Mike Dalessio's blog
Happy Holidays from NYC!
Interesting
- Someone noticed that rspec's
should_not(rdocs here) returns false when the spec passes, whereasshouldreturns true when it passes. This has unexpected results when ashould_notis used within a Webratwait_forloop (code here) -- wait_for loops until its body returns true. Fail! - John Resig has implemented a
jQuery.requiremethod that should be in the next release. Check out the commit and the lengthy discussion here. Everyone's a critic. - One Pivotal project that recently switched from MySQL to Postgres noticed that PG sorts NULL values differently than MySQL. The default in PG is NULLS FIRST when ordering DESC, and NULLS LAST otherwise. You can override this behavior by using a NULLS FIRST or NULLS LAST clause in your ORDER BY.
- Someone was reminded the hard way that Ruby's
rescue, by default, only catches exceptions inherited from StandardError.
Help
- Does anyone know of a service or library that will convert an email into a tracker story? The use case is stake holders who send UI/UX requirements within emails with attachments, etc.