In case you missed it #28

  • CodePlex: Go Away is an article by Josh Berkus - CEO of Postgres Experts - where the hidden details of the intent behind CodePlex are reveled.
  • let it be @-less, David Chelimsky blogs about a new feature in Rspec that allows us to dry up common setup code from several examples, without using the dreaded @instance variable method. It introduces the let method which receives a symbol (replacing the @instance var) and a block which gets cached in the variable itself, for all future specs that use it.
  • Cucumber now has a PDF Formatter to share with customers and other project stakeholders.
  • Ultimate IE6 cheatsheet shows fixes to many common issues with IE6 and how to fix them. A great resource for when you're stuck supporting the arcane browser.
  • We already heard Engine Yard's side of the story, but here's why Github is moving to Rackspace, in their own words.
  • Pandora command line client. Interesting.
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