Driving design: adding a touch of our domain to our APIs

Posted on 21. Jan, 2011 by Guilherme Silveira.

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In this second screencast from the Driving Design series, the amazingly simple form gem is shown along with a simple DSL implementation. Its current API uses a fluent interface through Ruby hashes that allows easy output customization. This is the current version of simple_form that allows one to configure the building process of a form: [...]

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When I am unable to TDD…

Posted on 24. Aug, 2009 by guilhermesilveira.

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It has been a while since we started using unit tests (and other types of tests) in our projects. But test driven design has always been something that once in a while I feel unskilled enough to do from start!? Many people (including myself), for many reasons, that TDD is the way to go… but [...]

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To break or not to break? Java 7?

Posted on 17. Aug, 2009 by guilhermesilveira.

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There is a short slide show to illustrate some thoughts. There will be better ones in the near future. When is the right timing to break compatibility of a public api regarding its previous versions? Well, in the open source communites there is a common sense that a library is allowed to cause some migration [...]

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"Tenso" – Coding while at 0% code coverage

Posted on 05. Aug, 2009 by guilhermesilveira.

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Two of the most typical consultant’s job are trying to save a failing project or implement new features and fix bugs within a project which code is not as clear or as good as one wishes. Uncle Bob mentions that if all checked in code is a little better than the code which was checked [...]