We just had some customers report a bug. Not good. We didn’t get an exception email. All the tests passed. We couldn’t see anything untoward in the log files. But it was there. We could reproduce it, both in staging and in production. Not good at all.
But the weirdest thing was we couldn’t [...]

A project I’ve been working on was recently moved up to Rails 2.2 (Rails 2.3 migration coming soon, but we wanted to take things one step at a time).
All the tests passed. Poking it on the staging server worked well. On to production and all was good.
Time passed. [...]

A conversation between me and my (14 year old) daughter:
Me: Are any of your friends “into” computers? You know, writing stuff, making websites, coding?
Daughter: I think [girl's name] is. She does layouts and codes for web stuff.
Me: Really? Interesting. But just her then?
Daughter: Yeah.
Me: So why [...]

Tomorrow I’m actually going to do it.
I’m going to change the tools that I use to code in Ruby for the first time in four years. You see, I must be one of the very very few Ruby-programming Mac-users that doesn’t like Textmate.
This is pretty much heresy to most Rubyists. [...]

I’m sure you’ve all heard the Rails 3 announcement. When I first found out my initial reaction was “fuck me“. But shortly after I was filled with a feeling of dread and general unease. And I didn’t know why ….
Firstly, a bit of history.
I first tried programming on a Commodore [...]

I’ve recently been updating some old code – partly written by someone else, partly written by myself. At the time, I thought I had written this code really well; looking back on it now, it looks awful. Fair enough, I’ve learnt a lot – I want to look back on old code and [...]

I’ve written up a new post at the Brightbox blog detailing how we are using RSpec and Cucumber to build acceptance tests for the next generation Brightbox systems.

I’ve done a quick write-up on the recent CSRF vulnerability on the Brightbox blog.

What the fuck is this?
Merb is launched and DHH suddenly has a load of “Rails Myths” posts up on his blog. Like this sly little dig:

it shows the great power of being an full-stack framework

Wycats responds with a slightly less sly dig:

For the moment, these differences are the reason that [...]