Antony Denyer

I wanted to start looking at alternatives to our current set of cucumber feature tests. At the moment on the web team we’re using using FireWatir and Capybara. So I though I’d take at look at what was available in Node.js. Many people think it’s strange that a .Net shop... [Read More]

Last Thursday a few of us from 7digital had a meet up with Sebastien Lambla author of OpenRasta. As some of you may know we’re been writing all our new API endpoint using OpenRasta, we have a vested interested in ensuring the success of this project and as such are... [Read More]

One of the things we try and do is always keep our site up, sounds simple right? One way to achieve this is to have a good caching policy. Here’s what we do: [Read More]

Double-entry bookkeeping system A double-entry bookkeeping system is a set of rules for recording financial information in a financial accounting system in which every transaction or event changes at least two different nominal ledger accounts. At it’s simplest you have two ledgers when you make an account transaction you make... [Read More]

We’ve spent a lot of time recently on fixing up our automated feature tests (AATs). The problem has been that these failing tests have blinded us to real problems that have crept into live systems. The usual answer is to ‘just run them again’ and eventually they go green. The... [Read More]