Category Archives: programming

Assert Property Equality

Posted on October 23, 2007 by Daniel Roop

When you start doing more thorough testing of your code you will quickly find that the existing JUnit functionatly is not always robust enough to relieve some of the tedium in testing. Let’s take for instance a simple equals method … Continue reading →

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2PP Episode 4: Bungies the Chick

Posted on October 12, 2007 by Daniel Roop

The last couple weeks have been pretty busy for me. Between giving presentations, at work and at usergroups, and working on the 2nd Player Podcast. Well next week should slow down considerably and I hope to put out a few … Continue reading →

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ROOP (programming language)

Posted on October 3, 2007 by Daniel Roop

After claiming the #1 search rank in Google for daniel roop, I decided to set my eyes on a higher prize. Some people suggested I should try to claim daniel, now aside from this being a biblical character reference, it … Continue reading →

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Actionscript 3.0 Object Equality

Posted on September 2, 2007 by Daniel Roop

This weekend I began tinkering around with FlexUnit 2.0 for Actionscript 3.0. So far I am excited about the framework. It doesn’t do much, but it does the basics. When writing some of my tests I found I needed to … Continue reading →

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Model Glue Flex

Posted on July 4, 2007 by Daniel Roop

So I finally got a chance to play around with the alpha of Model-Glue Flex and I must say I am rather impressed. I never got a chance to use the ColdFusion version of the framwork, but Model-Glue Flex is … Continue reading →

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Syntax Sugar

Posted on June 22, 2007 by Daniel Roop

I have been doing a lot of reading lately about MDSD and DSLs and I have to admit the ideas they suggest are rather seductive. I don’t mean that in a negative way, I simple mean the end goal of … Continue reading →

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DHH and Fowler on RIA

Posted on May 29, 2007 by Daniel Roop

Scott Hanselman caught up with DHH and Martin Fowler at railsconf and started a discussion on RIA and where it fits into web applications. I believe in my previous article I was a little more open minded about the topic, … Continue reading →

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current_page?

Posted on April 24, 2007 by Daniel Roop

This weekend I found myself caught in a love/hate relationship with a certain method in rails. I love this method because it uses some sort of mind control to know exactly when to show a link and when to show … Continue reading →

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TallyHoh OpenID

Posted on April 22, 2007 by Daniel Roop

I was going through my feeds this morning on Tallyhoh and I came across Adam Fortuna’s post on Problems with OpenID?. He was discussing a post done over at Factory City a site I hadn’t seen before. His article, Problems … Continue reading →

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Resful Resources

Posted on April 18, 2007 by Daniel Roop

Over the last two weeks Tyler and I have been coding like mad men, after work to get closer to a feature complete TallyHoh beta. One of annoying things I came across when I was making the transition to Resful … Continue reading →

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