I found a link to this on slashdot: What’s The Greatest Software Ever Written?

Be sure to check out the companion article: How Windows Measures On The Scale Of Greatness.. the last paragraph is a gem:

“To be great, it’s supposed to do the job intended. Windows comes close, tries hard, gets an A for effort, but just when we think it might be great, along comes that blue screen of death and we’re rebooting all over again.”

After being distracted by other things, I’m back to getting more up to speed with Rails. I’ve been doing a fair bit with Ruby lately, especially rSpec. Now I have some external motivations to dive back into Rails. I’ve pulled my ReadingList project off the shelf, and started from scratch again (for the third time.. previously once in Rails and once in Seaside), this time using rSpec as I go. After a couple days work, I have a load of functionality… including some AJAX dazzle this time.

Once it’s in good shape, it will go live here.

Keith Ray posted a comment/followup to my original BDD article here.

Excerpt:

By the way, I HATE saying TDD is ‘not about the testing’. I have to say it now and then because of people not realizing it’s about designing, rather than testing. The fact that the word ‘test’ is in the name just helps confuse the issue. My preference for naming this design technique, is to call it ‘Behavior Driven Design’. Or ‘Behavior-Spec Driven Design’. With BSDD, I could say BSDD is about the behavior-specs, but mostly about driving design.

(Via Keith Ray.)