I have been following Kitchen Criminals . The first week brings us a recipe from John Burton Race(of The New Angel) FOR French Toast with Apples and Calvados sauce Well, we tried that for breakfast this morning and the kids…
RSPEC: Am I going too far.
I just had a nice idea for how to make my current application prettier. Instead of stopping what I was doing (an item on the critical path, not ‘fluff’) and doing it, I added it as an unimplemented expectation in…
Lunch, pure and simple.
Sardines, Sauted Courgette, well buttered toast. Wonderful. The courgettes cut on the bias, lightly scored (Thankyou Jamie, it does make a difference), salt and fresh pepper and squeeze of fresh lemon juice while in some nice hot olive oil.
It Is a Wonderful Day…
… out there. Sunny, clear, not too humid. I am stuck in here, in my office, coding for my current client. Loving it. I am a lucky lucky man, sad, ooh so sad, but LUCKY.
The loneliness of the long distance tester
Well, today I have been coding a new section of the application my current client needs. I have been using RSPEC, and although I LOVE its expressiveness I find that if I use TDD/BDD to its upmost, I spend a…
Sausages and Spuds
I can wholeheartedly recommend the sausages that Howarth and Sons produce, they never disappoint. A local restaurant I liked a lot, called ‘The Greyhound’ closed several months ago. When we where last there, I had these chips that where wonderful.…
An evening wasted…
I tend to use music as I code. I like to do about two albums worth of coding and then take a break. My current music player is gnomes musicbox and it does not have a feature to allow me…
Ahhhh, RIBS
Bacon Ribs, boiled with cabbage, potatoes and carrots. Truely wonderful basic cooking, simple, wholesome, filling and tasty.
Rails Logging
Wow, today is a day of NEW THINGS. First autotest, growl and RSPEC, and now… The rails LOGFILE analyser. Pretty thing, time will tell if I will find it useful. You can find it Here.
Wonderful wonderful Copenhagen, no, wait, erm…. Autotest…
Over the last day or so, I have been playing with RSPEC. I must admit, its NICE. What makes it even nicer, is using autotest This is a nice addon that will automatically run your tests or rspecs when you…