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But then how could I monetize it? I don't think I could run adverts on someone else's service?

Yes, but I think it would be fun to gamify it somehow.

Idea: StackOverflow for comebacks I've always had a hard time coming up with a good comeback in conversations. It would be great to have a site where I could post a situation and h…

Idea: A paid, members-only app where people can post and discuss their ideas.

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That's the best of both worlds. I'm going to give this a try.

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1) is pretty hard, but I'm tackling some basic strategies to adding tests to an untested mass of code. 2) is the entire reason why I'm writing the book. Building a testing habit is…

Yeah I did. 1) Inheriting someone else's bad code and habits is a huge reason to throw testing out the window. It's really frustrating and always comes with a "We'll write tests in…

A year ago, I would have agreed with you. There's nothing stopping you from building a successful product without writing tests. Since I built the habit of writing tests, though, I…

Sorry about that. It lazily checked for two characters before the @ instead of one. It should work now: http://whatdoitest.com/

Fixed. Thanks.

Yes! Michael Hardt's tutorial is the culprit for me as well.

Computers don't understand english very well. It's easier for us to learn to talk to them, than to teach them how to understand us. DSLs are helpful for some, but sometimes they ge…

"For me it was a simple decision: If I want community support, I need to be using the tool the community is actually supporting." Truth. And the community is really split on this o…

My theory is that new Rails developers spend more time learning how to test than what to test. This article isn't necessarily about which framework is better, but more about which …

OP here. MiniTest::Spec is great, and knocks out two of my complaints in the article: * Expectations are readable and writable * The docs are very easy to digest: http://bfts.rubyf…

This is great. Two weekends ago I did the same type of migration using Linode and Capistrano. Heroku taught us what we should expect from a platform, and it seems like, as a commun…