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BDD: My quest to become a professional tester

-Posted Aug 05, 2009 By: Jon Kinney

Now I’m not saying that I only want to be a tester of web applications. After all, creating them is what I enjoy the most. However, I believe that to be a professional coder, you need to test your applications. Now I’m not talking about that day or two at the end of a project when you run through the application in your browser and hope that nothing breaks. No, I’m talking about real testing. Testing that is done alongside the code, if not before. To me, testing is a tool that I’m integrating into my coding stack that is simply going to become part of how I write an application.

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Tech Review: Web Design For Developers - June 2009

A friend of mine in the web development community is releasing a book called "Web Design for Developers: A Programmer's Guide to Design Tools and Techniques". I was asked to do a tech review of the book and will be sharing my thoughts as well as some cool info presented in the book in a short series of upcoming blog posts. If you want to grab a beta copy of the book head over to my favorite publisher The Pragmatic Programmers.

First Class Audio Production - March 1st 2009

My most recent studio project was mixing and producing the latest a cappella album to come out of Eau Claire, WI. Until Proven Guilty is the Innocent Men's 4th studio album and marks a huge leap forward in recording and production quality for the group. Check back for demos of the mastered songs very soon! http://theinnocentmen.com.

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