QCon 2008 : Domain Specific Languages
Today I spent my first day at QCon 2008 in a room with Martin Fowler, Neal Ford and Rebecca Parsons presenting their position on Domain Specific Languages, the results I’m sure will end up in a book.
For me, having sat through the tutorial, the headline moments for me were:
Understanding what the differences are between an [...]
When do you code review?
I stumbled across this article in my google reader on code reviews that I found quite interesting. All too often code reviews just don’t happen software projects. Whether they are forgotten about, or there is no company procedure for doing them, or no time is set aside to perform them, if no-one makes [...]
Heroku!
I’ve found Heroku!
Heroku allows me to build and deploy Rails applications. It couldn’t have happened at a better time for me because my current provider doesn’t give me what I need re. Ruby and Rails. So I took the following steps:
1) Registered with Heroku
2) When I got my sign-up email, I [...]
CSS : Not for Dummies
As one of my little hobbies, I’m porting my flat php based web-site to rails. In doing so, I realised that I don’t know enough about CSS and I’m sick of fumbling my way through it and it work by accident. So I asked some of the Web Devs at Cognifide to [...]
Can you recommend a Hosting Provider?
I need a bit of help here. Are you happy with your current hosting provider? Do they give you want you need? I’m looking for a cost-effective, reliable, hosting provider with good support for linux and gives you an environment that enables you to develop with pleasure. Usual things ssh, ftp, [...]
Migrating from Serendipity to Wordpress
This blog is really a note to myself and anyone else interested in doing the same thing. Basically, I wanted to move off my old blog based on Serendipity 1.1 and onto the latest version of Wordpress (2.3.2 as of yesterday evening!). After picking my way through doom and gloom posts, it’s impossible, [...]
RSpec: automated testing and then manual testing. It works!
I think I have caught the Ruby bug (always last to the party cleve, always the last to arrive!) in a big way. In between my day job, I have been reading (Programming Ruby, Agile Web Development with Rails, Everyday Scripting with Ruby) and writing (currently re-writing clevegibbon.com) Ruby. However, today I was [...]
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