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

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.

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?

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:

Yet another stupid TextMate trick that will amaze your friends.

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.

A late start, a slow beginning, but then the party got groovin. Mmm, Fergielicious. Local girls are mean drunks.

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.

Little power user tips. Yeah, I know, someone has already written them up somewhere else, but I feel like I discovered something new.