Andy Peterson

Ew… you got CSS in my Javascript

The other weekend I test drove a little Javascript library to output CSS style rules from within Javascript. I took the most obvious Javascript-literal approach to get the most out of Javascript support in editors. I called it Csster (“sister”), … Continue reading

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Javascript Testing Talk in Oakland

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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Test-Driven JavaScript with ScrewUnit and BlueRidge

Jonah and I are taking our presentation about Javascript Testing on the road next Tuesday at 6:30 in Palo Alto, at the SDForum The teaser for it… Recent evolutions in JavaScript testing frameworks now allow creating test suites, test-driving development, and … Continue reading

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Recipe for 5 Whys with an Agile Software Team

5 Whys is a great way to get at the root of quality problems. On my last three projects, when I felt like code quality was dropping, I ran a “5 Whys” session. I have found it adds variety, solves … Continue reading

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Agile Practices… visualized?

Only pure agile devotees will find it interesting… Revisiting agile methodologies, I wanted to solidify my understanding of the differences between agile, scrum, XP, etc. I went through a mini-research project of reviewing the “canonical” sources of these practices, and … Continue reading

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assert_changes and assert_no_changes in Ruby

Update: This code and documentation is now available on github: http://github.com/ndp/assert_changes/tree/master The Problem On our work on gobalto.com, we spend time to have good fixture data for our tests– data that can represent all the important application states that our … Continue reading

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Convenient CSS and Javascript in Ruby on Rails

I get tired of hunting through a hierarchy of folders and files, from the views to the public folder, to locate a certain CSS or Javascript file. It’d be convenient to have them right with the markup, but embedding these … Continue reading

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