2008

Jul

How Ruby gems boost productivity

The other day I was considering the huge amount of tiny gems and plug-ins that the Ruby and Rails...
Jul 21st
Warch Watch
Ruby Driven Development 4 Java A screencast illustrating how to install and use Buildr, Rspec and...
Jul 5th

Jun

Jython Reborn

Discussing at lunch with Jake today about Jython I said that Python is the real missing language...
Jun 27th

Go Scott Go!

This is a perfect example of cross-language person, someone who lives “on the other...
Jun 26th

Strangling Strategies

I first heard about the strangler metaphor from Martin Fowler’s blog. In that context the...
Jun 11th

Del.icio.us!

I can’t say why for such a long time I never used Del.icio.us. I think I subscribed years ago...
Jun 4th

May

Give it some REST

This morning I had the pleasure to listen to this podcast on SE Radio while running on a beautiful...
May 26th

dTunes First Release

Ladies and gentlemen, a first absolutely-beta release of “Disposable Tunes” is now...
May 1st

Apr

The Elastic Server

I’ve been impressed by the presentation I attended this afternoon at the Chicago Ruby Group...
Apr 19th

Stop Making your Own Agile!

I heard many times people talking about the fact that they are agile because they don’t...
Apr 18th

Tracking Tomatoes

I’m spending again some time to improve my time tracking process. The last step I’ve...
Apr 5th

Mar

The 5th Iteration

The 5th iteration was fatal. I’ve spent the last 2 months in a very interesting project. On...
Mar 29th

Metrics Fun

Do you have some spare time at work? Waiting for the next user story? Or maybe just thinking...
Mar 28th

Fun With LinkedIn

I don’t know about you, but LinkedIn never worked for me as a professional career tool. I...
Mar 9th

The Database Irritating Inconvenience

It’s already the second or third time in my career that I encounter problems introducing a...
Mar 8th

Smart Driven Development

At the beginning it was very easy: you just write your test first, ahead of the application code and...
Mar 5th

Feb

Once again ladies and gentlemen here’s the RhinoMocks template for ReSharper to create your...
Feb 25th

www.iwasworkingwithrails.com

Starting from December I joined a cool small company called Obtiva. Don’t take that wrong: we...
Feb 19th

Search for The New Land

It’s time for a new blog engine. iWeb is very flexible but you have to pay for that...
Feb 18th