That’s a whacky title…

A few folks have asked if the next Learning Rails episode is still planned for next week given the overlap with our seminar preparations. The answer is absolutely! I’ll post again when it is out Monday, but in the next episode we are covering the basic concepts around testing in all of its various flavors. You’ll also have to excuse the coining of a new term…those of you who have known me for a while know I have a knack for naming things that become terms that just won’t die. In this case, after an explanation of Test Driven Development, I’m laying claim to the term for the opposite of “Test First Developers” being “Test After Developers”, as in “a TAD too late”. It probably isn’t clear where I stand on testing.

Although there is a lot of attention being cast on other “fill-in-the-blank” driven development, we’ll be sticking to simple testing and modest TDD coverage at our seminar. While I believe strongly in these concepts, the sheer quantity of new information for folks is overwhelming, and I want to keep with the general coverage of the overall getting started topic in an introductory course.