the blog

I have been very amiss at keeping this up to date. However, I have been having too much fun doing this re-write. Just in case anyone was left hanging, I caught up on my laundry and now have cleaned the clothes off the floor of my closet. My facade of organization runs a little deeper in the bedroom now (that sounded a little weird). Also, the Xerpi closet is in order as well. In the past three weeks I have completely re-thought out the domain model and implemented it relying heavily on ActiveRecord's capabilities. It is especially cool to get back into the TDD mindset and have not just a working business tier, but also a whole suite of unit, functional, and integration tests to go along with it. Now, I'm dealing with the front-end stuff. I think it is a bit more frustrating because one can't really write unit tests for it first and then work until that passes. One has to tediously go through trials and errors, looking at how pages render and spending way too much time fretting over pixels!

We'll be going through our first round of QA on this stuff in a week, so I'm trying to get as much of the UI components done before then. But, we can all rest assured, cause there is no facade here -- I started at the core and worked out to the user-interface, so things are in order through and through.