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I'm Michael Koby, and I love technology. I'm also a programmer, currently doing Ruby on Rails development for a small Houston startup. Here I talk about technology, programming, politics, movies, music, and anything else I feel I need to talk about. If you would like to know more, you can check out the About page.Popular Series
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Monthly Archives: January 2011
Thinking of Starting a Web Business, You Can Do It
Do you say something like “Man it would be great is someone would create a site that does [fill in the blank]” a lot? Do you find yourself coming up with great ideas only to forget them a couple of hours later? Have you ever told an idea to your friends, have them tell you it’s horrible, only to see the exact product a year later released by someone else?
Well, do something about it. Continue reading
Vim, RubyTest, & RSpec
If you use the Vim editor (or one of it’s counterparts like gVim), use the RubyTest Vim Plugin, and you use RSpec for some of your testing then you might run into a problem that I was experiencing where it … Continue reading
Testing in Rails, It’s Important
Over the course of 2010 I spent most of my off time working on my side project, Just for Bands. Specifically the first application to come from Just for Bands known as LiveShow. The LiveShow application was written in Ruby on Rails with the plan to deploy it to Heroku (a successful plan I might add). But the main point of this post is the idea of doing Test Driven Development (or TDD) in Ruby on Rails and how it allowed my partner and I to build an app quickly. Continue reading
Posted in Just for Bands, programming
Tagged ruby on rails, testing
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Testing in Rails, It's Important
Over the course of 2010 I spent most of my off time working on my side project, Just for Bands. Specifically the first application to come from Just for Bands known as LiveShow. The LiveShow application was written in Ruby on Rails with the plan to deploy it to Heroku (a successful plan I might add). But the main point of this post is the idea of doing Test Driven Development (or TDD) in Ruby on Rails and how it allowed my partner and I to build an app quickly. Continue reading
Posted in Just for Bands, programming
Tagged ruby on rails, testing
Comments Off on Testing in Rails, It's Important
Ship It
With the launch of LiveShow by Just for Bands last week, the stress of getting something done and pushed for public consumption is only half done. Having actually “shipped” a working product, I understand that it is the larger (and harder) half. Continue reading
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LiveShow Ships
Yep, today my partner Erick and I announced that LiveShow, the first Just for Bands app was ready for the world’s viewing. It took a year’s worth of programming time at home after work and on weekends, learning a new programming language, learning a new web framework for writing web applications, designing a data model, and figuring out where the app should live. But, it’s officially shipped as of today around 1:30pm. Continue reading
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