Nashville Ruby on Rails meetup, November: Cucumber and BDD

The Nashville Ruby on Rails meetup group met last night (Nov 19) at Centresource. I did the presentation on Behavior Driven Development and using Cucumber. In the first half I used some slides to explain why develop “outside in”–going from descriptions of the software first to writing the code second. The second half we implemented two features from scratch using Cucumber to...

A good yelling-at for the guys

Are you a guy? Do you wonder if there’s more to life than what you did yesterday? Do you like being yelled at? Watch...

Odie Teague

I had a good experience working Odie Teague of Nashville installing two doors for us (building the frame/jambs) in our 100 year old home. Wanted to something online to build his Google search...

My soul kinsmen: the Amish

Driving through Amish farms in Ethridge, TN I love the Amish. What I love about the Amish They love Jesus They love children and the family They are slow to adopt a new innovation to see its long-term impact on their love for Jesus and family The Amish are entrepreneurs and craftsmen–farmers, builders, makers, fixers.  I relate to that a lot in software...

It feels so funny that my vote made a difference

There was a recall election for our city council district in Nashville on Thursday. Stephie and I voted, and the winner won by 2 votes. Feels...