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Stevenotes

Leave a Comment Posted by noelrap on October 6, 2011

I wasn’t going to write this, because it’s not like the Internet has a dearth of people writing about Steve Jobs who never knew him or interacted with him in any way. I wrote it anyway. I’ve watched the first few minutes of the keynote introducing the iPhone several times. It amazes me – both [...]

Apple

August 4, 2010: A couple of useful things

Leave a Comment Posted by noelrap on August 4, 2010

Book Satus Still patching the Shoulda chapter together. Realized yesterday that Machinist is in the middle of a version 2 upgrade, which, along with some factory_girl changes probably means I have some tweaking to do in that chapter. I haven’t run the buy links in a while. You can get the beta ebook and pre-order [...]

Apple, rvm, Safari, WindyCityRails

July 21, 2010: This Code Belongs In A Museum

Leave a Comment Posted by noelrap on July 21, 2010

Status Not much to tell, really. Spent some time getting RVM set up, since I think I’ll need it to manage simultaneously building the Rails 2 and Rails 3. Now I have a working version of the startup appendix that uses Rails 3 and Devise. I can’t speak to using Devise in practice yet, but [...]

Apple, iPad, Rails, Ruby

July 15, 2010: An Apple Comment A Day

Leave a Comment Posted by noelrap on July 15, 2010

Book status Still writing the legacy chapter. Totally coincidentally, Michael Feathers, author of Working Effectively With Legacy Code, just wrote on an issue similar to what I’m dealing with right now: The Bad Code Kata. I imagine Feathers had a similar problem when writing his book about legacy code. An Apple Comment A Day So [...]

Apple, Ruby

July 7, 2010: Dylan Goes Electric (Probably Not True)

Leave a Comment Posted by noelrap on July 7, 2010

Book Status Beta 4 should be available this week, or at the latest Monday, apparently we’re working around people’s vacation schedules. It will have two new chapters, and some error fixes and tweaks around the book. Next is on to Beta 5. In status news that shouldn’t interest you much, the end of the quarter [...]

Alan Kay, Apple, Kent Beck, RSpec, Ruby Tracker, RubyMine

Apple Intern: 1995

1 Comment Posted by noelrap on June 23, 2010

It’s kind of hard for me to believe that it’s fifteen years ago this week that I reported for my three-month internship deep in the research department at Apple Computer, down in One Infinite Loop. It was 1995, and it’s beyond understatement to say that Apple was a totally different place then. (I just read [...]

Apple

June 2, 2010: How To Test Good

1 Comment Posted by noelrap on June 2, 2010

Yesterday… Gave my talk at Chicago Ruby. The video is already online — yay Chicago Ruby team. I was pleased with it, actually, I did pretty much what I hoped to do, except that I thought the repetition joke would get a bigger laugh. In other news Yehuda Katz posted slides on another Rails 3 [...]

Apple, Chicago Ruby, Me talking, node, Rails 3, Yehuda

May 13, 2010: The Rules of Agile Estimation

1 Comment Posted by noelrap on May 13, 2010

Top Story JRuby 1.5 is out. Highlights include improved Rails 3 support, better support for Windows, better FFI support, better startup time (yay!) and a lot of other tweaks and fixes. Book Update Still Cucumbering, hope to finish today. The book is still on sale, of course. And I’d still love to see more comments [...]

Agile, Apple, Estimates, iPad, JRuby, Kent Beck, Newton, Potterverse, RailsConf

April 16, 2010: The cover is uncovered, at least for me…

Leave a Comment Posted by noelrap on April 16, 2010

Top Story and Book Update I have sample cover designs. I don’t think I can show them yet, but I’ve got ‘em, I like them, and hopefully we’ll have picked one to show shortly. Tab dump Not a whole lot today: Here’s a look at the current status of using a non-blocking MySQL driver with [...]

Apple, EdTech, Joss Whedon, Rails, RailsRx, Smalltalk, standup

April 13, 2010: iAd, youAd, weAll Ad

Leave a Comment Posted by noelrap on April 13, 2010

Top Story iPads. Lots of them popping up in and around work. Probably some more coherent impressions coming later. Wait, once again, Twitter has a big announcement after I start writing this. This time, they are going to start placing ads in the Twitter stream in various ways to be announced today. My quick reactions: [...]

Agile, Apple, Bundler, iPad, JRuby, Ruby, standup, Yehuda

Rails Rx Standup: April 12, 2010

Leave a Comment Posted by noelrap on April 12, 2010

Top Story For a while, it looked like the top story was going to be Apple’s new developer Rule 3.3.1, described here by John Gruber. More on that in a second. But the real top story is the news that Twitter has bought Tweetie, intending to rebrand it as Twitter for iPhone, and dropping the [...]

Agile, Apple, Git, RSpec, standup, testing, This American Life, Twitter

Rails Rx Standup: April 9, 2010

1 Comment Posted by noelrap on April 9, 2010

Book Update Not much to report. Still messing with the integration test chapter. Also still waiting for cover possibilities. Tab Dump Continuing the RailsEnvy story from yesterday, today Jason Seifer posts some more details. This essay is more personal. I wish Jason nothing but good things. In a somewhat ironic counterpoint to Gregg and Jason [...]

Apple, standup

Everybody’s doing it: Bullet Points and the iPad

Leave a Comment Posted by noelrap on January 31, 2010

iPad, iPad, iPad. Five Random Thoughts Given that Apple’s business model for most of the past 30 years has been not to compete on feature lists, but rather to pare down features in the name of user experience, that a tech analyst would at least pause before proclaiming the iPad to be a failure because [...]

Apple, Bullet Points, iPad