Testable Requirements and Code

Josh:

"Is it done?" - a question that I hear probably 10 times a day and one that can often be hard to answer. When is a project or a task really done? How do we tell? These questions often lead to problems with budget and scope and cause nightmares for customers and consultants alike. The Computer Science world recognized this issue a long time ago - albeit in a different context - and created a standard for requirements to avoid these problems: A requirement must be Testable.

Posted 04/22/2011 - 13:47

Using DocumentCloud to Expose Public Documents in OpenPublish

Jeff:

DocumentCloud, a Knight News Challenge winning project, provides an innovative technical approach for sharing public documents that we are now incorporating portions of into OpenPublish. In our latest release OpenPublish 2.3 (released yesterday), we have integrated the document viewer technology developed and open sourced by the New York Times and used by the DocumentCloud team to present documents.

Posted 10/29/2010 - 08:05

Knight Foundation Funds Open Source Innovation

:

As a leader in the news industry, the Knight Foundation is transforming the way communities and journalists create and disseminate content. Each year the foundation grants millions of dollars to this initiative and while it prides itself on giving to a wide range of projects, there does seem to be an exciting underlying trend¬open source.

Posted 06/30/2009 - 14:09

Select list for inline editing with Ruby on Rails

Jed:

It's pretty simple to create a select list for inline edits similar to the text field provided by the Rails plugin InPlaceMacrosHelper.in_place_editor().

Posted 03/19/2009 - 15:21