Jay Fields' Thoughts

It's no secret that I think plugins are unnecessary . Unfortunately, they are also popular, largely due to to how easy it is to create a...

On Christmas Day 2007 I released the 0.0.1 version of expectations . Expectations is the result of several months of designing what I wante...

It's very rare that I go to a client and pair programming is not an issue. Developers love their desks, personal keyboard configurations...

As a consultant for ThoughtWorks I get to see a lot of different codebases. A pattern that I've seen in almost every codebase is that yo...

When writing a state based test you must specify an expected value and an actual value. Whether you are using RSpec, Test::Unit, or any oth...