David Singleton , a Web Developer working at Last.fm, living in London.

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Things I've tagged “development” (15 things)

• "Achievements Unlocked" | Xbox Engineering Blog   (Monday August 16, 2010)

  Some insight to the development process behind Xbox achievements, really interesting

  Also tagged interesting 360 achievements development

• Rubular: a Ruby regular expression editor and tester   (Monday August 16, 2010)

  Does what it says on the tin. Test Ruby regex live in your browser. Has a handy display of matches too.

  Also tagged ruby regex development programming

• Cucumber: building a better World (object)   (Saturday August 14, 2010)

  An explanation of Cucumber World, essentially just an object scope your tests run in, and how to extend it.

  Also tagged cucumber bdd development ruby testing tips

• 15 Expert Tips for Using Cucumber | Engine Yard   (Saturday August 14, 2010)

  Good tips for Cucumber testing, though the comments disagree with using rake

  Also tagged cucumber testing ruby development programming acceptance

• Webrat Textmate bundle   (Wednesday August 11, 2010)

  Minimal, but handy.

  Also tagged textmate editor development webrat testing

• Textmate bundle for Cucumber   (Wednesday August 11, 2010)

  Gives some handy syntax highlighting and autocompletion.

  Also tagged textmate bundle cucumber testing development tools

• Writing Testable JavaScript   (Tuesday July 13, 2010)

  Good practical thoughts on JS testing.

  Also tagged javascript testing tdd code development web qunit

• Redis tutorial, April 2010 - by Simon Willison   (Monday April 26, 2010)

  These slides and notes were originally written to accompany a three hour Redis tutorial I gave at the NoSQL Europe conference on the 22nd of April 2010.

  Also tagged toread architecture db development opensource database nosql redis

• django-batchimport - Project Hosting on Google Code   (Wednesday February 10, 2010)

  A django app to import large data sets from files (CSV, XLS) into models.

  Also tagged programming django python development csv

• dcramer's django-devserver at master - GitHub   (Wednesday February 10, 2010)

  A drop in replacement for Django's built-in runserver command. Features an extendable interface for handling things such as real-time logging, showing you caching hits/misses and SQL queries.

  Also tagged django python logging development

• ReCSS: Reload your CSS   (Tuesday September 22, 2009)

  A bookmarklet to reload the CSS on a page without needing to re-request the entire page. Supports IE, FF and Safari

  Also tagged bookmarklet css development webdevelopment

• Six Things Your Mom Never Told You About Debugging Javascript   (Thursday July 30, 2009)

  A quick guide to quirks of IE Javascript debugging. It's the pickiest browser ever.

  Also tagged development javascript debugging ie6 ie

• BadAPI   (Monday July 27, 2009)

  "BadAPI allows you to simulate misbehaving APIs. This is useful if your site relies on the availability of service X, and you want to ensure that any downtime experienced by that service has minimal impact on your own application."
  
  You can similar various HTTP response codes, content-types, error states and time delays.

  Also tagged development programming api webservices testing

• ack -- a power search tool for programmers   (Thursday July 23, 2009)

  "better than grep" is not a lie. Really useful tool for searching source and code files. By default it ignores git/svn files (which often spam grep results)

  Also tagged programming development unix code bash search

• 10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr   (Wednesday June 24, 2009)

  Flickr slides on the ever so tricky relationship between operations and developers, and how to make it better.

  Also tagged slides flickr management deployment ops development