The first release candidate for ScoutApp 0.6.0 is available for download from https://github.com/mhs/scout-app/downloads . This brings compass 0.12.1 functionality and the ability to specify a configuration file to take advantage of advanced compass features. Based on feedback I'd like to push out the final ScoutApp 0.6.0 release as soon as possible.

Interesting findings about our wonderfully irrational brains from Daniel Kahneman's book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, and then a stream of thoughts relating it to software.

Yesterday, a colleague asked me why I did what I did. Rather than responding with the first thing that came off the top of my head I waited until this morning, so I could spend a little time thinking about it. It's a deep question after all. Here's my answer to his question.

A fun list of things that may help identify what type of programmer you are.

Often times, people tout speed of test execution as its the holy grail of testing. It isn't and here's why.

Christopher Alexander, from his infamous book The Timeless Way of Building describes how the language of the builder directly impacts what he is able to build. The same is true with software.

rspec-requestable-examples is an RSpec extension that gives you the ability to define shared example groups where you can explicitly include which examples to run. This provides the ability to keep RSpec examples together and to easily include them in the specs for concrete specs. If you're familiar with RSpec's shared example groups then you may be well interested to see how this takes that functionality one step further.