Now that unit testing and test-driven development have hit the mainstream, more and more companies are beginning to embrace these agile practices. What isn’t always clear is which practice is most useful in which scenario, and how alternatives like state-based testing and non-automated human-tester activities can be used most cost-effectively. …
Senior Erlang Consultant Michal Slaski and Creator of the Nitrogen Framework Rusty Klophaus were interviewed by Craig Smith of O’Reilly GMT.
GitHub had a problem. I needed a fast, robust way for one Ruby process to make low-latency calls to another. I looked at Thrift and Protocol Buffers, but those solutions were too complex and not flexible enough to hang with Ruby. To solve the problem, I created BERT, BERT-RPC, and …
There are a number of areas where rails can help web application developers ensure that their applications are appropriately secured (eg, CSRF protection and encoding of output) but there are others which can never really be addressed by frameworks alone. Additionally it’s very easy when developing an application to make …
Ingredients include: * very large tough customer with many needs and a strong tendency to waterfall * 1 sales team that is not accountable in any way for the promises made * 2 analysts trying to figure out what is needed and each is telling the teams what to do …
In this episode we are going to start taking a look at some of the new features which are part of .Net 4. We will be focusing this episode on Named and Optional Parameters. Optional Parameters all you to default values for your methods which can reduce the need to …