Monthly Archives: July 2006

Ruby Locale 0.1

Posted on July 28, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

I wanted a ruby version of the Java Locale object and couldn’t find one, so i created a project for it. Here’s the address: http://rubyforge.org/projects/locale/ It is pretty minimal, but it does contain all the current ISO country and language … Continue reading →

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Alderman Tunney is kinda an idiot

Posted on July 26, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

Funny story. Last night I had a sangria craving and so Kenz, Eliot and I went out to buy brandy and some fruit. We noticed that our brand new sidewalks were complete. Our old sidewalk had a HUGE 2′ envraving … Continue reading →

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My interview with Ed Yourdon

Posted on July 24, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

I had a great interview with Ed Yourdon last week. Ed has put together a summary of our conversation on his blog. I’ve also put a post together to respond to the experience Ed had with his Naymz Google ad. … Continue reading →

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Making jEdit like IntelliJ

Posted on July 21, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

First download JDK 1.6 and use that to run jEdit. I also add this tweak to the command line: -Dsun.java2d.opengl=true Also, remove the -server option. No clue if that is gonna help at all in JDK 1.6, but things are … Continue reading →

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TDD and Agile pondering

Posted on July 10, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

I read an old blog entry by Cedric Beust about agile and test driven development (TDD) and I started thinking about some of his points. I agree that tests are not the specification for an application. They are tests. Seems … Continue reading →

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