This is arguably unnecessary: my step definitions are already translating from English into Ruby, so why add this extra layer of indirection?
As I worked my way from the outside (the features) into the step definitions, I wasn't ready to commit myself to how I was going to couple the tests to my new application. By defining this interface, I've deferred that commitment a little later. I've also given myself a clean view of all the behaviour the new application needs to support. …
- Floehopper: Ruby Acceptance Testing
…that some of the presentations are in Japanese (unsurprisingly) although most of the slides include English and, of course, any Ruby is still readable. There were also several English language speakers including Sarah Mei, Carl Lerche, and Jake Scruggs. 2) The player/hosting for the videos seems to be super slow. Give it time and they'll load.
[jobs] Engine Yard are hiring! Did you know that Engine Yard - one of the biggest and brightest companies in the Ruby world - are …
- Phusion Corporate Blog: Making Ruby threadable: properly handling context switching in native extensions
- Ruby News: Ruby 1.9.2 is released
- Meta Bates: CoverMe - Code Coverage for Ruby 1.9
- RubyLearning Blog: Dmitry Lipovoi Winner RPCFN #10
- Engine Yard Ruby on Rails Blog: Introducing JRubyConf 2010
- Headius: My Thoughts on Oracle v Google
…Eito Katagiri, who did a wonderful job translating my slides, found a bunch of spelling errors and English is not his first language.
I just pulled out a table in the main hall and the table police where all over me. My mistake. Sorry. # rubykaigi
There were announcements everywhere about not doing this and yet I did. In my defense: I'm an idiot.
They're giving out an award to the person who committed most to Ruby 1.9.2: Yusuke Endoh # rubykaigi
A very nice gesture. …
- Open Sourcery: Getting the Ruby 1.9 ball rolling
- oldmoe: My RubyKaigi 2009 Presentations
- : Headed out: What I've been up to June + Early July ‘09
- RubyFlow - Search for jruby: RubyKaigi 2010 Conference Registration now open
…translation from Japanese to English and Matz was doing the translation from English to Japanese which lead the a moment where Matz had to translate Yehuda's (nice) criticism of Ruby 1.9.
One of things @ tenderlove really likes about 1.9 is using encodings is painless. You have to think about it but it's easy. # rubykaigi
Secret to getting commit rights on Ruby or Rails? Submit patches with tests over a consistent period. # rubykaigi
.@tenderlove doesn't think …
(Well, it's two English guys surrounded by tech gear and a psychedelic background. The interior of the TARDIS came to mind.)
The Windows Phone 7 Jump Start is the first of a number of free online courses on WP7 programming led by Microsoft MVPs , and you can jump in right now! Presented by Andy Wigley and Rob Miles , the Jump Start is made up of 12 50-minute videos for a total of ten hours' worth of training, covering development …
- Luigi Montanez: Respect the Browser - Lessons from JSConf 2009
- Vineet Gupta | Computer Programmer: Microsoft's Recent Announcements on Web Technologies
- igvita.com: State of Ruby VMs: Ruby Renaissance
- The "Tech. Arch.": A Breath of Fresh AIR in Rich Client Development
- How Software is Built: Interview with Michael Hart - Director of Engineering at Netflix
- a work on process: Weekend Links
I originally wrote this yesterday for the Brazilian audience but I think the theme is universal enough to publish it in English as well. Let me know what do you think.
Every once in a while, the subject around "Where are Women in Technology?" pops up.
This conversation usually takes place when I am attending some conference, so the logical argument ends up falling around this:
And case closed! The problem is that women feel embarrassed because of the booth babes and …
…Atlassian doesn't provide such a language pack. I just patch the default Australian English pack to get a US English pack. It works great and is almost no hassle to maintain.
User macros
I discourage their use in enterprise environement. The lack of versioning, automated testing and documentation makes them a nightmare to maintain. Just create Confluence plugins for everything you need.
PDF Export Language Support
This is a tricky one. It took us quite a while to find the …
- Igor Minar's Blog: DGC V: Customizing and Patching Confluence
…Example: If you want feedback on a video game from 13-year-old kids who are French and Chilean but speak English and have web cams. This is really bad idea for remote testing. Why?
Bandwith is a huge issue
Translation is a huge issue
Its hard to get consent to talk to kids
Hard to make behavioral inferences form web cams is tough
Security is a problem
People mis-assess their language skills. Nate mentioned that they ran into this issue a lot. A quick tip to overcome this is to …
- Vineet Gupta | Computer Programmer: Edge vs. Cloud Computing
- Lee Munroe: Notes From FOWA London 2009
- Intridea - Company Blog: The iPad at Work: Observations from a Programmer, Designer and QA Expert
- Viget Extend : The Development Lab: Regarding Recent Events
- Rails Illustrated: Interaction '09 Conference in Bullet Form
- Adhearsion Blog by Jay Phillips: Why I Like the iPad
…wanted to move for the potential of a better life for their family; and since he had a really good English instructor in Hong Kong, he already had a good foundation to start his new life in the states.
Armed with a love for both physics and computers, he entered college at Virginia Tech with the intention of majoring in Physics. "I liked Physics because I had a very good instructor in Hong Kong. I would tell people that the harder the exams were, the happier I was; I like the challenges …
- RubyLearning Blog: RPCFN: Mazes (#5)
- OmniNerd: Corporate Responsibility to Employee vs Customer
…maintain the same format with 2 full days of sessions, 2 parallel tracks, real time translation from English to Portuguese and Portuguese to English, coffee-break, the entire package. The quality will be the same.
Locaweb will keep on being the stewardship and main sponsor of the event. With 2 successful deliveries, I can't think of a better partner. So it will be " RubyConf Latin America by locaweb, co-presented by Ruby Central".
We just opened up a teaser website …
- Giles Bowkett: RubyConf Antarctica