March 2012
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Cucumber-JVM 1.0.0
Today I am very excited to announce Cucumber-JVM 1.0.0. Cucumber-JVM is a pure Java implementation of Cucumber, with native support for the most popular JVM languages: Java, Scala, Groovy, Clojure, Rhino, Jython and JRuby. Cucumber-JVM is the successor of Cuke4Duke, which was the Ruby implementation of Cucumber, running on JRuby. Cuke4Duke was a pain to use - it was hard to install and both slow...
Mar 27th
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December 2011
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Replacing NPM with Make
Package management at a high level is a fairly simple concept. A software package can be uploaded to—and downloaded from—a central location. The Node.js Package Manager NPM does this, and a whole lot more. If you run npm help you’ll be presented with 64 different commands. I have been using NPM for about a year, and I have only ever used 4 or 5 of these. If someone did a study...
Dec 22nd
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October 2011
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Oct 6th
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The training wheels came off
Cucumber rounded the 1,000,000 download mark a couple of days ago, and is clearly a very popular tool. It owes a lot of its popularity to Cucumber-Rails - a Ruby gem that sets up Cucumber in a Rails project. One of the reasons Cucumber-Rails has become popular is that it is relatively easy to get started with. Most people who learned to ride a bike as a child had training wheels. When a child...
Oct 5th
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August 2011
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Webbit 0.2.0 with hybi-10 support
The WebSocket specification has gone through several drafts, and seems to be settling down after some security flaws were identified and resolved a couple of months ago. Most current web servers that support WebSockets implement the hybi-00 version of the specification (which, confusingly is the same as hixie-76). Last week, Google released Chromium 14.0.835.2, which implements hybi-10 - the...
Aug 8th
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July 2011
2 posts
Jul 25th
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Jul 13th
June 2011
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Cucumber 1.0.0
I am so thrilled about this I set up a blog! Today I released Cucumber 1.0.0 after three years in the making. Here are some interesting numbers: 740,000 downloads 250 contributors (according to the git logs) 1,300 Google Group members and 8300 messages 630 Resolved bugs/feature requests What’s next? I am working on a Cucumber book with Matt Wynne that will be out later this...
Jun 20th
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Jun 19th