Monthly Archives: June 2010

how to work with git local branches

By etagwerker | Published: June 25, 2010

Compared to SVN and CVS, I think the best thing about Git is Github. It’s awesome how you can see the history of your source code.

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getting started with Cucumber and Webrat on Rails

By etagwerker | Published: June 17, 2010

A couple of months ago I started using Cucumber in one of my projects. I think it’s a great tool for large projects. It makes it easier for developers joining the project and it gives the development team a lot of confidence when changing the code. If you have a running set of tests, you [...]

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please stop overdesigning!

By etagwerker | Published: June 11, 2010

Keep it simple, stupid. Or keep it simple stupid. Or keep it simple and straightforward.

But please, do it for other programmers. Do it for yourself. For your own sanity. Stop overdesigning and ‘designing for the future.’ Stop designing for ‘what may happen in the future.’

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