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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sifteo Cubes are a novel idea first publicized in a TED talk in 2009.  In January 2011, Sifteo invited a limited number of people to join the early release program by pre-purchasing their starter kits.  The $100 kits sold out quickly, and customers received them about three months later.  I was one of those customers. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kconrails.com&#038;blog=8817238&#038;post=679&#038;subd=kconrails&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaime Bellmyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had an interesting experience at a code retreat with the creator, Corey Haines. I created some code that I felt was really perfect. I didn&#8217;t think there was room for much improvement, but it only took Corey a few seconds in passing to find a flaw. It starts with this list of rules for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kconrails.com&#038;blog=8817238&#038;post=640&#038;subd=kconrails&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 14:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in beautiful downtown Boulder, getting ready to attend a code retreat with Ruby greats like Corey Haines, Chad Fowler, Dave Thomas*, Mike Clark, Michael Feathers and many more. Last night I hung out with some KC friends and we setup our dev environments for the event. I got motivated, and created a base environment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kconrails.com&#038;blog=8817238&#038;post=631&#038;subd=kconrails&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Double-Blind Test-Driven Development in Rails 3: Part 3</title>
		<link>http://kconrails.com/2011/02/02/double-blind-test-driven-development-in-rails-3-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaime Bellmyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simple Tests Double-Blind Tests Making it Practical with RSpec Matchers This is the last article in this series describing the concept of double-blind test-driven development. This style of testing can add time to development, but this can be cut significantly using RSpec matchers. If you&#8217;re not familiar with matchers, they&#8217;re the helpers that give RSpec [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kconrails.com&#038;blog=8817238&#038;post=614&#038;subd=kconrails&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaime Bellmyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simple Tests Double-Blind Tests Making it Practical with RSpec Matchers The last article in this series defined the concept of double-blind test-driven development, but didn&#8217;t get much into real-world examples. In this article, we&#8217;ll explore several such examples. The Example Application This article includes a sample app that you can download using the link above. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kconrails.com&#038;blog=8817238&#038;post=603&#038;subd=kconrails&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Double-Blind Test-Driven Development in Rails 3: Part 1</title>
		<link>http://kconrails.com/2011/01/31/double-blind-test-driven-development-in-rails-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a three-part series introducing the concept of double-blind test-driven development in Rails. This post defines the concept itself, and lays the groundwork by showing the way tests are more commonly written. The next couple posts will show how to double-blind test various common rails elements, and how to make this added layer of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kconrails.com&#038;blog=8817238&#038;post=572&#038;subd=kconrails&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you work with legacy databases, you don&#8217;t always have the option of changing column names when something conflicts with Ruby or Rails. A very common example is having a column named &#8220;class&#8221; in one of your tables. Rails *really* doesn&#8217;t like this, and like the wife or girlfriend who really hates your new haircut, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kconrails.com&#038;blog=8817238&#038;post=567&#038;subd=kconrails&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nested Comments in Ruby on Rails, part 2: Controllers and Views</title>
		<link>http://kconrails.com/2011/01/26/nested-comments-in-ruby-on-rails-controllers-and-views/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaime Bellmyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Model Layer Controllers and Views &#160; Part 1 of this series came out exactly 3 months and 3 days ago. Special thanks to a reader named Edward who prodded me to finally add the controllers and views to this. Going beyond the model layer for nested comments introduces a new programming idiom: recursion. Some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kconrails.com&#038;blog=8817238&#038;post=554&#038;subd=kconrails&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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