After hearing about RSpec, I ran into the idea of Behavior-Driven Development: Behaviour Driven Development is an Agile development process that comprises aspects of Acceptance Test Driven Planning, Domain Driven Design and Test Driven Development. RSpec is a BDD tool aimed at TDD in the context of BDD. My personal aesthetic tells me that this may well be The Next Big Thing... Continue Reading →
Twitter gets Microformatted
With help from Chris Messina, Twitter has added microformat support, specifically: hAtom (for the post stream) hCard (for user information) XFN (for the friends list) rel="me" (on the URL links in personal pages) It seems like the revolution will be twittered. 🙂
Steve Bjorg: The Story of the REST
With apologies to Paul Harvey, here's another Introduction to REST, courtesy of Steve Bjorg (with a little help from yours truly).
Microformats Governance
In a Lenten-induced fit of penance, I just proposed revamping the Governance of Microformats. It'll be interesting to see how many worm-cans I've opened up... [Initial Email to microformats-discuss]This issue has come up several times before, but never seems to have gotten traction. So (as part of my Lenten penance 🙂 I've finally decided to... Continue Reading →
ActiveRecord Refactoring Project
I am excited that Zach Dennis has taken up last year's cause of ActiveRecord Refactoring, since I never made much progress on my ActiveData efforts. Still, to help him out I've posted my pre-alpha ActiveData code, which builds on my earlier non-SQL ActiveRecord. I've pasted some excerpts below (Read More).
Restful Rails 1.2
One of the coolest new features of Rails 1.2 is the RESTful routing. In particular, the new scaffold_resource generator makes it really easy to mockup a basic resource-oriented web app with trivial amounts of code. Check it out. # rails 1.2.1# mongrel 1.0.1$ rails restful$ cd !$$ script/generate scaffold_resource Entry title:string content:text published:date# can now... Continue Reading →
The Architects of Cyberspace: Stalking the Hedgehog of 21st-Century IT
As one of my many extracurricular activities, I happen to serve on the Dean's Advisory Council for GCCIS, the College of Computing and Information Sciences at RIT. The thing I enjoy most about that experience is the opportunity to contemplate (and hopefully influence) the future of Computer Science/Information Technology education. Below is an essay I... Continue Reading →
OpenID: The RESTful approach to Single Sign-On
Been spending a lot of time on regular work, but a friend recently suggested I check out OpenID -- the de facto distributed authentication standard for Web 2.0. I think of it as "Decentralized Kerberos for the Internet", in that provides the ability to do Single Sign-On without the need for everyone to agree on... Continue Reading →
Mac Home Theater, Followup
I had some wonderful responses to my Simple Mac Home Theater article. One pointed me to this incredibly helpful Mac mini Media Center article, which was recently updated for the latest Intel minis. I was also encouraged to hang out on the HTPC Mac Chat Forum, which has lots of juicy data. The most useful,... Continue Reading →
Web As Pipe: State of the Art Rails Deployment
Hat tip to David Heinemeier Hansson for pointing me to: http://duncandavidson.com/essay/2006/06/webaspipe James Duncan Davidson basically writes the article I've been meaning to, but (as usual) way better. In particular, he explains precisely why FastCGI is so "weak", and also why the Mongrel/HTTP proxy model is so powerful. Moreover, he even captures how "un-original" (yet revolutionary!)... Continue Reading →
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