Outside In Development With Cucumber
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Another great slideshow on cucumber and behavior driven development.The LAZY Developer’s Guide to BDD (with Cucumber)
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A good explanation of Behavior Driven Development with CucumberDon’t Stop Supporting IE6
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Just don't work too hard at it - send them the printer stylesheet or something!Ruby on Rails Code Quality Checklist – Matthew Paul Moore
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Rails best practices. There's a growing need to ensure that code and design strategies maintain an extremely high level of quality across different projects. Ruby has hugely different (and better!) ways of OO design, and the Rails framework has a lot of opinions to be understood and remembered.Tutorial on ruby-debug
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A useful cheat sheet for ruby debugging using the ruby-debug gem.Massive Regular Expressions Toolbox | tripwire magazine
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One of the best articles on regular expressions that I've found.Send photos from iPhoto to Wordpress using Ruby : RubyFlow
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A cool little Ruby command line script to send selected photos from iPhoto to a draft post in a WordPress blog. Uses AppleScript and XMLRPCGenerate Random Passwords
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I wrote an article on the Sustainable Websites Blog on a quick program to Generate Random Passwords.
Tags: mac, password, ruby, scripts, shell
Summer 2009 Photos
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I got a DSLR camera! Thanks Nicole! I am super excited to use it. Not all of these photos are from it, just the last ones.
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Email Encryption Tutorial
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If you have a mac and use Mac Mail, I found a great step-by-step tutorial on how to set up your mac to send and receive encrypted email.
Why you would ever need to send encrypted email? Well, if you are a web site owner or designer, you should never send passwords over email, because email is readable by any computer (or person) in between your computer and the receiver’s. Or, if you have health information you don’t want to be made public. Or anything private that you don’t want other people seeing, like when you’ll be on vacation, where you live, your social security #, and the list goes on. Unfortunately, strangers on the internet will take advantage of your private information if you let them.
My company, SustainableWebsites.com has hosted web site customers that have been careless about connecting to their email or FTP from an unsecured network such as a coffeeshop or airport wifi. Unfortunately, they have had their emails stolen or web sites hacked. We have an article on web site security tips on our blog.
If you have a mac, and any interest in sending encrypted email (you should!), I recommend this tutorial, because it has screen shots and step-by-step instructions that most people can follow.
If you want to email me securely, you’ll need my public key, in either ascii or binary format, and I’ll need yours. Try out the tutorial and send me your public key.
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