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ChocTop - packaging and deployment of Cocoa applications

over 3 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
I’m getting close to releasing a new Cocoa application, CommitChat, a sexy interface to having conversations for each commit in each watched project in...

Need Rails Developers? Hire Australians

over 3 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
There’s been some malarky very recently about “how do I find a lot of mature, awesome Rails developers?” (rails-business + #rmm) I think this is the...

RailsCamp.au #5 - book now

~3 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Imagine yourself and a posse of like-minded Ruby hackers on a country retreat with zero internet for a weekend of fun. You’ll laugh, hack, learn, cry...

Testing outbound emails with Cucumber

~3 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
My testimonial for Cucumber still stands even in 2009. In fact I promise to let you know when I don’t think Cucumber is the bees-knees of integration...

Closing in on The Dream: “one-click-to-deploy Rails apps”

~3 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Got a simple app you want to build? Allocate 5 minutes for initial code generation, slice setup, and initial deployment. All from the command line. In one...

Easy scheduling by location, tasks and people - a case study of a client application from Mocra

~3 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Several years ago Andy Wright uncovered a problem. Small and large businesses can have the same problem: orchestrating to get a qualified person to perform...

Cucumber: building a better World (object)

~3 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
How to write helper libraries for your Cucumber step definitions and how to upgrade your support libraries from Cucumber 0.2 to 0.3 (released today). In...

TDD for Greasemonkey scripts; and introducing Ninja Search JS

almost 3 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
“this article shows how I used test-driven development tools and processes on a Greasemonkey script.” Though it also includes free ninjas. When I do...

Refer us a client for fun and profit

almost 3 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
There’s only so many hours in the day and only so many technologies people can be awesome at. So sometimes there are projects that developers can’t...

Nifty Threaded IM Chat within Gtalk/Gmail Chat

almost 3 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Ever had IM chats where a conversation splits into multiple topics? You’ll be able to follow along, intelligently piecing together which-message-goes-with-which-topic...