Glenn Vanderburg
Chief Scientist, Relevance Inc.
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MagLev
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Chad Fowler nails it with his summary of MagLev. Like Chad, I think MagLev’s initial performance numbers will hold up. It’s possible that as it matures it will get slower, but it could get a lot slower than it is now and st more »Growing Great Programmers
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Here’s another highlight from RubyConf 2007: watching Jamis Buck and Michael Koziarski give a terrific keynote based on their joint blog, The Rails Way. I leaned over to Alan Francis and mentioned how encouraging it is to see young programm more »Presentations
Fuzz-Testing Rails Apps with Tarantula
Tarantula is a Rails plugin for doing easy, repeatable fuzz testing of Rails applications. Tarantula crawls your application, supplying random inputs at every turn and looking for signs of trouble. It can be used to regularly check for many kinds of err more »Sinatra: Essential Simplicity
Sinatra is a Ruby-based framework that makes it trivial to write simple web apps very quickly. It's much lighter weight than Rails and fills a different need, but a lot of very smart people are using this exciting new tool. more »Fuzz-Testing Rails Apps with Tarantula
By Glenn Vanderburg
Tarantula is a Rails plugin for doing easy, repeatable fuzz testing of Rails applications. Tarantula crawls your application, supplying random inputs at every turn and looking for signs of trouble. It can be used to regularly check for many kinds of error handling issues, cross-site scripting and SQL injection vulnerabilities, and more mundane things like invalid HTML. This talk will discuss how Tarantula works, how to use it, and how to make it a regular part of your testing strategy.
I'll discuss the various kinds of problems that Tarantula can help you detect. I'll explain how to install Tarantula, configure it for various kinds of testing, and how to interpret (and react to) its output. Finally, I'll discuss how to make it a regular part of your automated testing regimen.
Sinatra: Essential Simplicity
By Glenn Vanderburg
Sinatra is a Ruby-based framework that makes it trivial to write simple web apps very quickly. It's much lighter weight than Rails and fills a different need, but a lot of very smart people are using this exciting new tool.
In this talk you'll learn how to use Sinatra yourself, the pros and cons of the tool, and how Relevance is already using it today.
