Hi, I'm Benedikt Deicke, and I'm a freelance web and software developer. I'm mainly building user focused web applications using Ruby on Rails and JavaScript. Additionally I'm currently studying for my master's degree and enjoying photography in my spare time. Feel free to get in touch with me, I'm available for hire!

April 2008

April 10th, 2008
Using RSpactor with Linux

Andreas Wolff recently released RSpactor, a (up to now) command line tool similar to autotest. Nevertheless it differs from autotest in two points. First it’s focused on RSpec and secondly it’s using Mac OS’ FSEvents to monitor file changes. According to this it only runs on Mac OS. To get...

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August 2007

August 21st, 2007
Developer Abuse

Watch this (sad) video on YouTube. It’s the winner of the Agile Advert video contest. The other videos are available at agileadvert.org [ via ]

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March 2007

March 8th, 2007
Agile Development

Since a few months I’m working on a project at university. We are creating a browser-based whiteboard-like collaboration plattform called ‘EduCs’. The university told us to use the waterfall approach. We spent the whole last term creating documents and just finished the design-phase about two weeks ago. I already hated...

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