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» Spork to Spin RickyRobinson.id.au
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My family and me. On Tuesday, July 24, 2012. In my last post. I documented the trials and tribulations of getting spork. Working properly with RSpec. And a solution I devised to the problems. I also posted my solution to the SimpleCov issues list. Then Christoph Olszowka, the maintainer of SimpleCov introduced me. A lightweight alternative to spork for fast Rails testing written by Jesse Storimer. And then you submit RSpec or Test: Unit jobs to it over a unix socket using another process (. I guess you c...
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My family and me. All posts tagged guard. On Tuesday, July 24, 2012. In my last post. I documented the trials and tribulations of getting spork. Working properly with RSpec. And a solution I devised to the problems. I also posted my solution to the SimpleCov issues list. Then Christoph Olszowka, the maintainer of SimpleCov introduced me. A lightweight alternative to spork for fast Rails testing written by Jesse Storimer. Simple solutions appeal to me greatly. I guess you could always force a reload on th...
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My family and me. All posts tagged cucumber. On Tuesday, July 24, 2012. In my last post. I documented the trials and tribulations of getting spork. Working properly with RSpec. And a solution I devised to the problems. I also posted my solution to the SimpleCov issues list. Then Christoph Olszowka, the maintainer of SimpleCov introduced me. A lightweight alternative to spork for fast Rails testing written by Jesse Storimer. Simple solutions appeal to me greatly. I guess you could always force a reload on...
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» Test driving Socrata for Open Data RickyRobinson.id.au
http://rickyrobinson.id.au/2012/10/29/test-driving-socrata-for-open-data
My family and me. Test driving Socrata for Open Data. On Monday, October 29, 2012. The Queensland Police Service recently published some data. About reported offences from July 1997 to June 2012. I was interested to see how Socrata. Would handle that data. Here’s the results. Note that the graph is only displaying the first few years worth of data. Also note that this experiment was conducted for personal enlightenment purposes only! Larr; Spork to Spin. Last reply was Tuesday, October 30, 2012.
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» ICT: An industry for all! RickyRobinson.id.au
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My family and me. ICT: An industry for all! On Thursday, June 21, 2012. Today I joined Group X. To speak to year 10 students at St John’s Anglican College in Forest Lake about why there’s never been a better time to launch a career in tech. This post first appeared on the Group X blog. And it’s reposted here with their kind permission. If you look at any industry, from mining to health to construction to tourism, computer technology is the pivotal reason for advancing and improving efficiencies in each a...
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My family and me. All posts tagged group x. ICT: An industry for all! On Thursday, June 21, 2012. Today I joined Group X. To speak to year 10 students at St John’s Anglican College in Forest Lake about why there’s never been a better time to launch a career in tech. This post first appeared on the Group X blog. And it’s reposted here with their kind permission. If you look at any industry, from mining to health to construction to tourism, computer technology is the pivotal reason for advancing and improv...
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» Devonshire tea review RickyRobinson.id.au
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My family and me. When Karen and I get some free time, often we will indulge in one of our favourite pastimes: sipping tea and savouring a scone with jam and cream. We write about our Devonshire tea experiences in this part of the site. The Elm Haus Cafe. On Sunday, January 18, 2009. Posted in: Devonshire tea review. In my last article. I mentioned a little cafe in Mount Glorious called the Elm Haus. To see the Elm Haus in Google Street View.). A church at some point in its life. The Putumayo CD. Playing...
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» When spork puts a fork in your cucumber and a spanner in your specs RickyRobinson.id.au
http://rickyrobinson.id.au/2012/07/20/when-spork-puts-a-fork-in-your-cucumber-and-a-spanner-in-your-specs
My family and me. When spork puts a fork in your cucumber and a spanner in your specs. On Friday, July 20, 2012. TL;DR: Getting Rails, RSpec, Cucumber and SimpleCov to play nicely with spork is a pain. However, it. Possible to get them all working together. Ensure config.cache classes = true, that Rails threadsafe mode (config.threadsafe! Is not enabled, and then see my spec helper.rb file below. 8220;Look, I just wrote a couple of hundred lines of code! Was it all necessary? 8220;Oh.”. The main symptom ...
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» Publications RickyRobinson.id.au
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My family and me. This is a list of my publications, from most recent to least recent. Rickyrobinson.cached.bib bibtex file empty. This publications list is generated by. Test driving Socrata for Open Data. When spork puts a fork in your cucumber and a spanner in your specs. ICT: An industry for all! Of Thanksgiving Turkeys and Black Swans. The Australian and the new Battle of Jericho. No startup culture in Australia. RSpec: verifying model instance creation. Installing nokogiri on Mac OS X.
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» Eco-philo-pol RickyRobinson.id.au
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My family and me. On Economics, philosophy and politics. Of Thanksgiving Turkeys and Black Swans. On Saturday, January 01, 2011. A couple of months ago I finished reading The Black Swan (TBS) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. I suspect I’ll read it again sometime. In a nutshell, TBS is about (un)predictability, uncertainty and knowledge. Karen and the kids bought me the second edition of TBS. With uncertainty’s epistemic roots, Taleb spends some time discussing some important aspects of knowledge. Know...Knowled...