I am about to give a new Refactotum talk at the Gateway NFJS show, this time refactoring Java code in JRuby. You can download the slides here.
Along the way the talk generalizes Bob Lee's continuous tax idea, and shows how it can be applied at a project planning level.
InfoWorld has a nice article on the opening expert panel from the Rich Web Experience. I am cited once, on a subject dear to my heart--better test automation for rich web applications. The library I mentioned is the Crosscheck Browserless Testing Framework. Check it out.
For the last two days I have been at the Rich Web Experience, speaking on JavaScript, Prototype, and Scriptaculous. The sample code for all these talks is available online at Pragmatic Forms Sample App. Enjoy!
We are happy to announce that Muness Alrubaie has joined Relevance. Muness brings 11 years of experience developing software in a variety of domains using the right tools for the job at hand. Muness builds resilient systems that can adapt to changing business needs. To that end he has been a proponent of agile practices, Ruby on Rails, Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) and tagging.
Muness contributes regularly to open source, and founded the Trac TagsPlugin. He has been active in the Ruby and Java communities through his blog, and by speaking at erubycon and OSCON. You can see Muness speak on Test Driven Development and supporting Java tools at the upcoming No Fluff Just Stuff symposium in Atlanta.
