June 2009
9 posts
Mixing Cucumber with Shoulda
Joe Ferris wrote up a nice set of instructions a few months ago. A few months being a few eons in programming terms, they’ve become a bit out-of-date. I have created an updated set of instructions that work with Cucumber 0.3.11 as a gist.
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More Federal Small Business Funding Help
My colleague Terry Bollinger at DoD/OSD/DeVenCI (email: terry at mitre dot oh arr gee) has five additional recommendations for small businesses interested in Federal funding for tech research and development:
1: Integrator Partnering
Some big defense integrators have groups dedicated to working with universities and small companies to respond to SBIR/STTR calls. One example — I would expect...
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SBIR Experiences
After yesterday’s post regarding the US Government’s SBIR program, I’ve received a few responses from colleagues who have gone through the process. I’ll share them here (with permission) for anyone who’s interested in pursing this sort of funding.
From Paul L.:
I used to work with a couple of small companies, where we were pretty successful in winning SBIR...
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Small Business Innovation Research
My friend Allan had a nice post about pooling resources among small businesses to weather the economic storm. Suggested that he might additionally check out the SBIR program website for a new possible revenue stream. He asked for more info.
Because I work in the public interest, I can’t provide Allan’s group — wonderful as they may be — any preferential help in pursuing public...
WatchThis is gorgeous. Especially the Jell-O shot at the end. I suspect David Coiffier didn’t get The Gotan Project’s permission for the audio, though. And that’s way more than what you can get away with for fair use.
Goals
My mentor at work asked me to put together a list of short-, medium-, and long-term goals. I figured putting them up in public could only help me focus on achieving them.
Near-term (December 2010)
Build RedCarpet – a tool to help departments in my company communicate about hiring status (due October 1, 2009 for use in next year’s hiring efforts) (version 1.0 launched October, 2009)
Figure...
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Drunk Men Work Here →
This is a very well-done study on the workings of our dear Internet. Worth the read.
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Merb::Rack::PathPrefix Lacks a Certain Je Ne Sais...
Chapter 1, in which we meet Yehuda Katz and are generally hopeful
I was just watching Yehuda Katz’s “Merb and Rails 3.0” talk from Scotland on Rails 2009 and my ears perked up when he mentioned Merb::Rack::PathPrefix. I’ve seen this tried in other frameworks and they usually get something wrong, so I checked out Merb’s attempt in the hopes they got it...