I am going to be merging my philly_mac/señor internacional blog with this one, and just make use of categories. Easier for me to manage, and I am all about making my life easier.
From Mirai to Xing
Published on December 21, 2009
So after 1 year and 3 months I have decided that I will be making a move from my current company of Mirai España, in Madrid to Xing in Hamburg.
I have previously lived in Berlin for a year, so know what the German lifestyle is like. But even though I am very much looking forward [...]
Hold the phone
Published on December 17, 2009
Okay I have just realised something, I can just test use bacon along with rack-test to test rails applications using bacon. So scrap what I said yesterday. Now we will go with this
Bacon
Rack-test
Mocha
I think it is a good idea to write tests at the rack level. It means that your tests, and your testing skills [...]
Can we do it? Yes we CanCan
Published on December 17, 2009
So, I just watched the latest screen cast from Ryan Bates of railscasts.com fame, on a plugin that he has written called canan. It is an authorization plugin and he wrote it in response to a plugin that he had previously reviewed called declarative authorization, which he thought (and I agree) is too heavy weight [...]
Testing another testing stack
Published on December 16, 2009
Okay I have decided that I will test out using this testing stack on everything that I work on, so that I can become really excellent with this combination.
The stack is
TestUnit (An oldie but a goodie)
Shoulda
Mocha
Matchy
And that is it, hopefully these should keep the tests clean, manageable and easy to read.
I will also be using [...]
Ramaze
Published on November 27, 2009
I have decided to go back to writing all my personal projects in Ramaze. The only reason being I feel I need to broaden my knowledge horizon, and I feel it is the most complete and stable alternative ruby framework out there. I also see it having longevity. I am also quite impatient with waiting [...]
My Rails Lasagna
Published on October 15, 2009
With over two years worth of rails development under my belt something happened to me the other day. Something clicked, and not only was I a professional Ruby on Rails developer by way of my job, but I also became a professional Ruby on Rails developer by way of my state of mind.
Let me explain [...]
Wow & Crazy All at the Same Time
Published on October 3, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAfQwDizpRo
This is a video of a plane making a landing on an island in the Caribbean.This is just how I thought it would be, looking from the outside the plane when I went to Puerto Rico.
Firefox Add-on Collector – What A Pile Of Crap
Published on September 1, 2009
2.30 am local time, Spain. I have just been trying to use FireFox’s Add-on collector to manage a bunch of extensions that I like to have on my FireFox install. And my verdict, FAIL!!!
I don’t even want to go into the detail of why this is a good idea, but poor (maybe even the worse) [...]
Life is not a holiday
Published on August 28, 2009
I would love to be able to live life as if it were one big holiday.
But I have come to conclusion that life is not a holiday, and the things that you accept or don’t notice on holiday can not only be quite annoying if you have to deal with them on a daily basis, [...]