This past weekend I had the pleasure to attend a local conference, acts_as_conference. The conference was described as an event that was focused on Ruby on Rails, but it seemed to be much more focused on Ruby, with Rails in mind. Overall I think the conference was a great success at $100 a […]
acts_as_conference
February 11th, 2008 · 3 Comments
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Eric Evans Presentation at JAOO
November 21st, 2007 · No Comments
I was clicking through infoq this morning, and came across a presentation by Eric Evans on DDD. Eric wrote the book Domain Driven Design. I have not yet had the pleasure to read this book, but I will be sure to put up a review as soon as I get to it.
I […]
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Assert Property Equality
October 23rd, 2007 · No Comments
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 for a person object.
public boolean equals(Object o) {
Person person = (Person) o;
[…]
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TDD By Example Reviewed
August 29th, 2007 · No Comments
I recently got a chance to read through Test Driven Development: By Example (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series) by Kent Beck. For those who don’t know, Kent, is the person behind eXtreme Programming and TDD, along with a laundry list of other items. Having not read many technical books cover to cover I wasn’t […]
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