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Rails Integration Testing with Omniauth and CanCan
Implementing CanCan and Omniauth with multi-authorization support and integration testing proved to me to be somewhat challenging. For the most part, I think the challenges reflect my lack of sophistication with Rails development, but there were a reasonable number of…
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Test Driven Development and COTS
COTS is traditionally taken to mean Commercial Off The Shelf. However, I’ve also heard it referred to Configurable Off The Shelf. This latter term more accurately describes a large class of systems implemented in business environments today. The package can largely…
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Old Habits
I have written recently about my discovery of testing when developing code, and of test driven development. At the time, I was amazed at how well it revealed unused code as well as bugs in the code that is being…
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The Advantages of Being Too Big to Fail
The Wall Street Journal’s CIO Report tells us that SAP has finally accepted that their software has usability problems. While it is laudable that they have finally realized the problem, and equally laudable that they have decided to fix the…
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A fuzzy thing happened to me on my way to the cloud
If you’re at all involved with IT, you know that every other article you see these days seems to have something to do with cloud computing. Increasingly, these discussions are turning to the world of science. However, there is one…
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I Have Seen the Light
At one point in an Orthodox Divine Liturgy, a hymn is chanted which starts with the phrase, “We have seen the true light…” While not of similar religious significance, occasionally programmers can have epiphanies that lead us to at least…
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The Wilting of appFlower
I thought it would be useful to provide at least a brief postscript to the appFlower evaluation. We opted to leave it behind for most of the reasons I stated (in addition, when I wrote that post I had just…
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That Blooming appFlower
Sorry, the best humorous line I could think of on short notice. I’m working on developing an application for managing requirements and RFPs/RFIs for LIMS acquisition projects, and as part of that, I was asked to take a look at…
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The Autodidact
The other day I had a individual request some pointers on where to go to learn about a topic that was ancillary to a project she would be working on. The question arose as to whether there was real value…
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A Core Issue
The Wall Street Journal this week, published a piece about the impact of “bad apples,” or toxic, lazy, or incompetent employees on the work place. It makes sense that a bad employee affects an organization more than a good employee.…