ollysb

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by ollysb 16y ago
I've just moved over to rails. After 6 years of using poor APIs tapestry 5 was what finally tipped me over the edge. On the project we used it for we would actually allow 2 days to get a tapestry page working correctly. Howard (creator of t
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by ollysb 16y ago
Love it, how many times have you seen someone shaking and hitting something in a vain attempt to make it work?
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by ollysb 16y ago
The java ecosystem is optimised for maturity, ruby the cutting edge. That is to say that the cutting edge java libraries are considerably more painful to use than the cutting edge ruby libraries. If you're the kind of team that gravitates t
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by ollysb 16y ago
Ruby is actually more conservative on this issue, it isn't possible to make fields public. The attr_accessor macro is actually adding getters and setters. The implementions used for the getters and setters are equivalent to those that you w
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by ollysb 16y ago
There's definitely room for a bronze package there.
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by ollysb 16y ago
A slightly less harsh version I use is to remove my duvet and open the windows. Works in London where it's cold enough outside anyway.
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by ollysb 16y ago
It was the similarity to prolog that first got me excited about erlang, I thought I'd found a language that used the same principles that could be used in the real world. Then I discovered there was no backtracking...
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by ollysb 16y ago
The dock at the bottom of my OS X screen very rarely gets used, typing the name of an app in quicksilver seems much faster.
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by ollysb 16y ago
Having the tutorial right there is a great improvement. Looking forward to working through it as it expands.
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by ollysb 16y ago
I receive sms messages from both a taxi service(on way/arrived) I use and a physiotherapy clinic(reminder that you have an appointment tomorrow at ...) that I use. I find these useful and am grateful to receive them. On the other hand if th
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by ollysb 16y ago
I was surprised to hear your objections to the user interface so I took a look at mantisbt. I found it interesting that I hated the interface for probably the reasons that you hate pivotal. IMO one of the great strengths of pivotal is that
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by ollysb 16y ago
I'm curious about the issues you have with pivotal tracker. After years of frustration with tools I've found pivotal to be a breath of fresh air. The killer feature is using historical velocity in conjunction with estimates to guestimate wh
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by ollysb 16y ago
It would be great to see a walk through tutorial in the same style as http://tryruby.org/ and http://try.redis-db.com/
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by ollysb 17y ago
BDD encourages the developer to define a clear behavioral specification for the unit of functionality before you implement it. By first focusing on the usage I find that the abstractions I produce are simpler and in turn have fewer unit tes
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Runcoderun ending private builds(blog.runcoderun.com)
12 points by ollysb 17y ago|2 comments
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Instant remote git repository(opsb.co.uk)
2 points by ollysb 17y ago|0 comments