Monthly Archives: February 2010

Automated Testing

By Aaron Ransley | Published: February 9, 2010
In the spirit of sharing, I’m going to talk a bit about how automated testing has stolen my heart. I’ve been working with some form of Web development for roughly 7 years now, but have had surprisingly little experience in maintaining a codebase over time. I’ve never liked this fact. Due to the one-off nature [...]
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Humanized Output

By Aaron Ransley | Published: February 3, 2010
Shown here is a snippet of the woot! homepage. I enjoy this little widget particularly because of the way excerpts from the forums are prefixed. The human readability of “[user] would like to know…”, “[user] reports back…”, and “[user] had some troubles with a…” is significant. Go organic with your Web application’s verbiage, especially in areas where [...]
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