We had a conversation about the fact that the 'TDD is about testing vs TDD is about design" debate that...
In a nutshell, Bowline lets you build cross platform desktop applications with Ruby, HTML and JavaScript. The idea is to...
By far the dominant reason for not releasing sooner was a reluctance to trade the dream of success for the...
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...
Rio is a facade for most of the standard ruby classes that deal with I/O; providing a simple, intuitive, succinct...
Celerity is a JRuby wrapper around HtmlUnit – a headless Java browser with JavaScript support. It provides a simple API for...
The same problem happened with address, which was specified to mean only the contact information for the author of a...
I've recently moved from using Parallels for browser testing to Sun's Open Source VirtualBox. Here's a walkthrough...
The idea behind scrooge is both surprisingly simple and powerful: instead of forcing the developer to manually specify each attribute...
Concerns is a simple Rails plugin that provides you with a simple way to organise your Controllers, Models and Mailers...
If I ruled the world, IE would not be used by people. Since that is not the case, we need...
R. Clayton Miller's 10/GUI is probably one of the most dramatic reimaginations of the desktop user interface I’ve...
But Twitter is not playing at the $1.00 blackjack table. They’re playing at the $1B blackjack table. Forget for...
Riot differs primarily in that it does not rerun setup for each test in a context.
cxpartners has an interesting eye tracking study on form design. They distill the results into a few simple guidelines which...
I cringe every time I hear about someone who has spent years writing their ‘killer app’, but still hasn’t...
Mockito is a mocking framework that tastes really good. It lets you write beautiful tests with clean & simple API. Mockito...
The minimum bar for a reliable service is not that you have done a backup, but that you have done...
For a long time on the web, we’ve been typographically spoilt. Yes, you heard me correctly. Think about it...
Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.