Tweet I’ve been using Alfred for a while, and when version 2 came out, I just upgraded without trying to learn any of the neat new features. Today, I needed a change of pace, so I decided to take a peek and created a video of the outcome. In a nutshell, I’ve created a small workflow to convert Android display…
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So, you read a book about parenting…
Tweet I come to you as the world’s foremost expert on parenting. To be more specific, I am an expert at parenting my two daughters. There are many lessons you can learn from your own maturing process that can make you a better parent. Lessons in patience and diligence definitely come in handing when dealing with your children. There are…
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About that first test…
Tweet Yesterday, I was having a discussion with a young, bright, aspiring developer about code, and the subject of tests came up. In the Ruby community these days, the assumption is that everyone tests their apps, so our conversation evolved to the actual testing practice. I appreciate the many approaches to testing, so I started quizzing him about his process.…
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Restarting your apple’s airport network interface
Tweet Sometimes things happen and for reasons unknown, your airport stops working. You could go the menu bar, turn WIFI off, and then turn WIFI on again, or you could do create a shell script with these contents Make sure to replace en0 with en1 if you are on a Macbook Pro. Hopefully this tip will help someone searching for…
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Just enough testing
Tweet It’s happening again: An extremely successful software developer with a very large following lists his rules for success, and people jump for joy at the occasion, and use that list to justify their practices. That sounds great, doesn’t it? While reading, Testing like the TSA, I found myself nodding in agreement with what most David was suggesting. I didn’t…
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My new funky editor. A story about Sublime Text 2
Tweet A prologue Today, I use Sublime Text 2 for just about all my text editing needs. It is fast and fairly stable. It is customizable and it can use plugins from Textmate. It also allows me to have split windows and its concept for finding files, methods, and editor actions make me a productive developer. Over the years, I’ve…
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Why people don’t ask for advice
Tweet I’ve been writing code in some form or another for over 20 years now. In that time, I’ve explored quite a few different languages and problem domains. The great thing about software development, is that there are more problems to solve than any developer or set of hundreds of developers could solve. Lately, I’ve been exploring a new problem…
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If your tests don’t scale, you might want to look in the mirror
Tweet “Our test suite is slow” “Our test suite is fragile” You have to approach your test suite the same way you approach your application. In many cases, people don’t pay enough attention to your test suites. There are only a few guidelines to follow to have sane test suites that run in a decent amount of time. 1. Be…
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Fake camera for smoke testing Android application
Tweet While building out my current Android project, I came across the need for a way to have a camera on the emulator that didn’t require any manual input. Since I’m using Robotium to do my smoke testing, I headed to their mailing list first. After a couple of minutes of searching, I found the solution to my problem, so…