Peter J. Fitzgibbons

Raise Kids, Raise Bread, Raise Code

  • Totmato Sauce, Software, Human Variability

    Malcolm Gladwell at TED 2004 describes the research of Howard Moscowitz for Campbell’s Soup / Prego. The lessons learned from Howard beautifully correllate with Kathy Sierra’s Quantum Mechanics of Users The Nutshell If users are asked for their preference, they will likely tell you something very common and rather vanilla. When given the experience of…

  • In Search Of …

    Peter John Fitzgibbons (Gillies) My father is John Cecil Joseph Gillies (John Cecil Gillies) My grandparents : Robert Cecil Gillies and Millie(Mildred?) Gillies were separated in 1940s. Millie and Ted married in 1961. Both deceased in 1979. My aunts : Roberta, Virginia and Ivy are all living. Roberta is now in Windsor, NS, CA. Her…

  • Gmail – Spam – Recipes!

    So, I’m perusing my GMail Spam folder today just to see if any non-junk is in there… and what do I find on the quick-rss toolbar??? SPAM RECIPES!! Like so…

  • Anagrams can bite back !!!

    Jim’s article demonstrates this : Don’t say CRUD say FUC’D. I Love It!

  • Coverage (rcov 0.5.0.1) in Ruby on Rails 1.1.2

    rcov 0.5.0.1: code coverage for Ruby released by Mauricio Fernandez contains all that is needed to produce code-coverage reporting in Rails. Requirements Ruby 1.8.4 (especially on Win32 requires updated libraries.) Rails 1.1.2 Classes There is only one file to add to your current rails app: lib/tasks/coverage.rake Rake -T Here’s the new tasks with rake -T…

  • Single Fixtures declaration for Selenium on Rails

    When testing out a complex website, replicating the |open|/selenium/setup?fixtures=x| line would be painful! So, Add a const at the beginning of the setup_controller in Selenium Plugin at ./vendor/plugins/selenium_on_rails/lib/controllers/selenium_controller.rb: Also alter #setup as so : New lines are 6-9, and the change on 10 from referencing params[] to the local var fixtures. Then, use this in…

  • Mr Yuk Happy 35th!

    This is Poison Control Week, Mar 19-25, 2006. Since Mr. Yuk was conceived in 1971, this makes it Mr. Yuk’s Birthday! Poison Prevention.org

  • 1 – Strategy Pattern

    The Strategy Pattern really resolves to “composition” in practice. This OO technique says to take components that could change at runtime and encapsulate them in their own objects. The master-object is then “composed” of instances of the dependent clasess. Example: Produces: So now handle the en-user request to have ducks with different flap : Now…

  • Unit Test WPF Window with NUnit

    I will outline how to setup NUnit testing with WinFX 1.0 (Feb CTP) in order to UnitTest an Avalon Window. What’s wrong Points of technology that drive the details. WPF windows must run on an STA Thread (Single-Apartment) MS Forums NUnit (and TestDriven.net, using the NUnit API) run all tests with an MTA Thread. NUnit…

  • Nice to know I still remember something.

    You Passed 8th Grade Math Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct! Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?

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