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After many attempts over many …

After many attempts over many years, i have finally tamed the #vim beast. I think i now have an #editor for life.

Plus 3 in hamburg. It’s basica…

Plus 3 in hamburg. It’s basically summer. :-/

http://tr.im/OXpt haha

http://tr.im/OXpt haha

I am now using my ipod 120gb a…

I am now using my ipod 120gb as a portable HD as well. It has so many uses.

Where is the discipline http:/…

Where is the discipline http://bit.ly/c9oDDI

Two Become One (or is that three?)

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

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

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

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

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 [...]