I just released a small Emacs minor mode, rspec-mode
that provides some convenience functions related to dealing with
RSpec.
So far this minor mode provides some enhancements to ruby-mode
in the contexts of RSpec specifications. Namely, it provides the
following capabilities:
toggle back and forth between a spec and it’s target (bound to
\C-c so)
verify the spec file associated with the […]
I just spent a long time diagnosing an RSA public key exchange
problem. Google was of very little help so hopefully this article will
get picked up save someone else the trouble in the future.
The problem is this an RSA public key PEM or DER generated by
Ruby’s OpenSSL::PKey::RSA are unreadable by
OpenSSL, Bouncy Castle and probably other crypto […]
For any tech people in the Denver/Boulder area I wanted to point
out that there is a BrainJam unconference happening this
Friday (April 11th). Looks like a lot very interesting people have
signed up so far, and I will be attending, so I have high expectations. If you are able to join us find me and […]
I am going to be at MountainWest RubyConf tomorrow and Saturday.
I looking forward to meeting and hanging out with lots of interesting
peoples in the Ruby community. Oh, and the
schedule looks very interesting.
I really enjoy finding and using good tools. There are a couple of tools I have
been using lately that give me that warm fuzzy feeling in spades, so I
thought I would share.
curl-loader
The first one is curl-loader. This is a really nice tool for load
testing web applications. It is based on
cURL1, which as […]
Mr Dekorte take on concurrency in shared memory systems
If you’re looking for languages or concurrency tools that will scale
to the high core count desktop machines of the near future, I
wouldn’t put stock in MISD oriented solutions such as transactional
memory or elaborate functional programming compiler
techniques. Shared […]
There has been a great deal of discussion
regarding
RESTful
web service
description languages this week. The debate is great
for the community but I think Steve Vinoski has it basically right
never once — not even once — have I seen anyone develop a consuming
application without relying on some form of human-oriented
documentation for […]
This week I worked on a project that uses Subversion and,
man, what a difference a year makes. Back then I dreamed of being
able use Subversion instead of Perforce. Now using svn
feels a bit like walking around waste deep in water.
I have been using Git almost exclusively for the last couple of
months. I […]
The OpenID 2.0 spec has been finalized. On the surface, it does
not seem to be very different from the 1.1 spec but it does include
at least one sweet new feature. It provides protocol support for directed
identity.
Directed identity is the concept of having a
single identity that appears to be a different identity for every
relying […]
A couple of months ago we hired a contractor to write a reporting
interface for our high volume monitoring system. Our system exposes
all of it’s data in RESTful web services, and his job has been to take
that data and allow users to create reports based on it.
This morning a couple of my teammates and I […]
