January 2010
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autotest
I’ve just recently started using autotest again, and it’s making development so much easier, and more enjoyable. If you do any TDD (test driven development) with Ruby, you need autotest running, as it really improves the experience massively.
With autotest, and growl, you can plod away writing failing tests, implementing code so that they pass, and then rinse and repeat - all the way...
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Ruby on Rails Tutorial
Not a great start to my yearly goals - right after posting about how I want to blog every other day, I manage to go six days without a post! Time to try again, starting from today…
I was planning my next article as a follow-up to the Getting started with Rails 2.3.5 article I did in December, when I stumbled across this rather brilliant work in progress online tutorial book, Ruby on Rails...
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Looking Forward
Following up on my 2009 retrospective post, I think I’ll follow the trend and jot down a few goals and thoughts for 2010.
This coming year I want to continue to get even more productive and organised. Managing a lot of different projects presents unique challenges, and I worked hard this last year to settle on a good workflow, but I think I can probably get more organised still in terms of...
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Looking Back
I’ve been relaxing over the holidays so have only just found time to write a 2009 year end post, but thought I should definitely do it as 2009 has been very exciting!
2009 was the year that I went freelance, and started my own business, mainly focusing on Ruby on Rails work. For the most part there has been plenty of work to keep me busy, and even though it was way back in March that I quit...