Many years back I heard from somewhere that you should learn one layer above and below where you do most of your work. This was specifically for programming and implied your programming stack. For example, I do a lot of work in Ruby on Rails which is a server-side framework. What I learned then was: …
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Top 3 Server Companies I Recommend to my Clients
I got started with system administration sometime in 2004, when I first picked up a copy of Red Hat from a co-worker. I really enjoyed how Linux worked and for years always had a server or two (or six) at home to tinker on. Later on, I co-managed all of the servers for a small …
Test HTTP Basic Authentication in Rails 3 With Capybara
I’m using some HTTP basic authentication in Chirk HR as a simple way of preventing unauthorized access. It’s simple, fast, and easy to change to a more robust authentication later on. Ideal Authentication Test As part of my testing habits, I try to really exercise important methods. Authentication is definitely one of them. Authentication is …
What I’m excited about with ChiliProject 3.0.0
On February 6th ChiliProject 3.0.0 was released. This marks the third major release for ChiliProject and the stabilization of the past 6 months of development. The 3.0 series is my favorite release so far. It finally brings in some features that I’ve been wanting to use for at least 4 years. The full release details …
Run rake tasks in emacs with rinari
I use emacs and rinari when I’m working on ChiliProject. I learned from reading Continuous Testing is that I should be able to run all of my tests with a single key command in an IDE. Unfortunately, ChiliProject’s full test suite takes about 20 minutes to run on my desktop (a whole different problem I’ll be …