After getting a do-nothing web app running on Heroku, I think the riskiest requirement is having a scheduled job for LibraryHippo to check families' status and notify them. However rather than trying to satisfy that requirement, this time I'm going to try to set up email sending, mostly because it …
Last time I laid out the uncertainties that have to be explore before I want to try hosting LibraryHippo on Heroku. Here they are again, roughly in descending order of importance and risk:
For some years, I've run a hobby project, open to all, but mostly used by a few of my friends and family, called LibraryHippo. I find it useful, and for a long time, it was a joy to work on.
Lately, the project's not much fun. I've had the urge …
Recently while working on an open source .NET project,
I forgot to update the .nuspec after changing a package
dependency in my project.json. Of course the resulting nupkg
contained the wrong dependency. Fortunately, the package
wasn't published in that state, but I didn't want to risk such a thing …
Earlier this week at the day job I ran into an interesting problem working with a DataTable. A view that's supposed to show a subset of the table's rows showed nothing. I dropped into the debugger and became even more confused.
Visually inspecting the DataTable showed that there was a …
Since Google is deprecating OpenID 2.0 support, I decided to update LibraryHippo to authenticate via OAuth 2.0, which is a story in itself, but I'm here to talk about what happened next.
LibraryHippo has a set of handlers that are accessed primarily via the Cron and Task Queue …
A little while ago, I was fixing a LibraryHippo issue
in an area of the code that didn't have very good unit test
coverage. As part of my fix, I moved one class from the main
libraryhippo.py file to its own file. I integration-tested the fix,
deployed the new …
A while back, Roman Turovskyy wrote FakeItEasy: Be Careful When Wrapping an Existing Object, an interesting post highlighting some of the difficulties of faking classes (as opposed to interfaces, which by virtue of having no behaviour of their own, are quite a bit more predictable). It's well-written and I enjoyed …
The FakeItEasy rakefile contains a vars target
(brainchild of Adam Ralph) that can be used to print out
the local variables defined in the script. Mostly these are static
variables, such as the path to the NUnit command, but some,
such as the upcoming FakeItEasy version, are computed. Logging these …
A few days ago, a user e-mailed me a bug report for LibraryHippo. For the previous 55 days, she'd been receiving the same (erroneous) morning e-mail about what library materials she had due. However, when she checked her family's account summary on the web page, it was correct.
(The exact …