So Jason Seifer and Gregg Pollack have turned their podcasting talents towards making screencasts. They call them envycasts. I’m a regular listener of the podcast and enjoy their lighthearted style so when Gregg was looking for reviewers of their latested episode, I jumped at the chance. I’m not going to cover all the Rails goodness present [...]

Very interesting article over at Stephano’s blog. Worth a read, and then another. Packed with links to useful tools too.

Brad at 30sleeps writes about Death by a Thousand Service Packs. Well said, Brad and let us know what your itch is.

Over at the Start Up Manager Brian wrote: So how can such a noble endeavor go wrong? There are lots of reasons, but the most challenging to control is the effect that occurs when the QA department sits in the shadow of Development. There is sometime a perception that the QA engineers are inferior technically to the [...]

There’s an emphasis in the Rails community on testing as you write your code. So much so that the built in code generators will generate unit tests right alongside your models. You can even generate integration tests too. So here we are, merrily generating models, controllers and more. We’re writing code, writing tests and even running [...]

Just finished reading a whitepaper on Web Based Session Management, worth a read. It lists the advantages and disadvantages of the three main forms of session management and common attacks. Go forth and read!