mguterl

OP1

I really have enjoyed reading through Shay Howe's guides:

http://learn.shayhowe.com/html-css/

http://learn.shayhowe.com/advanced-html-css/

You might want to check out The Little Manual of API Design:

http://www4.in.tum.de/~blanchet/api-design.pdf

Unfortunately, paying someone well does not necessarily mean you're going to end up quality either.

It's worth stating that this is the MailingListsController and there is no mention of a MailingList. It seems to me like some functionality in the "before" example could live in the MailingList class.

Your site never seems to load for me.

Underscore.js has a function called once for this exact purpose.

I've been using analytical with our Rails backend which seems to achieve something similar:

https://github.com/jkrall/analytical

Inheritance is not always the right solution.

The idea of instant scalability is somewhat flawed. James Golick does a pretty good job of explaining why here:

http://jamesgolick.com/2010/10/27/we-are-experiencing-too-mu...

Here are some Chef cookbooks that will help get Jenkins running on Ubuntu including support for headless browsing via XVFB and Firefox:

https://github.com/bmabey/continuous-cooking

We just started using steak and it is slowly replacing cucumber in our application.

We found the translation between English -> Step Definitions -> Ruby to be too onerous, especially after our stakeholders showed no interest in helping write the scenarios...

It also gives you the nice syntax "keywords", feature, background, and scenario.