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IE on Mac without Parallels/VMWare

over 4 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
Benjamin Quorning gave a great tip at the Copenhagen Ruby Brigade mailing list the other day: How to run (Windows) Internet Explorer on your (Intel-based...

Is the Rails process too slow?

~4 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
I’m currently working on a report comparing the Linux Kernel, KDE, Dokuwiki and Ruby on Rails in terms of how they work and perform as open source...

Running Capybara and RSpec without Rails

10 months ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
Inspired by a recent Railscast on Capybara, I decided to satisfy my holiday coding urges by looking into how Capybara might help us automate more testing...

Happy New Year!

~4 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
In Denmark, this song is always put on TV just after the clock has struck midnight. On TV, it is a large girl’s choir performing, but I thought it...

Talking at BarCamp Copenhagen

~4 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
I’ll be giving a talk at BarCamp Copenhagen January 25th. I haven’t decided exactly what I am to talk about yet, but it is going to be on the...

Impressions from BarCamp Copenhagen

~4 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
It’s the day after the second BarCamp in Copenhagen ever, and the first one that I’ve been lucky enough to participate in. Heck, I even presented at...

Scoped Access - stay DRY

almost 4 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
One of my first hobby projects in Ruby on Rails, and for sure the longest living, is called Dinnerlyzer. It is a small, simple, pink (!) application that...

Ruby Fools: Dave Thomas’ keynote

almost 4 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
The Ruby Fools 2008 conference is the first large-scale conference in Denmark dedicated to purely to Ruby. The opening keynote was done by Dave Thomas,...

Ruby Fools: Matz’s keynote

almost 4 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
It’s not often that Japanese Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, the creator of the Ruby programming language, visits Europe, and his visits to Denmark are...

Notes from Ruby Fools 2008

almost 4 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
Although Ruby Fools 2008 was a great conference, I’ve only found the time write articles about two key notes, the ones of Dave Thomas and Matz. But I...