Pin ItWorking in conjunction with my coworker Rod, we came up with a name for code like this: begin … rescue ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid => error end We're calling it 'THIS IS SPARTA!' code, as in the scene from the movie 300 where the king of Sparta kicks the Persian messenger into the archetypal infinitely deep [...]
Read More »Pin ItDana Blankenhorn makes a good point that credibility is key to open source: I have long believed credibility to be the coin of the realm in open source, far more so than in a proprietary operation. Trust is needed to build a community, to draw contributions, and to gain commitments for enterprise installations. It’s [...]
Read More »Pin ItSo, the documentation that tells you how to do what I'm about to tell you already exists, it just wasn't easy for me to find. Hopefully you've ended up here by googling for something like 'jruby cruisecontrol.rb'. I needed to get our JRuby project going under CruiseControl.rb, and it didn't just work out of [...]
Read More »Pin ItThere have been a few studies about women in open source – mostly focused on the fact that there are so few of us – only 2% by some counts! Leslie Hawthorne's comment got me thinking: I far more often than not find women playing a similar role and doing similar tasks: building [...]
Read More »Pin ItSo, I'm chugging along, enjoying myself, writing some RoR code, and run across one of the funnier method names I've ever seen. I had to make an effort to use it, so here it is… I'm using it in as many yml fixtures as I can. created_at: <%= 1.fortnight.ago.to_s :db %> Fortnight? [...]
Read More »Pin ItAt LinuxWorld this year I gave a talk called How Global 2000 Companies Are Addressing Open Source Legal Concerns. It was a fun talk (for me) because the audience was really interested and they not only asked lots of questions but a couple of them also provided some interesting anecdotes afterwards. I talked about: [...]
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