Baphled's Weblog

Well I was hoping to get this post published a month or so ago but better late than never. As some of you may know, I’ve taken some time to learn Ruby & Rails over the past few months and have been using RSpec & Cucumber quite a bit to roll out new functionality. It soon came [...]

I haven’t worked on Chatterl for a few months but there are some fundemental changes that had been made back in March, apologies for the slow update but honestly I haven’t had much time with learning Rails & freelance work. Summary Well the main changes in chatterl are the following: Message storage Registration Introduction of unit tests CWIGA now RESTFUL API calls I’ll [...]

So if you’ve been following along from the other parts of the series, you’d remember that we have been building a project story builder using cucumber and BDD. So far we have learnt how to use the process to flesh out functionality from the outside in and generate the basic functionality for our application, this [...]

Well carrying on from the previous post, we’ll focus on some actual functionality in this post & start on creating the functionality for users to create new projects. As always we’ll start off with our feature: Feature: As a registered user I must be able to create projects In order to create a new project [...]

Carrying on from my last post, I’ll introduce Rest Authentication to the Story Board project. The plugin comes with its own stories & definitions, so it will be a nice learning source for us whilst learning Cucumber & RSpec So to start off with lets install the plugin. Now I’ve experienced some issues with [...]

Well it’s been a while since I’ve written anything really technical & seeing as Rails is taking up a lot of my personal time, I thought I made sense to put some of my newly found knowledge together. I thought it best to not go over material that has already been done and very well I [...]

Well on my journey to improve my programming skills & again purely because I’ve been getting tired of using PHP for all my solutions, I recently decided to delve into Rails. I’d been pointed to it by Ekerete Akpan an old work collegue who uses it quite extensively with his own projects. I’d resisted from learning the [...]

Well it’s been a while since I’ve written a post, mainly due to the amount of time I’ve spent learning Rails & working on Solvius. After reading “Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware“, I decided to create a program to store all the problems I come across over times, storing them in a solutions log [...]

I\’ve been working on my old site the past couple of days and needed to integrate a blog aggregator for my wordpress blog. Instead of doing it all from scratch & reinventing the wheel, I decided to integrate SimplePie into my Zend Framework project. Listed below are the steps I needed to get  SimplePie into Zend Framework. Download [...]

Over the years I’ve become pretty good at picking up on errors, learning a new paradigm as well as a new language helps to introduce a lot more of these than usual so I’ve put some of the more common errors I have come accross to help others pick up on the errrors that had [...]