sarahmei

The Insufficiency of Good Design

We all want to write good code, and there is no shortage of advice on
how to do that. SOLID. SOA. SRP. LoD. These are undoubtedly important,
but none of them address the single factor that has the biggest impact
on the quality of a codebase.

That factor is Other People. The people you're working with affect the
codebase more than you do, in aggregate, if there's more than a few of
them. And it's not just the individuals. How your team is organized,

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 it "contains public posts from people you're following" do
   # Alice follows Eve, but Eve does not follow Alice
   alice.contacts.create!(:person => eve.person, :aspects => [@alices_aspect], :receiving => true, :sharing => false)
      
   # Eve posts a public status message
   eves_public_post = eve.post(:status_message, :text => "hello", :to => 'all', :public => true)
 
   # Alice should see it
   alice.visible_shareable_ids(Post).should include(eves_public_post.id)
 end

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<div id='content'>
  <h1>Sarah Mei</h1>
  <div id='content_inner'>
    <div class='entity_profile vcard author' id='i'>
      <h2>User profile</h2>
      <dl class='entity_nickname'>
        <dt>Nickname</dt>
        <dd>
          <a class='nickname url uid' href='https://otherpod.com/' rel='me'>Sarah Mei</a>
        </dd>

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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<XRD xmlns='http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/xri/xrd-1.0' xmlns:hm='http://host-meta.net/xrd/1.0'>
  <hm:Host>otherpod.com</hm:Host>
  <Link rel='lrdd' template='https://otherpod.com/webfinger?q={uri}'>
    <Title>Resource Descriptor</Title>
  </Link>
</XRD>

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<XRD xmlns="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/xri/xrd-1.0">
  <Subject>acct:sarah@otherpod.com</Subject>
  <Alias>"https://otherpod.com/"</Alias>
  <Link rel="http://microformats.org/profile/hcard" type="text/html" href="https://otherpod.com/hcard/users/4cec1e372c174347b90000ad"/>
  <Link rel="http://otherpod.com/seed_location" type = 'text/html' href="https://otherpod.com/"/>
  <Link rel="http://otherpod.com/guid" type = 'text/html' href="4cec1e372c174347b90000ad"/>
  <Link rel='http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page' type='text/html' href='https://otherpod.com/u/sarah'/>
  <Link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2010#updates-from" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://otherpod.com/public/sarah.atom"/>
  <Link rel="diaspora-public-key" type = 'RSA' href="[public key omitted for length]"/>

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- content_for :page_title do
  DIASPORA* ALPHA
- begin
  = render :partial => 'home/show'
- rescue Exception => e
  = e.inspect
  :css
    header{
      display:none;
    }

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XVFB=/usr/bin/Xvfb
XVFBARGS=":99 -ac -screen 0 1024x768x16"
PIDFILE=/tmp/cucumber_xvfb_99.pid
case "$1" in
  start)
    echo -n "Starting virtual X frame buffer: Xvfb"
    /sbin/start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --make-pidfile --background --exec $XVFB -- $XVFBARGS
    echo "."
    ;;
  stop)

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    context "mobile" do
      it "renders a share button when you don't pass aspect IDs" do
        get :index, :format => :mobile
        response.body.should =~ /#{Regexp.escape('id="status_message_submit"')}/
      end
      
      it "renders a share button when you pass aspect IDs" do
        get :index, :a_ids => [@alices_aspect_1], :format => :mobile
        response.body.should =~ /#{Regexp.escape('id="status_message_submit"')}/
      end

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if Gem::VERSION >= "1.3.6" 
  module Rails
    class GemDependency
      def requirement
        r = super
        (r == Gem::Requirement.default) ? nil : r
      end
    end
  end
end

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=> Booting Mongrel
=> Rails 2.3.2 application starting on http://0.0.0.0:80
cruise data root = '/home/smei/.cruise'
./lib/cruise_control/../../vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails/gem_dependency.rb:99:
in `requirement': 
undefined local variable or method `version_requirements' for 
#<Rails::GemDependency:0x7fd0d5382090> (NameError)