Posted on Thu, 27 Feb 2014 in Apps • Tagged with HTTP, Testing
When developing Web apps you spend a lot of time in the browser, and before long you have a crap-ton of open tabs which slows the system down and is a total pain to navigate around in.
I have previously used HTTP Client when testing JSON APIs, it did the …
Posted on Tue, 25 Feb 2014 in Development • Tagged with DevOps, Testing, Perl, Continuous Integration
A few months ago I gave a small talk at the Nordic Perl Workshop 2013, about a clever way of combining cpanm and local::lib to test your CPAN modules with the latest version of its dependencies.
I have a few perl modules on CPAN, which is mostly feature complete …
Posted on Wed, 22 Aug 2012 in Technology • Tagged with quote
If you think experts are expensive,
you should see how much amateurs cost.
Posted on Mon, 30 Jan 2012 in Technology • Tagged with quote
Debugging is twice as hard as writing code.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are not smart enough to debug it.
Posted on Sun, 15 Jan 2012 in Technology • Tagged with git, gitolite, scm
A while ago I upgraded from Gitosis to Gitolite. I've been using Gitosis for a long time and while there is nothing wrong with Gitosis, Gitolite just does so much more.
One of my favorite features is wildcard repositories which makes it super easy to have normal users create as …
Posted on Sun, 14 Nov 2010 in Books • Tagged with ePub, iPhone, Lisp, MIT, PragProg, Programming, Smalltalk, Stanza
I
recently listened to a very interesting
podcast from the
Pragmatic Programmers featuring an
interview with Uncle Bob. At
the end they talked about a book
Robert had
recommended at the most recent
RailsConf called
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.
It's an older book but it sounded like a …
Posted on Sun, 19 Jul 2009 in Pick of the week • Tagged with Apps, MacOSX, Tools
This
weeks pick is cute little utillity app from the
Iconfactory ((You know, the ones with
the Twitter bird icon that everybody copies)) called
xScope. If you do any
kind of design work
xScope will most
certainly help you in your day to day work.
xScope is really a
compilation …
Posted on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 in Development • Tagged with Firefox
It would seem that there really is some intelligent life somewhere... If you are serious about web development, you too would use this browser. The reason? - Firefox has a super cool extention system for which some must have/can't live without extentions exist. The most notable being these two: 1 …
Posted on Wed, 01 Feb 2006 in Development • Tagged with Ant, Java Windows, WTF
Man I hate Ant! So I was working on this project, in which Ant generates a build directory. - I created a symlink inside the build dir for something that was not quite ready to be build for real just yet. That way ant could do what ever it wanted to …