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Archive for November 2009

Testing command-line apps with Cucumber

In Ruby, Testing on 14 November 2009 with no comments

.cuke-pass { color: #4e9a06; } .cuke-fail { color: #d73734; } .cuke-pending { color: #c4a000; } .cuke-skipped { color: #06989a; } I recently wrote a tiny little tool called Claw to help me work on large codebases in gEdit. It provides a terminal that lets you search for files by name and content using very minimal [...]

Helium: a package server for JavaScript

In Git, Helium, JS.Class, JavaScript, Metaprogramming, Ojay, PackR, Ruby, Yahoo! UI on 2 November 2009 with 7 comments

Last week, my former employer theOTHERmedia open-sourced the last project I worked on there: Helium. It’s a web application that lets you deploy JavaScript packages from Git and load them on-demand into any website by including a single script tag. There’s been a lot of innovation in JavaScript deployment recently, and Helium fits a particular [...]