Ardekantur

Computer Science, Ruby, and Software Engineering.

Category: Software Design

Should Canticore Have a Web-based Editor? and Other Thoughts

So my school term is coming to a close very soon, and I’ll be able to get a little bit more work done on Canticore, which I’ve decided is one of my important projects that deserves my attention. I’ll be happy if I can add 50% more tests to the existing functionality, add a couple [...]

Canticore has Filters! Making Markdown Work for Us

I was going to create a new repo on GitHub to show off this awesomeness, but then I figured, why not just show everyone how to use the new filter functionality?

Minus all the cruft of being a gem, this is the only code you’ll write to create a Markdown plugin for your Canticore blog.

require ‘canticore/plugin’ require [...]

My Adventures with Entity Framework and Oracle

I struggle to understand the Entity Framework, and struggle even more to force it to make sense with Oracle.

Tasko/TaskPaper + Ruby = Awesome

I introduce my pet project, Taskomaly, to the world. Using Ruby to synchronize your to-do lists with online APIs is useful and fun!

“TDD”.reverse

When TDD might not be the best philosophy, and when it might be better to start testing in medias res, as it were.