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  Getting HolyGrail to work with RSpec & Cucumber I spent some time getting HolyGrail (wrapper around Harmony) to work with Rspec and Cucumber.

  5 months on Chimp
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  Using proxy auto config files (PAC) to test subdomains Let's suppose the you're testing an application that depends on a domain name, or uses sub domains. You could edit /etc/hosts and create a bunch of random domains, but what if you forget one? Here's an alternative way, using Proxy Auto Config files.

  7 months on Chimp
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  What the pundits says is barely true... or WORSE Look at the current pundit scores at Politifact's Truth-O-Meter. What they say is flat out wrong, or perhaps barely true more than half the time. Shouldn't that piss you off?

  10 months on Chimp
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  Teach Ack to stop looking through the trash Like a disobedient, but loyal dog, Ack in Project, a TextMate bundle, looks through lots of things in my rails project that I really don't want it to do. Here's how to make it shut up:

  11 months on Chimp
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  TM_TODO_IGNORE Yet another stupid TextMate trick that will amaze your friends.

  11 months on Chimp
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  Creating a ramdisk for PostgreSQL I was experimenting with creating a memory based schema to improve test speeds. The test didn't run any faster, but creating the ram disk was fairly easy and may prove useful in other ways.

  11 months on Chimp
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  Black Eyed Peas at Bayfest A late start, a slow beginning, but then the party got groovin. Mmm, Fergielicious. Local girls are mean drunks.

  ~1 year on Chimp
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  Thinking positively As an instructor, I've known for years that you should always instruct with a positive assertion, but as a father, sometimes, I've fallen short for lack of the "magic words." Here are a few more to add to my quiver.

  ~1 year on Chimp
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  Cool iPhone / iPod Tricks Little power user tips. Yeah, I know, someone has already written them up somewhere else, but I feel like I discovered something new.

  ~1 year on Chimp