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Rails Yet To Make Dent in the Enterprise?
Managed to post this twice becuase their system wouldn't let me log in ... http://www.adtmag.com/article.aspx?id=21641> Absence of sophisticated IDE/Debugging tools - Eclips
RSpec gotchas with exception handling
If your code throws exceptions then beware that RSpec uses exceptions to talk to itself, if you catch exceptions then beware that you could be masking the error RSpec is trying to report.If you're staring at something tha
Department of the obvious says ...
Posted here on Sticky Minds:The interfaces are part of the list of deliverables, surely? I can't see why this isn't just a restatement of the obvious. It's where all the effort used to go in the old days, e.g. if you were putting in Oracl
SOAP idiocy - do not use it to send XML strings
I'm getting really tired of this:SOAP - used to stand for Simple Object Access Protocol. Apparently it doesn't any more but who cares?In essence, c
Goating
Goating Swap the M and N keys round ...Then turn co-worker's drawer unit round so the back is facing them ...Then try not to laugh too hard when they realise what's happened and go for their penknife in the drawer to lever the keys off .
State of digital software distribution
Comment here The problem is - if you start charging less than the recommended retail price the retailers are going to stiff you and stop stocking your product. They have to make a living too. So the only thing you can do is charge the RRP.
Response to the vagueware blog
Comment left here: I have a work laptop that has XP Pro SP 2 on it. Windows these days isn't bad. It very rarely freezes. My main problem is actually with Netbeans Nestor which I use for Rails development and is OS/Free and locks up at least twic
Response to Coding Horror: Embracing Languages Inside Languages
Comment left for Embracing Languages Inside LanguagesThe "sql is different across platforms" argument is pure nonsense. If you stick to the ANSI syntax it will work across MySQL/Oracle/DB2 and most of the others. If you use something like