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I brought up the question whether tests should call the translation API when checking for the presence of a string...
Amidst my 400 unread Boing Boing links are probably ten or fifteen that are probably real gems. But I’ll...
Write declarative tests using nested contexts without performance penalties. Contest is less than 100 lines of code and gets the...
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I've recently moved from using Parallels for browser testing to Sun's Open Source VirtualBox. Here's a walkthrough...
On any page accessed with SSL, all Ajax requests must use SSL, or they will fail. To make this happen...
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Background allows you to add some context to the scenarios in a single feature. A Background is much like a...
All methods generated by string_attr_reader are now added to that new module instead of the class. The result...
The idea behind scrooge is both surprisingly simple and powerful: instead of forcing the developer to manually specify each attribute...
decided to go fixtureless with Shoulda + Factory Girl. All good, except one problem. Slow as fuck tests. So here’s...
Google Chrome Frame is a plugin for Internet Explorer that embeds the entire Chrome web rendering engine inside IE.
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R. Clayton Miller's 10/GUI is probably one of the most dramatic reimaginations of the desktop user interface I’ve...
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In this paper, we address the problem of
Even though the gradual engagement meme has been around for a while, and everyone just hates signup forms, they just...
But Twitter is not playing at the $1.00 blackjack table. They’re playing at the $1B blackjack table. Forget for...
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Good programmers know that a lack of superficial code quality and consistency is the best indicator of deeper systemic problems...