Reflections on code, the things I read and what I've been up to.
Calatrava has a reasonably complex build system to enforce its opinions. One of these opinions is that the environment you’re building for should be configurable. You set the environment by...
Read ArticleThere’s a new release of Calatrava available: v0.6.0. Update it the way you’d update any of your other gems.
Read ArticleBuilding a Calatrava app means writing a lot of CoffeeScript. Here’s a small tip to make that CoffeeScript read even better than it already does. When you’re writing a function...
Read Article[ph]: http://blog.thepete.net/ [tw]: http://join.thoughtworks.com/ [c]: http://calatrava.github.com/ [jasmine]: http://pivotal.github.com/jasmine/ [cjs]: https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-js [cuke]: http://cukes.info/ [wd]: http://seleniumhq.org/projects/webdriver/ [cgh]: http://github.com/calatrava/calatrava
Read ArticleIn April of 2011 I moved from Sydney to Chicago — to be closer to my girlfriend of the time, Suzi Edwards. In the last 17 months I’ve lived in...
Read ArticleApple’s iOS 6 was released last Friday, and unfortunately for Apple the biggest news is ‘Mapgate’. And there really are plenty of examples of pretty crazy mapping to be found....
Read ArticleLast weekend I upgraded my Mac to OS X Mountain Lion. Everything went pretty smoothly. I had to re-install Java, but that happened automatically when I first tried to run...
Read ArticleA repeated question I’ve had about my article on mobile strategy is what I meant in my off-hand comment about arranging ‘Y’ shaped feature teams. Clearly, it needs a little...
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