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One of the assignments I have to write for the Masters Programme I’m working on now, had me thinking about re-mixing. I had written about the presentation by Cornelia Sollfrank at Tweakfest a couple of years ago on this blog. It prompted me to use the net.art generator to create the following image: [caption id=“attachment_750” align=“alignright” width=“480” caption=“The net.art generator asked to generate an image for "citation", "academia" and "cultural"”][/caption] ...

The project we are working on for a job-search box in Switzerland ("stellenanzeiger.ch") has started nicely and we have already reached the “visitors per month” goal, our client had for the end of the year. We are constantly applying small fixes, reading more jobs (that would be a blog post all by itself), recognizing duplicates, handling very very weird internet sites etc. As a “fun” project, Keith wrote an iPhone web interface for the site: ...

Last week I finally got a chance to use the new nested routes in a small rails app, managing invoices for one of our clients. Each invoice belonged to a school and both schools and invoices had an address. It seemed (and was!) the perfect oppurtunity for nesting some forms. I whipped up a sample for the schools and wow! It worked. Automagically. Perfect. So onto the invoices. Now, logically, the invoices belong to a school, so using another bit of Rails magic I had nested the routes. This was great, as it gave me access to the school and kept everything neat and clean. But… the nested forms within the nested routes (lots of nesting going on around here, I know, but bear with me) exploded. They just refused to work. ...

We just moved this blog to our own servers and updated to Wordpress 2.7 in the process. While it seems that everything went smoothly, there sure are bound to be problems… I think that the Umlauts got messed during the move - but I’m not going to chase UTF-8 conversions…. Any other problems, missing stuff - let us know!

The BDD Workshop I held at RailsWayCon in Berlin went quite well. I bombarded the 30 or so people with a lot of new and unfamiliar technology - not all of which is RSpec or Cucumber related. Using a Twitter App as an example, we cucumbered, speced, stubbed and mocked around for a whole day and in the end, we had a simple but working Twitter application running. On the side, we talked about the Pomodori method, HAML, used the great RubyMine IDE (I might end up using it for all my Rails development). There were a lot of things I couldn’t get into, maybe next time. ...

Only a few more days, and the Rails World will converge on Berlin for RailsWayCon, an alternative conference to the cancelled RailsConf Europe. I will be teaching a workshop on BDD on monday, 25.5 - including working with Cucumber. See the complete Schedule. I’m looking forward to seeing a lot of good presentations and meeting old and new friends. The lineup of speakers is impressive: Ola Bini, Steven Bristol, Neal Ford, Michael (Koz) Koziarski, Yehuda Katz, Jan Krutisch, Mathias Meyer, Maik Schmidt, Stefan Tilkov, Jonathan Weiss, Heiko Webers and others. ...