Meme Washer

• NCP08083B.pdf (application/pdf Object)
  (tags: paper chaos mud technology entropy)
• ITComplexityWhitePaper.pdf (application/pdf Object)
  Expert Pegs Yearly Cost of IT Failure At $6.2 Trillion
  (tags: paper complexity cost via:slashdot.org fail failz failz0rz mud)

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• Topic Branches - rspec - GitHub
  (tags: github git topic branches branching vc)
• Is Ruby pass by reference or by value? - Stack Overflow
  "As for pass-by-value, it's not really compatible with pure OO, where "values" don't exist except as object state. The closest you could get is something like Objective-C's bycopy type modifier that tells the runtime to make a copy behind the scenes. That does sound useful. " – Chuck
  (tags: ruby programming function arguments parameters oo reference value)
• pass by reference or pass by value - Ruby Forum
  "Ruby only has objects, so pass by 'value' is nonsensical, there are only references. Consequently Ruby has no 'simple' types.

  However, watch for methods that return new object. int + int returns
  a new int, it doesn't modify the value of the old int. That's the
  difference between string.gsub and string.gsub! - the latter modifies
  the object, the former returns a new string. This pattern is followed
  in many of the Ruby libraries.
  "
  --
  Phillip Hutchings

  
  
  (tags: ruby reference value arguments parameters function programming)
  
  

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• Nokogiri: Ensuring Well-Formed Markup
  Nokogiri document objects have an errors() method that keeps track of parsing errors. "Thus, you could use errors.empty? to determine whether the document was well-formed."
  (tags: nokogiri html xml markup soup tagsoup tag spaghetti mud code errors validation validator bigballofmud parse parser xhtml scraping)
• The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Downloads for The RSpec Book
  "You can always come back here and download your eBook in any number of the formats available for this title."
  (tags: rspec book download cucumber)

Posted by Noah Sussman at 11:01 PM | Permalink

• gist: 261465 - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.5.1/lib/cucumber/formatter/html.rb- GitHub
  (tags: cucumber example format formatter html custom template boilerplate standards best.practices)
• Custom Formatters - cucumber - GitHub
  (tags: cucumber format formatters output reporting notification)
• Spork and --drb - cucumber - GitHub
  (tags: cucumber spork rails)
• gist: 261424 - Cucumber Cheatsheet - GitHub
  working on my own cucumber cheatsheet
  (tags: cucumber cheatsheet cheat mine noahsussman)
• God is a world-brain in 'Avatar.' Would you have faith? - Faith & Reason
  (tags: avatar movies fun jamescameron cameron computer graphics religion via:newsmap.jp)
• Calling Steps from Step Definitions - cucumber - GitHub
  (tags: cucumber meta programming programmatic steps call calling iteration tables)
• A Whole New World - cucumber - GitHub
  (tags: cucumber helper)
• Dr Nic ’s Cucumber: building a better World (object)
  (tags: cucumber helper)

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• Error using 'gem install' how do you reset path? - comp.lang.ruby | Google Groups
  I ran into this on Cygwin.  But it went away when I used the Cygwin shell rather than the DOS prompt.  In the Cygwin shell I could install gems without problems.
  (tags: cygwin ruby windows mechanize gem rubygems)
• Nokogiri: A Faster, Better HTML and XML Parser for Ruby (than Hpricot)
  (tags: nokogiri hpricot xml html parser scraping tools 2008 best.practices ruby _why)
• File: EXAMPLES.rdoc [mechanize-0.9.3 Documentation]
  (tags: ruby mechanize parser browser nokogiri scraping howto examples learning beginner testing screenscraping)
• File: GUIDE.rdoc [mechanize-0.9.3 Documentation]
  "Mechanize uses nokogiri to parse html. What does this mean for you? You can treat a mechanize page like an nokogiri object. After you have used Mechanize to navigate to the page that you need to scrape, then scrape it using nokogiri methods"
  (tags: mechanize nokogiri ruby scraping html parser DOM tools testing browser robot user agent)

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• Dr. Dobb's | Selenium: Cross-browser Website Testing | December 17, 2009
  (tags: selenium *read)

Posted by Noah Sussman at 11:01 PM | Permalink

• Planet Mozilla Education
  (tags: edtech mozilla *read opensource free foss software)
• nookDevs
  (tags: *read nook hacks hacking hardware wiki howto ebooks)
• FFFFOUND! | M O O D
  (tags: cats)
• SVN Document - Content Tools Wiki
  (tags: client:bn)
• Knuth: Computer Programming as an Art
  (tags: programming philosophy methodology art science computer knuth via:news.ycombinator.com paper)

Posted by Noah Sussman at 11:02 PM | Permalink

• Anki - a friendly, intelligent spaced learning system
  (tags: anki dashboard mine)

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• DanNorth.net » What’s in a Story?
  On user stories
  (tags: stories story tdd cucumber architecture testing software)
• Factoring out cucumber-core? - Cukes | Google Groups
  (tags: cucumber)
• Using Cucumber as a scripting language
  (tags: cucumber sysadmin)
• Martin Englund's Weblog
  (tags: cucumber testing sysadmin functional)
• InfoQ: Interview With Aslak Hellesøy on Cucumber For .NET
  (tags: cucumber dotnet c# fit fitnesse gherkin specflow ruby testing software qa)
• examples/WatiN/Google/StepDefinitions/SearchSteps.cs at master from richardlawrence's Cuke4Nuke - GitHub
  watin step definitions for cucumber/cuke4nuke
  (tags: nunit watir watin functional browser web testing qa automation cucumber cuke4nuke)
• WatiN Home
  Web Application Testing in NUnit
  (tags: nunit watir watin functional browser web testing qa automation c#)
• Documentation - selenium - Details of the official Selenium documentation - Project Hosting on Google Code
  How to contribute to the Selenium project.
  (tags: selenium documentation wiki howto learning beginner svn testing tdd browser javascript java)
• All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency.
  (tags: *read)

Posted by Noah Sussman at 11:11 PM | Permalink

• New computer software makes studying easier by carefully timing reviews | Fort Frances Times Online
  intro to using Anki flash cards. Also explains the SRS memorization system, which is pretty cool!
  (tags: anki srs cool mind hacks memorization learning autodidact)
• Anki - friendly, intelligent flashcards
  Reviewing flash cards with Anki (video)
  (tags: anki srs)
• Anki Teaches Text, Audio, or Images Through Repetition - Downloads - Lifehacker
  (tags: anki srs)

Posted by Noah Sussman at 11:01 PM | Permalink

• Cucumber: Step Argument Transforms | Engine Yard Blog
  (tags: cucumber data productivity tips)
• Step Argument Transforms - cucumber - GitHub
  syntactic sugar for lookup tables
  (tags: cucumber data transform tricks tips productivity)
• Home - Cuke4Nuke - GitHub
  (tags: cucumber dotnet c#)
• Multiline Step Arguments - cucumber - GitHub
  (tags: cucumber ruby data syntax)
• commitmonitor - Project Hosting on Google Code
  (tags: snarl svn growl notification windows)

Posted by Noah Sussman at 11:02 PM | Permalink

• UCSD: Global Information Industry Center
  its the data
  (tags: data *read paper pdf culture intelligence mind people anthropology study statistical.data)
• The Good, the Bad, and the DOM
  (tags: html w3 dom *read)
• My DebugBar | IETester / Browser Compatibility Check for Internet Explorer Versions from 5.5 to 8
  (tags: ie debugger toolbar web developer)
• svnnotifier.tigris.org
  (tags: svn notification tools communication collaboration groupware)
• Designing programs with RSpec and Cucumber (plus a book recomendation)
  (tags: cucumber)
• Outside-in Development with Cucumber and Rspec
  (tags: cucumber rspec step example slides)
• $ cheat cucumber
  (tags: cucumber cheatsheet)
• Cucumber: More Advanced | Engine Yard Blog
  (tags: cucumber)

Posted by Noah Sussman at 11:02 PM | Permalink

• Official Google Blog: Faster apps for a faster web: introducing Speed Tracer
  (tags: *read google tools debugging web javascript optimization performance via:benstraw)
• Top Down Operator Precedence
  (tags: javascript jslint crockford parser paper code architecture example explanation)

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• All you need is <!doctype html> - David’s Web Development Blog
  (tags: doctype html5 standards quirksmode code style web html)
• Your First Look at Nook: The Technologizer Review | Technologizer
  (tags: nook review *read)

Posted by Noah Sussman at 11:02 PM | Permalink

• Yahoo Issues Takedown Notice for Spying Price List | Threat Level | Wired.com
  How Yahoo! stores and sells your personal data. Fascinating stuff.
  (tags: internet privacy surveillance government yahoo 2009 security via:slashdot.org via:2600.com web data culture)
• YouTube - African Harp and Thumb Piano Ensemble
  (tags: thumbpiano music fun)
• Knuth: Literate Programming
  (tags: software methodology books *read)
• Uncaught Exception: Permission denied to call method to Location.toString
  (tags: debugging firefox error problem permissions denied javascript selenium flash bug broken annoying firebug messages grr)
• Coding Practices - OmniNerd
  "I should explain that clever is not always a good thing in programming. A clever solution often solves a problem in a manner that no one has before utilized. Sometimes a clever solution will get the job done in fewer lines (sometimes referred to as elegance) than another less clever solution. Many times, clever programmers fail to properly comment clever solutions, making them impossible to figure out unless you know the original programmer or spend some quality time with the code and a debugger."
  (tags: vi vim debugging *read self-documenting systems methodology software via:slashdot.org code style writing guide complexity clever tricks nasa via:slashshdot.org programming learning conventions maintenance c)

Posted by Noah Sussman at 11:02 PM | Permalink

• Permissions Denied to get Property location.toString in FireFox 3 - Rick Strahl's Web Log
  (tags: firefox selenium permissions bug permission denied error explanation *read)
• Developing Tests - MDC
  (tags: *read mozilla testing howto learning automation software management)
• Testing ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Web Developer - ScottGu's Blog
  (tags: *read microsoft ms software testing c# dotnet qa management)

Posted by Noah Sussman at 11:01 PM | Permalink

• Do you know why I'm getting "Permission denied to get property Window.document" errors?
  (tags: selenium bug javascript permissions)
• Official Google Blog: Now you see it, now you don't
  (tags: google ux ui homepage via:benstraw animation web search)
• Will HTML 5 validation be worth the candle? - Stack Overflow
  (tags: html html5 validation code syntax whatwg w3 politics explanation basic)
• HTML 4 Deprecated Features
  (tags: deprecated html html4 code validation standards good)

Posted by Noah Sussman at 11:02 PM | Permalink

• Pragmatic Progressive Enhancement
  (tags: validation hijax progressive enhancement web standards basic explanation webstandards)
• Envjs
  (tags: client:bn javascript server rhino testing)

Posted by Noah Sussman at 11:02 PM | Permalink

• Anki - friendly, intelligent flashcards
  (tags: language learning srs flashcards flashcard study elearning performance memory vocabulary)
• Metadata
  (tags: paper software architecture methodology)
• Bret Stephens: Climategate: Follow the Money - WSJ.com
  (tags: cru via:newsmap.jp)
• The Great and Powerful Climate Oz - WSJ.com
  (tags: cru)
• /var/log/rant
  (tags: *read via:nerdabout.com)

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