Posted by Rob Anderton on September 14th, 2009 @ 00:10 – 6 comments
Updated on August 3rd, 2010 @ 12:20
Tagged with mac
Ok so it’s not quite Schwarzenegger but last week I terminated a twenty year relationship with Microsoft and bought a Mac. Now I just need to get hold of the Apple uniform and I’ll officially be part of the club!
After more than a year of pontification on what exactly to buy as a replacement for my ageing Dell Inspiron laptop, I finally settled on a shiny new 13” MacBook Pro and an even shinier 24” Cinema Display. So far I’m pretty chuffed with my choice.
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Posted by Rob Anderton on December 10th, 2007 @ 16:08 – 29 comments
Updated on June 10th, 2008 @ 12:15
Tagged with mac
Earlier this year I started using RSpec and loved it immediately. Testing is not the most exciting or glamorous part of software development but a behavioural driven approach really appealed to me, as did the much more readable RSpec syntax.
To get me started I bought the RSpec Basics screencast from PeepCode (which has since expanded into a 3 part series). It was a good introduction but, as is often the case in Rails-land, it left me with a case of Mac envy.
The screencast includes a section on using autotest (part of the ZenTest package) and Growl to get instant pop-up notifications when specifications pass or fail. But what about me on my trusty Dell laptop? Where are my shiny notifications?
The good news is that autotest also includes support for Snarl, a Windows alternative to Growl. Hurrah!
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