…Windows support, thanks to our MVP , Doug MacEachern of VMware. Doug has added an environment provider that lets you automate the process of setting your environment variables, user and group support, and the ability to mount filesystems on Windows. Doug has also written a ton of plugins for ohai, and he even takes the time to write vbscripts to set up chef-client for his in-laws!
In this release, we've updated our handling of attribute precedence, fixing CHEF …
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Doug Barth of Interactive Mediums has created two plugins for monitoring RabbitMQ , an enterprise messaging system based on the emerging AMQP standard.
Doug's RabbitMQ Overall Monitoring Plugin monitors the overall health of RabbitMQ - reporting the number of queues, connections, etc. His RabbitMQ Queue Monitoring Plugin drills down to a specific queue.
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The great news is while I tweeted about my move to Harvest, Doug, which I knew from his time in Denver mentioned that he now works for Harvest. So he put me in contact with the cofounder and I asked him if they could get some deal for my current users, and they where very responsive and create a special promo code. Thanks for that and I hope you try and enjoy their services. Just for disclaimer I didn't ask for any monetization or anything for referring you to Harvest, the idea was …
At long last, the fifth in my series of notes taken from keynotes at CUSEC 2010 , the 2010 edition of the Canadian University Software Engineering Conference. These are from Douglas " JavaScript: The Good Parts " Crockford's keynote in which he talks about how hard it is to make software. Doug is a senior JavaScript architect at Yahoo!, the guy behind JSON , wrote one of the first important pieces on JavaScript's unrealized power …
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…coverage ( 81.9% right now) are the best way to catch these bugs! With a code bed so large, the test suite is used as much for regression testing as it is for anything you gain with TDD/BDD.
Personally, I am with Doug's tweet above, forget functional testing and even view testing and head straight for the integration testing. If you are doing it yet, look at webrat and cucumber. After all, we want a rails app that works from top to bottom, right?
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Doug
Venturing out to your local mall without a plan is like being dropped into the middle of the jungle with a Nerf gun and a pair of safety scissors. MacGyver would make it out alive, but you won't. Use your card as your guide to keep you on task and on message.
Tell me what you showed me
After your gift has been opened make sure to follow up with the recipient. You are going to reiterate all the points you laid out in card to ensure the full extent of your thoughtfulness …