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Further Adventures in Rails Testing

Yesterday I went to “Hack Day ‘Effective Testing for Rails Projects’” at Viget Labs in Falls Church.  After Ruby DCamp I decided I was severely lacking in testing skills as a developer and I’m trying to do something to remedy that.  With the promise of “building a simple Rails application and a pair-programming environment” as [...]

September 27, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Ruby, TDD  No Comments

Ruby DCamp Day Two

In the past I’ve had a history of only posting about the first day of a barcamp.  This is my attempt to buck that trend.
The second day of Ruby DCamp was just as awesome as the first.  For visual proof of how great it was there is the rubydcamp tag on flickr. There is something [...]

September 20, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Ruby, unconferences  No Comments

Ruby DCamp Day One

This is really a non-geo post, but I currently do a lot of geo-related programming in Ruby.
Ruby DCamp is the first unconference/barcamp I’ve attended where we actually camped. I’ve been to barcamps such as WhereCamp that had a history of camping, but happened to be unable to the year I attended.  So far I [...]

September 18, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Ruby, unconferences  No Comments

Twitter/Latitude Location Updater

Today Google opened up the Latitude feed so you can get your Latitude location in a KML or JSON feed.  I have been working on a longer term project to create a Twitter updater service but to play with the Latitude feed I wrote a quick Ruby script.  With the json and twitter gems it [...]

May 4, 2009   Posted in: GIS Programming, Mash-up, Ruby  Comments Closed