Dev News for Friday
Grant Speelman
Nov. 22, 2013
A controversial opinion - Murray
Flying in face of the dogma spouted by the so-called "XP" and "Agile” throught-leaders, Pat Maddox bravely provides a convincing blog post about why not to pair.
useful for integrating accessibility testing - Tom Russell
released by our friends at Nature Publishing Group: http://pa11y.org/
bridge between campfire and your IRC client - Tom Russell
https://github.com/zerowidth/camper_van
A bridge between campfire and your IRC client, if you hate all the GUI clients available :)
Noduino - Andy M
http://semu.github.io/noduino/
I've finally looked at buying myself an arduino this week for some interactive stuff around my house, but I would rather not deal with the learning curve invovled in getting something basic up and running. Noduino offers a node framework for accessing basic Arduino controls from familiar web interfaces.
Ruby 2.1.0-preview1 released - Andy M
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/09/23/ruby-2-1-0-preview1-is-released/
Ruby 2.1.0-preview1 has been released this week. Beware of following vulnerability though! https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/heap-overflow-in-floating-point-parsing-cve-2013-4164/
Hacking your home with Ruby - Andy M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeyTsdkItg4
Following on from my other post here is some more cool stuff around hacking the home with Ruby. As you may have guessed, I just moved house. Let's see how tech we can make it!