blowmage

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Mike Moore writes about software development, Ruby on Rails, testing, and engineering practice at blowmage.

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Everybody Guesses #SoftwareDevelopment #Engineering #Ruby
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Aug 18, 2026
Arguing With Agents #SoftwareDevelopment #Engineering #AI
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Apr 14, 2026
Fixtures on Purpose: Fixtures as Documentation #SoftwareDevelopment #Testing #Engineering
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Apr 8, 2026
Fixtures on Purpose: The Rule of Four #SoftwareDevelopment #Engineering #Testing
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Apr 7, 2026
Fixtures on Purpose: Mining Production for Personas #SoftwareDevelopment #Engineering #Testing
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Apr 6, 2026
Fixtures on Purpose: Telling Stories With Data #SoftwareDevelopment #Data #Engineering
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Apr 3, 2026
Fixtures on Purpose: Fixture Personas #SoftwareDevelopment #RubyOnRails #Testing
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Apr 1, 2026
Fixtures on Purpose: The Combinatorial Trap #SoftwareDevelopment #Engineering #Testing
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Mar 30, 2026
Fixtures on Purpose: From Accident to Artifact #SoftwareDevelopment #Engineering #Testing
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Mar 30, 2026
New minitest-rails releases (5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 6.0.0.rc1) #Ruby #Testing #Rails
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Jun 18, 2019
Writing Games with Ruby #Ruby #GameDev #SoftwareDevelopment
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Apr 17, 2015
Stupid Ruby Tricks #Ruby #SoftwareDevelopment #Programming
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Mar 30, 2015
Jim Weirich: My Mentor #SoftwareDevelopment #Engineering #Mentorship
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Feb 20, 2014
Adding Minitest Spec in Rails 4 #RubyOnRails #Minitest #SoftwareDevelopment
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Jul 8, 2013
Minitest & Rails: Total BFFs #Ruby #Testing #Rails
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May 29, 2013
minitest-rails: Roadmap to 1.0 #Ruby #Testing #Rails
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Mar 18, 2013
Refactoring towards "better" code #SoftwareDevelopment #Refactoring #Programming
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Feb 7, 2013
How to write a conference proposal #Tech #Software #Writing
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Jan 24, 2013
Escape to RubyConf! #Ruby #SoftwareDevelopment #Conferences
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Sep 19, 2012
Where to Put Tests in Rails #SoftwareDevelopment #RubyOnRails #Testing
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Jul 12, 2012
Announcing minitest-rails #Ruby #Testing #Rails
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Jul 10, 2012
Presenters and Decorators: A Code Tour #SoftwareDevelopment #RubyOnRails #Engineering
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Jun 13, 2012
Outgrowing the Cloud #SoftwareDevelopment #CloudComputing #Engineering
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Mar 1, 2012
Rubiverse Podcast Lives! #Ruby #Podcast #Dev
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May 16, 2011
Binary Lottery 2008 #Software #Development #Engineering
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Mar 30, 2008
Ruby Folk Are Nice #Ruby #Programming #Community
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Mar 29, 2008
IronRuby + C# = Awesomeness #Ruby #CSharp #Programming
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Mar 10, 2008
The Blizzard of 2008 #SoftwareDevelopment #Ruby #Engineering
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Feb 14, 2008
What I Do #SoftwareDevelopment #Engineering #Ruby
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Jan 6, 2008
A brief history of Ruby on .NET #Ruby #SoftwareDevelopment #History
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Jan 3, 2008
The Failure of Static Languages #SoftwareDevelopment #Programming #Engineering
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Dec 19, 2007
The Rubification of C# #Ruby #CSharp #Programming
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Dec 18, 2007
Why the kids don't like the RSS #Tech #OpenSource #WebDev
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Oct 20, 2007
Getting RubyGems to play nice at work #Ruby #SoftwareDevelopment #OpenSource
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Oct 18, 2007
Will we ever get IronRuby on Rails? #Ruby #Rails #SoftwareDevelopment
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Oct 10, 2007
Ruby Blue Visual Studio Theme #Ruby #Development #VisualStudio
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Oct 10, 2007
ALT.NET Conf: Day 3 #Tech #Software #Development
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Oct 8, 2007
ALT.NET Conf: Day 2 #SoftwareDevelopment #Engineering #Community
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Oct 7, 2007
ALT.NET Conf: Day 1 #SoftwareDevelopment #Engineering #Tech
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Oct 6, 2007
RailsConf 2006: Day 1 #RubyOnRails #SoftwareDevelopment #TechConference
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Jun 25, 2006