Mike has a knack for writing short, compact, beautifully written pieces that teach me stuff about stuff. This time, it looks like I'll have to get an update on how testing has changed in Rails 1.0.
Speaking of beautifully written pieces, reading this bit of Nat Pryce's report from OOPSLA got me rolling on the floor, laughing:
I've just got back from OOPSLA 2005. It was held in a soulless conference center in San Diego that was, strangely, shared with a couple of quite scary fundamentalist christian groups who publicised their predictions about when Jesus was going to return and sit on the British throne in magazines left around the foyer.
It was odd to be surrounded by two groups of people who clung zealously to their strange ideas in the face of incomprehension from the general public. But of course there's more to OOPSLA than Smalltalk and Common LISP.