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Join us for a Ruby Hackfest
We’re hosting a hackfest this upcoming Wednesday, October 13th. The doors open around 6p and we’ll code until 9 or 9:30, ending the night with optional lightning talks on the interesting work done. Come with your own ideas or team up with others and help out. http://www.meetup.com/sfruby/calendar/15036702/ There will be food and drinks, courtesy of …
Come geek out with us this Thursday!
Thursday we’re opening the doors to the San Francisco office and hosting a casual gathering for our fellow geeks. Want to see what other developers are working on or who’s using the latest and greatest gem/practice/database/etc? Do you have a side project or open source framework that you’re contributing to (or just using) that you …
We’re talking Agile at SFRuby…
Alon and I will be giving an hour talk about agile development next Wednesday at the SFRuby meetup: Agile software development provides a number of discrete practices to help you be a better programmer and a great provider of programming services to your clients, internal or external to your business. The continuous daily rigor of …
Carbon Five is hiring!
We’re growing our team in both the San Francisco and Los Angeles offices (yay!). We’re looking for bright, passionate developers who love to learn and work with their peers. We’re writing a lot of Ruby and JavaScript these days, but there’s also a fair bit of Objective-C (iPhone) and some Java as well. We’ll cross-train …
Intro to Spring MVC Talk at SD Forum
I’ll be speaking next Tuesday evening for SD Forum in Palo Atlo about Spring MVC. It’s mostly an introductory talk, but I’ll weave in some opinions and lessons learned from real projects. I’ll cover many of the MVC features, including those introduced in 3.0, by walking through code for a running application. Event Page Networking …
Solid State Disks
I’m a bit of a hardware geek. I tend to keep up on what’s new and neat. I’m a bit conservative when it actually comes to buying the latest and greatest, but that doesn’t stop me from following the trends. I’ve been eyeing solid state disks for the last year or so, speculating that they …
Database Migrations: Fail when database is out of date
The latest release of the Carbon Five Database Migration maven plugin supports a new goal: check. The check goal fails the build if the database isn’t up to date. That is, if there are pending migrations the plugin produces a clear message explaining that the database is out of date and lists the pending migrations. …
C5 Test Support new addition: FunctionalTestRunner
We’re always looking for new ways to test our applications and we’ve been trying a few new things on our projects. One of the recent additions is a JUnit test runner designed to help make writing and running functional tests easier. In Javaland, we use Selenium and/or HtmlUnit for our functional tests. These are the …
Web Application Testing @ SDForum October 6th
Updated: Added links to presentation and source code. I’ll be down in Palo Alto speaking about Automated Web Application Testing Tuesday October 6th. If you’re interest in getting a peek at the typical Carbon Five Java web architecture along with a variety of strategies and techniques for testing, c’mon down and join us. The session …