October 2011
3 posts
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Did you really think about your users' name?
I just stumbled upon a really interesting article which discusses the various name schemas used around the world. And although I thought I knew quite a bit about that topic, I never thought about the implications it has on web- and data design.
So if you are developing apps for people fromm various cultural backgrounds, do them and yourself the favor and read Personal names around the world @wrc...
Did you know about ruby's class_exec?
I just stumbled upon a little gem called “class_exec” while reading ruby’s Module docs. I don’t know about other developers preferences, but I really really hate eval(). It is fine in JavaScript for creating JSON objects, but apart from that I really do not like it. No matter if is a simple eval, instance_eval or class_eval. Writing code in strings and evaluating it...
Declarative cucumber features
Having an active community with lots of active developers and tons of blogs sharing code and setup might be considered great. And usually it is. But in case of cucumber I guess it was not always the best and therefore the removal of web_steps.rb in cucumber 1.1.0 is a huge and important step.
I have to admit, i never really liked cucumber! I t felt wrong and was annoying to maintain. So I sticked...