Title provided by cuningjames from programming.reddit.com comments on Martin Fowler’s GroovyOrJRuby article
Eh. Sun’s chosen JRuby, funds its development, and publishes relevant development tools; JRuby is much faster than Groovy and stands to become more so; JRuby has rails; JRuby is roughly equivalent to a rather popular language designed by someone not hamstrung by [...]
It seems that I can’t enjoy the Google Maps Mobile 2.0 my location feature. Bummer.
** Update 2008-01-31: [Google Maps My Location supported on Samsung Blackjack SGH-i607](
Solution attempt #1
Try to switch from 3G to Edge while running google maps This didn’t work for me, does it work for you? If so, what version of [...]
2008 will probably be the year of JRuby. JRuby solves the two biggest pain points I hear from developers about Ruby.
People think Ruby is slow, so I can’t try it out. I don’t know how we would deploy it, what is all this Apache/Mongrel/Rewrite stuff? Can’t I just deploy on our app server?
Headius by [...]
We’re close to a day when we’ll have the Minority Report interface for managing our branches and merging.
We’ve gone from the wonderful 2D and whiteboard drawings/DOT graphs to some interesting 3D visualizations coupled with alternative interfaces:
Not that I think most people need 3D to get meaningful work accomplished, but I think [...]
People keep asking me how to start writing Selenium tests. I’m going to give all my secrets away in this easy 3 step plan.
Begin by recording your high level test with Selenium IDE, convert the result into the language of your choice and put the code in a unit test. Walk through the generated code [...]