Archive for October, 2007

Web Development - The Next Generation

October 22nd, 2007

Over at the Central Virginia Ruby Enthusiasts Group (cvreg.org) blog I recently contributed an article reflecting on my talk to a local high school web design class. Since the overwhelming topic was money and jobs, not the art of programming and design, I had a chance to impart some of my observations of the [...]

Selenium_on_rails Quick Start

October 8th, 2007

Over the past few days I’ve been diving into Selenium, a automated functional testing tool for web apps. It’s pretty slick - in fact, like most of the technologies I’ve been using over the past two years, it does so much for you that the obstacle always ends up being a matter of getting [...]

Back to work!

October 4th, 2007

Well, I’ve put the update on my life off for far too long, time to come clean. As of Tuesday I am working for a D.C.-based web development firm that is focusing on Ruby and Rails. I get to work from home in Richmond and the work I’m doing is some pretty cutting [...]