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Looking for a new NullDB maintainer
I love Open Source. NullDB, a weekend hack that I barely touched after its first version, continues to attract periodic forks and patches. For a long time I’ve been meaning to sit down and roll in all the contributions that … Continue reading
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Tagged activerecord, datamapper, floss, nulldb, oss, ruby, testing
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The State of SimpleDB Clones
Over the past couple weeks I’ve been updating the DataMapper SimpleDB adapter for DataMapper 0.10, an effort which yesterday culminated in the release of version 1.0.0. Testing against Amazon SimpleDB can be an excruciatingly slow process – not only can … Continue reading
TDD Accelerates Development
Periodically, well-meaning Agile advocates will make the argument that practicing Test-Driven Development trades development speed for better quality. That is, it slows you down but it’s worth it because the resulting code is better. Rubbish, I say. TDD makes me … Continue reading
Testing Private Methods
Periodically the question of how to test private methods comes up at work or online. My answer is: don’t. It may seem trite, but there is some reasoning behind it. Private methods are, by definition, implementation details. If you are … Continue reading
Announcing NullDB 0.0.1
I spent the afternoon coding an alternative to the ARBS and UnitRecord database-elimination plugins. Definitely scratching a personal itch, as I had a project where I wanted to use one of the above-mentioned libraries but i just couldn’t seem to … Continue reading
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Simple Design & Testing Conference 2007
I attended the Simple Design & Testing Conference over the weekend. A co-worker made me aware of it about two weeks ago, and since it was a) free; b) held at Penn State York, about 20 minutes from my house; … Continue reading
