Kevin McKelvin

I was testing a client I wrote to a server API recently. Being relatively new to testing with RSpec and Ruby, I initially took the naive…

The Slim template engine seems to have gained a lot of popularity in the Rails community recently. Their site describes it as ‘A…

I’ve spent the better part of the last 4 months looking into what the open source communities have been up to. The .NET stack was great to…

Saturday 13 August was Devs4Devs at Microsoft’s Bryanston offices.  Apologies that I’ve taken so long to get my slides and code out, but…

Calling all developers!  Microsoft’s Devs4Devs is happening on 13 August 2011 at their Bryanston offices. Devs4Devs has to be my favourite…

Thanks for the great turn-out at the Microsoft Community Night on 12 July, we had a full room for the languages UG! For those who weren’t…

One of the things I fell in love with about Rails is its automatic management of timestamps on data.  When you create a new entity, it sets…

I started playing with TypeMock Isolator this morning as an alternative to using the Moles framework from Microsoft Research. Isolation…

On Saturday I gave a presentation at ERDDUG on Unit Testing, Mocking and basics of TDD. Slides are on Slideshare: Unit testing Also here’s…

Thanks to Darrel Schreyer (@dwschreyer) for today’s presentation at the East Rand Developer & DBA Usergroup. This month Darrel covered an…