This afternoon I was spinning up a RubyFit test in FitNesse when I encountered the following: C:/lang/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fit-1.1/bin/../lib/fit/fit_server.rb:68:in `initialize’: Bad file descriptor I was baffled, because everything looked fine. Turns out there is a bug in Java. So I upgraded to the latest version (I was on 1.5.0_13 and went to 1.6.0_03) and everything was fine…
Category: General
Putting choices in an HTML Select does not mean you can’t get hacked
This afternoon I was on the phone with a customer of ours talking about various ways of testing applications. One interesting thing they said was that they didn’t have to worry as much about incorrect input coming from the web portion, since all of the results are in select drop downs, and so can’t be…
Adding Pseudo Previous/Next links on Blogger
I’ve been using Blogger for my blog for a long time. Recently, my wife joined the Blogosphere with her entry called ToddleBITS. She started off on Blogger and moved over to our own domain – a nice feature that Blogger has whereby they simply FTP over the files for the blog posts. Anyway, one thing…
Test Driven .NET Development With FitNesse shipped!
My congrats go out to Gojko on shipping his new book Test Driven .NET Development With FitNesse. I was one of the reviewers for the book, and it’s great to have a resource to point people who are interested at when they want to use FitNesse and .NET together.
Small quirk in RubyFit
If you are working with FitNesse and Ruby, you’ve no doubt run into RubyFit. Installable by gem, it’s a great way to get up and running with Ruby in FitNesse. Last week on the main FitNesse list, we found a small quirk. A poster was trying to get running with it, but was only seeing…
TDD != No Design
Happy Monday everyone! As an exercise to get us through the week, let’s do the following: Take a deep breath Put your arms in the air Exhale As you exhale, say, “I AM ALLOWED TO DO DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE WORK WHEN PRACTICING TDD!” If you aren’t able to get that out in one breath, repeat…
TDD of a WinForm app – Part 5 – Validating the account data
In our last post, we worked on allowing our user to enter new accounts – basically making our AddAccountForm usable. We were able to do that – we have a working form which our user can enter customers in to and have it populate the grid. We have two issues to address right now. The…
Happy frickin’ New Year!
Happy New year to you! This is always a great time for reflection, and I’m getting the opportunity to reflect why I enjoyed the fireworks from behind a computer monitor. We made a decision to move our sites off of TextDrive, and initially I was going to host them at the house. I have the…
Ever wonder what Ruby on Rails would look like in .NET?
ScottGu gives us an idea with the new Dynamic Data Support and, of course, the new ASP.NET MVC Framework. I always wondered how Microsoft would respond if IronRuby got Rails working, and now I know! :)
Heading up to NYC
This week has me up in NYC teaching a class. It should be a good time – I’ve never been to NYC, and especially near Christmas it should be nice. Only wish the family could come. But if you are up in the NYC area, I’d love to chat or swing by and say Hi….