Musings

Yesterday was one of these days where nothing seemed to happen. Actually a lot happened. I visited my friend Florian in hospital. After a brief stint in a recovery clinic he’s now back in hospital where he’s head was drained of excessive water. He slept while I was there, and I don’t think he realised that I was in the room, even though he briefly looked at me. Humans are so fragile. ...

I’m sitting and watching an amazing screencast that shows, how Ruby Quiz 84 (computing and printing Pascals Triangle) is solved, using a test driven development approach. Not only is it a good show of how TDD works, but it also shows the power of TextMate (THE editor on Mac OS X) but also the beauty of Ruby code. It’s long (about an hour), but worth watching! Technorati Tags: textmate, ruby, testing

Am 3.11 findet in Frankfurt die rails-konferenz.de statt. Ich werde dort sein und einen Vortrag uber “Extreme Testing - oder wie ich lernte aufzuhoren mich zu sorgen und Änderungen zu lieben” halten in dem ich aufzeige, dass automatisches Testen weit mehr ist, als nur ab und zu ein die UnitTests ablaufen zu lassen. Ich wurde mich freuen, einige von euch dort zu sehen. Technorati Tags: conference, rails-konferenz.de, rails

Maybe I’m going to go to the german Rails conference in Frankfurt in the beginning of November. I just looked at the prices for the flight from Zurich to Frankfurt and saw theses quotes for the return flight: The world is coming to an end… Technorati Tags: conference, flying, rails, swiss

Sounds to good to be true - well it is in a way. But it ain’t that bad… Prompted by Magnatune - freie Online Musik by Martin Roll I (re)discovered Magnatune, a online music store that sells music with a creative commons license. I promptly bought the album Big Dipper that Martin recommended. If you like a copy of it, leave a comment here - the first two commenters will received the code to download the album (as per their generous license agreement). ...

I have started a new Rails project for a colleague of mine. Time to live on the (rails)edge again for this project. As usual, it’s fun to get into the freshly developed mode again, after having finished two large Rails projects. The feeling of building something out of nothing is great. And of course I’m taking the opportunity to update my Rails Reference to Rails 1.2 Is there anything in particular you’d like to see covered in the next release of the reference? Let me know! ...