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Either my standards have dropped since I'm developing on Linux or RubyMine has gotten a lot better in the last few months. Probably both. 7:54 AM Nov 16th from Tweetie
Another blogpost: The Point of It All -- Agile point estimates and why they should not be translated to hours: http://bit.ly/4upu3M. 7:01 AM Nov 16th from Tweetie
Blog post over the weekend on examples in technical books: http://bit.ly/43M1m1. 7:01 AM Nov 16th from Tweetie
Love the idea of combining Instapaper text filtering with the Stanza ePub interface. Hoping I can smooth the rough edges of the workflow. 4:32 PM Nov 15th from Tweetie
@ethangunderson Like cookbook recipes -- wait, I know a book that uses that as a cheesy example... 8:30 AM Nov 14th from Tweetie in reply to ethangunderson
Some occasionally coherent thoughts about using examples in programming books: http://bit.ly/43M1m1. 9:17 PM Nov 13th from Tweetie
Google alert for my name is getting a lot more hits -- Google's changed the things so it matches "rapping". Lots of holiday themed hip-hop. 6:03 PM Nov 12th from Tweetie
@ethangunderson I've never seen that done. I think it's still more about the idea of specifying behavior rather than verifying it. 5:26 PM Nov 11th from Tweetie in reply to ethangunderson
@ethangunderson It's meant to imply that the functionality shoud exist in the future -- that the test has been written first. 4:31 PM Nov 11th from Tweetie in reply to ethangunderson
I do this all the time: 1) Open iPhone iPod app. 2) see that it's not on the play list I want, 3) mistakenly hit home button, closing app. 10:49 AM Nov 11th from Tweetie
@redsquirrel Yes, but when I start slinging around words like "catamorphism", it's time to put on the Helm of Head-Slap Defense. 8:45 AM Nov 11th from Tweetie in reply to redsquirrel
@redsquirrel If you head slap and say "catamorphism" don't you need to worry that the person you are talking to will head slap you back? 8:35 AM Nov 11th from Tweetie in reply to redsquirrel
.@blakesmith Just an Obtiva Geekfest presentation on F#. I like being reminded how much fun it is is to work through problems functionally. 5:30 PM Nov 10th from Tweetie in reply to blakesmith
I like the way functional programming makes my head hurt. 12:30 PM Nov 10th from Tweetie
Not sure whether I think that Python declaring a moratorium on language changes is a good idea: http://bit.ly/XDy7w. Fascinating, though. 6:55 AM Nov 10th from Tweetie
RT @obie: On my way to pair with @redsquirrel at Obtiva. Looking forward to seeing how they work // sorry I won't be there to say hi. 7:41 AM Nov 6th from Tweetie
@tobiasbuckell Do you think health care costs are related? 12:09 PM Nov 5th from Tweetie in reply to tobiasbuckell
@bguthrie Thanks! 8:43 AM Nov 5th from Tweetie in reply to bguthrie
@PrimoTheMonkey Does "Chess" count? 7:56 AM Nov 5th from Tweetie in reply to PrimoTheMonkey
Hoping somebody will see this in the morning: A little RSpec design question. Comments welcome. http://bit.ly/3UsJxI. 6:52 AM Nov 5th from Tweetie

Name Noel Rappin
Location Chicago IL
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Bio Noel Rappin is a Senior Consultant at Obtiva. He is the author of the forthcoming Rails Test Prescriptions, from Pragmatic.