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Simple Ruby Mocking

over 4 years ago by Peter Harkins on Push cx.
I mentioned at the end of my last post on testing that I wrote some code to do mocking for my unit tests in Ruby. Writing a small mock library was very...

Moved to D.C.

over 4 years ago by Peter Harkins on Push cx.
My girlfriend Jess and I have moved to Washington D.C. so she can advance her career in political journalism. I figured I’d better post when I got...

Fixtures in Ruby Unit Tests

over 4 years ago by Peter Harkins on Push cx.
I’m writing some Ruby scripts that sort and store lots of small files. After a day or two of hacking I had the basic code working, ran through a few...

Adequacy is Inadequate

over 4 years ago by Peter Harkins on Push cx.
This post started as a comment on Reg Braitwaithe’s post Certification? Bring it on! and metastasized into a post of its own. It sounds like you...

Google Zombies

over 4 years ago by Peter Harkins on Push cx.
Google has hired a bunch of my friends and professional acquaintances, and I’ve met a few more from the growing Chicago office, and a number of them...

Good Timing

over 4 years ago by Peter Harkins on Push cx.
This morning, at about 4:30 AM, I awoke and just knew the Right Way to rebuild RegistryPro to be completely reliable, even more compact, and provide meaningful...

Serve the Servants

over 4 years ago by Peter Harkins on Push cx.
Last night I went to an open-invite Google Tech Talk / not-so-secretly a recruiting pitch. There were a couple of good presentations, but the best part...

Quiet Week

over 4 years ago by Peter Harkins on Push cx.
This blog will be quiet for the next week; I’m headed out on vacation with some friends until May 24th. If you mail me, please be patient for a response...

Flash Gaming

over 4 years ago by Peter Harkins on Push cx.
Hey, it’s Friday. Stop being productive. Here’s the games I’ve been consistently returning to the last few weeks. Boxhead: More Rooms...

Assembla: Interesting but Broken

over 4 years ago by Peter Harkins on Push cx.
Assembla looks like it wants to be a Rails version of SourceForge, and it could easily beat sf.net. If it weren’t buggy. A friend started a project...