jonezy.org » open source http://www.jonezy.org/blog me and you and everyone we know Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:58:06 +0000 en hourly 1 Spread Firefox! http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2008/06/16/spread-firefox/#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:04:22 +0000 jonezy http://www.jonezy.org/blog/?p=128 Tomorrow, the Mozilla foundation is releasing the latest version of the Firefox browser. While they are at it they are also trying to set a record for the most software downloads in a 24 hour period. If you aren’t using Firefox tomorrow would be a great time to try it, it really is one of (if not the) best browsers you can use.

Spread Firefox

]]> http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2008/06/16/spread-firefox/feed/ 0 jonezy.org.BackpackAPI http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2008/05/27/jonezyorgbackpackapi/#comments Wed, 28 May 2008 02:03:50 +0000 jonezy http://www.jonezy.org/blog/?p=122 Is the reason why I haven’t been posting here, I’m working on building a c# wrapper for the 37 Signals Backpack API. Nothing terribly exciting yet (I’m basically just implementing the services per the api docs). I’m hosting this at Google Code and this will be an open source project. I’m also taking the time to try out doing Test Driven Development. I’m pretty happy with how that’s going so far, but it’s a new process for me so it’s taking some time (though I’m happy to report i have 33 tests for 13 implemented methods!)

Future plans include (some might happen, all might never happen)

  • an offline version of backpack
  • a to-do list application that is driven by backpack lists
  • a WPF client for doing various backpack things (reminders, journal and status updates)
  • update status on multiple targets (backpack journal / status, twitter, pownce etc)

If you are interested in this at all please have a look at the code and let me know if you are interested in using it or contributing. Oh and any / all feedback is great too.

]]> http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2008/05/27/jonezyorgbackpackapi/feed/ 2 web application testing in ruby http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2006/10/04/web-application-testing-in-ruby/#comments Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:04:39 +0000 jonezy http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2006/10/04/web-application-testing-in-ruby/ i have been looking for an excuse to try writing some ruby code for a while now and I just stumbled on Watir (web application testing in ruby) which seems to be a pretty good place to start.  I can apply it to work related tasks (automate some of the more boring and repetitive tasks associated with testing) and it seems like it is pretty simple syntaxically which is always good for a beginner.

]]> http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2006/10/04/web-application-testing-in-ruby/feed/ 0 other opinions about the joel vs dhh debate http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2006/09/04/other-opinions-about-the-joel-vs-dhh-debate/#comments Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:34:37 +0000 jonezy http://www.jonezy.org/blog/?p=53 When Did High Tech Become High School?

Typical

Enterprise Impasse

Svec on Joel on Software on Language Wars

]]> http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2006/09/04/other-opinions-about-the-joel-vs-dhh-debate/feed/ 4 open source website(s) http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2006/07/21/open-source-websites/#comments Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:47:15 +0000 jonezy http://www.jonezy.org/blog/?p=29 Waferbaby has just gone open source

I have been reading the site for a bunch of years and did spend a period of time in touch with the guy that runs the site (which is pretty hard when you are in canada and they are in australia).

It’s a really cool idea to give back to the community and I wonder what kind of stuff will crop up that uses this code as a base.

Though honestly it makes me feel a bit inadequate not being able to do something like this myself.

]]> http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2006/07/21/open-source-websites/feed/ 3 FYI http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2006/06/28/fyi/#comments Thu, 29 Jun 2006 02:40:03 +0000 jonezy http://www.jonezy.org/blog/?p=19 Vanilla 1.0 will be out soon… go and get it!

also i have an install of it running at http://jonezy.org/vanilla/ if you wanna have a look

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