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Friday, March 16th, 2007

Using SQL Server Files for Unit Testing in VS2005 TS

One of the nice features of VSTS is data-driven testing. It’s as easy as hooking up a couple of attributes to the test classes, which then allows tests to be run for multiple sets of input data. The problem is when you want to include data with the test project.

(a solution follows)

Using capistrano to manage EC2 instances (amazon.com’s “virtual computing environment”). The comments also have some interesting discussion about the considerations made in choosing to use Amazon’s services for a startup. See also: Building a Web Application with Ruby on Rails and Amazon S3.
Dare Obasanjo pondering the future of Amazon’s S3 & EC2 services:

What I suspect is that without some catalyst (e.g. the next YouTube is built on S3 + EC2)these services will not reach their full potential. This would be unfortunate because I think in much the same way we moved from everyone rolling their own software to shrinkwrapped software, we will need to move to shrinkwrapped Web platforms in the future instead of everyone running their own ad-hoc cluster of Windows or LAMP servers and solving the same problems that others have solved thousands of times already.

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My first RoR project: Freevite

Monday, March 12th, 2007

The “real world” project I’ve come up with to learn Ruby on Rails will be ‘Freevite’ - an online event coordination application. A quick google turned up this project announcement (using perl no less), but it doesn’t appear anything became of it. I expect to make a lot of mistakes on the way, but I expect this to be an application I will use and therefore (hopefully) improve.

The design should be straightforward enough in its first incarnation, and I expect most of my initial learning will be finding the best way for me to develop the application on a hosted server account. The first (only) RoR tuturial I walked through, I did using vi over a SSH terminal. I expect that will get real old, real fast.

Next Step: Find development & deployment tool(s)

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