Noise from the Basement

I am excited to announce that I’ll be attending BSides Edmonton this year! I’m looking forward to increasing my cyber security knowledge from the talks, CTF, and fellow attendees.

Specially I’m looking to learn the latest best practices for protecting my clients websites and their underlying servers. Is this something you can help me with? If so let me know and we can chat either at the conference or some other time.

I’m also happy to chat about software development, DevOps, legacy code, board games, Warhammer 40K lore, amount other things. I’m also happy to pair on some CTF problems.

Getting to the end of fixing the Standard Ruby Linter ToDo bug. In this video I refactor and remove duplicate code from a system tests that are similar. It goes well for the most part. The only hiccup is the trying to figure a way to run setup code once for all the tests in the file.

The system test is finally working!! I go over, again, why it’s important to make sure your tests fail. Now that the test is working I start refactoring it to remove duplicate code.

Spent longer then I would have thought trying to get a before setup method to work in MiniTest. During my investigation I think I got the JetBrains AI to suggest a fix for a MiniTest PR that was rejected which was interesting to see.

I get my system test working at the start of video but the problem is it works so well that it still passes even after I re-introduce the bug when it should have failed. Crap! That means my test is not working correctly.

I spend the rest of the video trying to figure out why the test is not failing when it should and get very frustrated. So frustrated this became my longest video yet at over two hours! End up digging into the RuboCop code to try and figure out what is going on. I do figure out the problem at the end of the video in a ah-ha moment. Spoiler: the problem was I didn’t link to the Standard config file correctly.

I’m happy to announce that XPlugins.iOS.BEMCheckBox v2.0.0 has been released! This a wrapper for the BEMCheckBox which lets you create highly customizable, animated checkboxes for iOS. You can find the v2.0.0 NuGet package here.

This release includes all the fixes to the underlying BEMCheckBox from v1.4.1 to v2.0.0. This includes the following breaking changes:

• Minimum iOS version was increased from 8.4 to 12.

• Events renamed:

  • DidTapCheckBox renamed to DidTap

  • AnimationDidStopForCheckBox to AnimationDidStopFor

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