Engineering or Customer Service which is more important?

Posted on June 7, 2009 by Ryan Svihla

I’ve been reading a lot about lean/toyota way lately, mixing that with my past experience as an IT Consultant and throwing that up against a bit of an Ivory tower I fell into with XP that left me unable to … Continue reading →

Posted in Lean | 2 Comments

Castle ActiveRecord and registering classes at runtime

Posted on June 3, 2009 by Ryan Svihla

I use the following trick for adding ActiveRecord classes after the fact for our in-house plug-in architecture.  Thanks to whichever blogger/mailing list I picked this up from so long ago. Scenario 1: Class(es) to load inherit from same base class … Continue reading →

Posted in ActiveRecord, Castle, NHibernate, ORM | Comments Off

IronPython how cool it is

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Ryan Svihla

Briefly, IronPython is an implementation of Python in the .Net runtime. This allows you access to  .Net framework goodness while programming in a dynamic language. The current stable version 2.0.1 maps to CPython 2.5.This allows me to do fun fun … Continue reading →

Posted in IronPython, Python | 4 Comments

Context/Spec style testing and my approach to BDD

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Ryan Svihla

I borrow heavily my approach to testing from a combination of Ayende’s Rhino Tools tests, and my reading of the Rspec beta book. But I think I’ve stumbled onto something I’m happy with and I can generate reports out of. … Continue reading →

Posted in BDD, Context, Spec | 12 Comments

Glad to be here

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Ryan Svihla

Hi, my name is Ryan Svihla and I’m the newest member of Los Techies and I’d like to provide some background for most of you wondering “who is this guy”. I’ve recently moved to San Antonio, TX and absolutely love … Continue reading →

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