I keep forgetting this, so I’m going to write it down.

I, like a lot of developers, love Github. I treat my account a bit like a business card for myself and brochure for what I can do. Whenever the time rolls around to look for a new job, having a few interesting project in there helps a lot during and after the interview.

Today I wanted to write a functional test for a Play 1.2.4 app that required the request to come with a preinitialised Play session. At first I thought that this would be easy, however it turned out that there isn’t a ready-made solution for this built in so I had to cobble together the pieces myself.

I didn’t think I would see this day but today I clicked on an ad for Microsoft Azure on Stackoverflow and saw that Azure is offering Ubuntu Linux instances! After picking up my jaw from the floor, I just had to share this with the world.

The new Ubuntu release has just rolled around and with it a slew of new packages. Personally, I’m tracking the development of Ruby quite closely but the default Ruby on Ubuntu ist still the 1.8 series which I can’t recommend. Ruby 1.9 has some performance improvements and 1.9.3 in particular a lot of them compared to 1.9.2.