http://wagaman.org thoughts, theories, theology, and the rest Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:47:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I thought it would be good to write down a few of my thoughts from CodeMash before I forget about it. There's certainly more that impacted me, but something is better than nothing. Pre-Compiler: Test Driven Development: From Concept to Deployment by Leon Gersing Leon did a great job of somehow ... http://wagaman.org/2010/my-codemash/ I'm electronifying my notes from conferences and such. Here's my notes from Jim Weirich's SOLID design principles in Ruby talk from eRubyCon 2009. 1.) Single Responsibility Principle a class should have 1 reason to exist describe the purpose of your class in a single sentence (you shouldn't need and/or) 2.) Open/Closed Principle you should ... http://wagaman.org/2009/solid-design-principles/ Here are a few keybindings to help navigate in less space | forward 1 screen b | back 1 screen Enter | forward 1 line k | back 1 line g ... http://wagaman.org/2009/more-about-less/ In October, when my Laptop turned 5, and started getting a little fritzy, I started thinking about what my next machine should be. I considered getting another laptop, perhaps a MacBook. I really wanted a machine that would not complain if I worked it too hard. Laptops ... http://wagaman.org/2009/building-my-own-computer/ The time has gone by so fast. Before I knew it, my baby James has grown up to be a 3-year-old. He is such a sweet little kid. It's fun to see James all grown up (no longer a baby). I still can't imagine Joey at ... http://wagaman.org/2009/james-turns-three/ I ran across a good article about the current state of the economy. It's a good explanation of the mess we are in, how we got here, and some current thoughts on how to get out. http://wagaman.org/2009/the-state-of-the-economy/ It's been a long time since I posted anything in my blog, so I thought I ought to break the silence. Lately, I've been trying to get myself caught up on the test-driven/behavior-driven development philosophy. If you are a programmer, maybe you can relate to my struggles of ... http://wagaman.org/2009/testing-my-patience-a-skeptics-thoughts-on-beginning-to-write-tests/ Today I was writing some specs with RSpec, the Ruby BDD Testing Framework. In between tests, classes aren't reloaded by default, so I went about try to figure out how to reload a class for certain tests. Active Support defines a method on Class called remove_class. This provides half of ... http://wagaman.org/2008/myrubyclassreload/