Bryce McDonnell

I’ve recently been using Shoulda as my testing framework of choice to speed up my Rspec test writing. One common pattern kept recurring which was totally vexing: I wasn’t able to test my custom routes. Just recently, I was writing a reviews controller that is mostly controlled by an admin user of the site. It’s [...]

Inc Magazine is easily my favorite. I love reading about entrepreneurship and have faithfully read this magazine cover to cover for the last several years.
Well, this month I’m fortunate enough to have a small cameo in “The Goods” section on page 54 (see the crm review online). In it, I talk about the merits of [...]

I’ve had a bit of time to finally pursue some open source initiatives that I’ve had cooking in the back of my mind. I’m really excited to release this project I’ve been working on because it showcases work in both PHP and Ruby on Rails. I’ve created a plugin written in PHP that integrates into [...]

As I grow as a professional, I often find significant philosophical differences between me and other developers. In an effort to help you get to know me better, I thought I’d outline a few of those philosophies here.
There Are No HTML/CSS Programmers
Markup languages are not programming languages. They can’t do math and neither can be [...]

I recently returned from a trip to Beirut, Lebanon where I had been doing some humanitarian and mission work. One of my responsibilities was to create a file sharing server for a humanitarian organization.
Given the budget of next to nothing and the relatively small size of the office, I decided it was best to proceed [...]

I was recently deploying a PHP site to a client hosting their content with IIS 7. In my code, I typically raise and handle exceptions. My philosophy is simply that exceptions are logical operators like “if”, “then” and “while”. At any rate, when I deployed this code to the production environment, IIS would raise an [...]

A little while ago, I posted some javascript for a mootools content slider. I’ve used it a lot in my own Ruby on Rails and PHP development work and my work with jv2 I have been itching to just drop it into my code like Squeezebox or Swfobject.
So, here it is, a fairly beta version [...]

Kevin Rose, founder at Digg.com was flying from SFO to New York city this morning when he connected to Virgin America’s on board wi-fi connection and began streaming his trip from 30,000 feet.
Utilizing twitter, he sent out a tweet with a link to where people could view his stream. Interacting with the audience of over [...]

This is an old version of an improved Mootools Content Slider

I recently implemented a javascript based slider using MooTools. I’m increasingly becoming a huge fan of Mootools. Their documentation is great and the code I write just seems to be much cleaner. I don’t feel like it’s as fragile as js I’ve written in prototype/scriptaculous.
The [...]

More information can be found at the links provided, but Microsoft is not starting the year off strong. Most media outlets led with a story about how the Zune, Microsoft’s digital music player, was hit with a glitch in how its internal clock accounts for leap year. Then, it’s industry leading web browser, Internet Explorer, [...]