacket. Third, it has that sweet red LED thing on the front that goes back an forth.

If you don’t hear from me, it’s because of SecondLife

I’m seriously thinking about starting up with SecondLife. Articles about schools of fish inspire me to dabble in a medium that could be my new crystal meth. I’ve avoided playing video games or anything related to them for nearly a year now because my Halo 2 addiction got a bit out of hand, […]