Monthly Archives: March 2010

How to install rails on CentOS 5.4 x64

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Rob Pak

1. Download ruby source wget http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7.tar.gz tar -zxvf ruby-1.8.7.tar.gz 2. Install dependencies sudo yum install gcc sudo yum install gcc-c++ sudo yum install zlib-devel sudo yum install openssl-devel sudo yum install readline-devel sudo yum install sqlite3-devel 3. Build ruby from … Continue reading →

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Story Mapper is Release Planning for Pivotal Tracker

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Alon Salant

We’re proud to announce the release of Story Mapper, a project we have been working on at Carbon Five to support an Agile project planning technique called story mapping. We use Pivotal Tracker to manage our feature backlog and the … Continue reading →

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Ada Freezes Monsters with Snowballs (and Canvas)

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Alon Salant

Alex sent me an email Saturday morning with this really cute Canvas game he wrote with his daughter Ada. His timing was really great since I am on a panel at SXSW Tuesday called Is Canvas the End of Flash? … Continue reading →

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Testing iPhone View Controllers

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Jonah Williams

I have been writing tests around my iPhone apps’ view controllers in order to follow the same TDD practices we use in other environments. Writing tests first has changed the way I structure my code in a couple of ways … Continue reading →

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Javascript Testing Talk in Oakland

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Andy Peterson

Next week at EBig Jonah and I are wrapping up our world tour of talking about Javascript testing. March 17th in Oakland: ”Recent evolutions in Javascript testing frameworks now allow creating test suites, test-driving development, and running tests on a continuous … Continue reading →

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Alon on Flash and Canvas at SXSW

Posted on March 1, 2010 by Alon Salant

I’m looking forward to participating in a panel Is Canvas the End of Flash? this month at SXSW on the role the new HTML Canvas element is playing in web development and how it compares to Flash. Much of the … Continue reading →

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