May 2012
3 posts
Selenium + Test::Unit + Rake = Painless Web...
Selenium, Ruby unit testing, and Rake are all fantastic tools that will make your life as a developer much, much easier. Together, they can make testing web applications painless. I’ll try to go beyond simply explaining what these technologies are by outlining effective ways of using them (though if you’ve never even heard of any of these technologies, don’t worry!).
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A Response to TechCrunch's Assessment of edX
I recently read this TechCrunch article: http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/09/move-over-harvard-and-mit-stanford-has-the-real-revolution-in-education/, and I wanted to share my thoughts. (These were originally posted as a comment on the article, and are reproduced below.)
This article is unfortunately inaccurate. As other commenters have pointed out, edX will not simply be a repository of static...
Why Harvard and MIT's edX is a huge deal.
Today, Harvard and MIT announced edX, a joint initiative to make online courses available to the global community through an open platform. The press release is here: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/mit-harvard-edx-announcement-050212.html, and some great commentary by the New York Times is already available here:...
