Recent Posts

The state of Flex development

2 minute read

I’m currently working on a project which has a Flex front-end talking to a ruby on rails back-end. Someone recently asked me what I thought of Flex, and my r...

Factory pattern with syntactic sugar

1 minute read

Dan Manges has a nice write-up on why the factory pattern is better than Rails fixtures: Rails: Fixin’ Fixtures with Factory. The factory is used to create v...

Dynamically generating FlexUnit test suite

2 minute read

I have been working with Flex recently, which is a framework for building Flash applications. The standard testing framework for Flex is FlexUnit. A good exa...

Flying towards a hub

1 minute read

Most people who work for ThoughtWorks in the US travel for a living, so we spend a fair amount of time talking about travel. Lately, we have noticed a patter...

Alphabetize schema.rb columns

1 minute read

I wrote previously about automated testing of database rollback scripts in rails. After running the rollback scripts, we verify our database schema by compar...