In a nutshell, Bowline lets you build cross platform desktop applications with Ruby, HTML and JavaScript. The idea is to...
As we get ready to upgrade our servers I thought it’d be a good time to upgrade our deployment...
By far the dominant reason for not releasing sooner was a reluctance to trade the dream of success for the...
Even if you’ve trapped, you can change your programming style and reap some of the benefits of those new...
In a recent post, Stephan Schmidt makes several suggestions in order to write "Next Generation Java". Unfortunately, I disagree with...
You should endeavor to tell objects what you want them to do; do not ask them questions about their state...
The goal of modelling is to produce something substantially simpler than the world. This is achieved not through endlessly inventing...
For all of my professed admiration of Ruby on rails, I personally don't think that easier and more productive...
UML is applying an abstraction at the wrong end of the problem. It is primarily used to sketch object models...
At times when the RightThing is difficult to ascertain and a lot of time has been spent without much progress...
Rio is a facade for most of the standard ruby classes that deal with I/O; providing a simple, intuitive, succinct...
It's important, however, that his wonderful code live on, and we need your help to do so. We've...
You want to try out all of the different ruby interpreters and versions including different patchlevels, but you don't...
Celerity is a JRuby wrapper around HtmlUnit – a headless Java browser with JavaScript support. It provides a simple API for...
Recently I've been made aware of people inside US Government organizations using my Ruby on Rails Security presentation as...
The same problem happened with address, which was specified to mean only the contact information for the author of a...
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...
Pure-Ruby alternative to Cucumber.
What if my controller decides to take the Thing.create! and rescue route? What if my model has a special initializer...
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...
Passing the --profile flag to RSpec produces some additional output, namely the running times of the ten slowest examples in...