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Review of Udmey Course: BDD and TDD in Ruby by Roy Osherove - self.extended(thoughts)
http://jonkinney.com/blog/2013/09/23/review-of-udmey-course-bdd-and-tdd-in-ruby-by-roy-osherove
Code, Entrepreneurship, Music, Life. Review of Udmey Course: BDD and TDD in Ruby by Roy Osherove. Avdi Grimm recently tweeted. About a new Udmey course TDD and BDD in Ruby. I’m not sure if this was an endorsement by Avdi, or more of a “oh hey, there’s this thing over here which might be interesting” type mention, but when Avdi tweets. Hellip; people listen, so I decided to go check out the course. What follows is the review I left on the Udmey site, shared here more widely. Another thing that was a bit g...
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Back to Consulting! - self.extended(thoughts)
http://jonkinney.com/blog/2014/07/29/back-to-consulting
Code, Entrepreneurship, Music, Life. I’m excited to announce that after a few years in the startup game, I’ll be returning to consulting full time! Starting August 1st I’ll be the Chief Architect at FasterAgile. If you or someone you know needs top notch Ruby on Rails or Ember.js talent, let me know. Posted by Jon Kinney. Laquo; Review of Udmey course: BDD and TDD in Ruby by Roy Osherove. Husband and Father, Rails Dev and Chief Architect at FasterAgile. How to Be a One-Man Coding Army for a Startup.
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How to Be a One-Man Coding Army for a Startup - self.extended(thoughts)
http://jonkinney.com/blog/2012/11/05/cvcc-2012-talk
Code, Entrepreneurship, Music, Life. How to Be a One-Man Coding Army for a Startup. Last weekend I was fortunate enough to be invited to speak at Chippewa Valley Code Camp - 2012. CVCC is a free, 1-day, 4-track conference in Eau Claire, WI that attracts some of the brightest developers in Wisconsin and Minnesota. This year there were over 120 attendees and some 20 speakers presenting on things ranging from running a massive Java web application at scale. To Single Page Applications with JavaScript. How t...
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Wiring Up LittleSnapper to CloudApp - self.extended(thoughts)
http://jonkinney.com/blog/2012/10/01/wiring-up-littlesnapper-to-cloudapp
Code, Entrepreneurship, Music, Life. Wiring Up LittleSnapper to CloudApp. I used to love Skitch, but the recent changes have made it less awesome so I decided to seek out alternative options. I have a licensed copy of LittleSnapper. From a bundle of Mac apps that I purchased a while back so I decided to give it a go. I also use CloudApp multiple times per day (and pay for a pro subscription) so I was encouraged when I saw an article. Here’s how it works:. Details with Code and Screenshots. Use your Mac u...
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My New Gig at Bolstr - self.extended(thoughts)
http://jonkinney.com/blog/2012/07/07/my-new-gig-at-bolstr
Code, Entrepreneurship, Music, Life. My New Gig at Bolstr. It’s been nearly seven months since I joined the great team at Bolstr. As Chief Technology Officer and I have to say, it’s a job that gets even better with time! Since I started, I’ve done a bunch of things:. Made significant improvements to http:/ bolstr.com. Added a ton of functionality to our main application and improved test coverage / speed. Written a robust wrapper gem. Switched to using Tmux and Console Vim. Started a Ruby User Group.
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Blog Archive - self.extended(thoughts)
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Code, Entrepreneurship, Music, Life. Review of Udmey Course: BDD and TDD in Ruby by Roy Osherove. How to Be a One-Man Coding Army for a Startup. Using PhantomJS (Through Poltergeist) and Selenium in the Same Cucumber Test Suite. Wiring Up LittleSnapper to CloudApp. Posted in os x. Breaking Out of an Iframe From a Rails Controller. My New Gig at Bolstr. Using Save and open page to Open Failed Cucumber Scenerios in a Browser With Images and CSS. Posted in linux, rails. Posted in os x.
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Intridea Blog Posts - self.extended(thoughts)
http://jonkinney.com/blog/2011/10/12/intridea-blog-posts
Code, Entrepreneurship, Music, Life. I’ve been blogging lately, just not here :) If you want to see some of my lastest posts check them out at http:/ intridea.com/about/people/jon. You can see the “Published Posts” section after my bio. Here are direct links to what is posted to date (I’ll try to keep this updated). It’s not enough to bash in heads, you’ve got to bash in minds…with ZSH (May 18, 2011). Remote Cold Boot a Mac (January 14, 2011). Posted by Jon Kinney. My New Gig at Bolstr ».
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Easily Convert a Has_and_belongs_to_many to a Has_many_through in Rails (for: MS SQL Server) - self.extended(thoughts)
http://jonkinney.com/blog/2010/03/06/easily-convert-a-has-and-belongs-to-many-to-a-has-many-through-in-rails-for-ms-sql-server
Code, Entrepreneurship, Music, Life. Easily Convert a Has and belongs to many to a Has many through in Rails (for: MS SQL Server). This is from an old app that managed a relationship between MetaKeywords and Pages. Manage meta keyword associations. Find all by page id. Meta keywords to add. Meta keywords to add. Meta keywords to remove. Meta keywords to remove. Find by meta keyword id and page id. Here’s another post. For more discussion on transactions in Rails look at this stackoverflow thread. Because...
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Breaking Out of an Iframe From a Rails Controller - self.extended(thoughts)
http://jonkinney.com/blog/2012/07/08/breaking-out-of-an-iframe-from-a-rails-controller
Code, Entrepreneurship, Music, Life. Breaking Out of an Iframe From a Rails Controller. For the docusign rest. Gem that I recently created I needed to break out of the DocuSign iframe after a signer successfully signed the embedded PDF and redirect to a controller action showing that action’s view. After a bit of Googling I found this code snippet:. Which can be implemented in a Rails controller like so:. The above code snippet takes the place of the traditional. You chose not to sign the document. How t...