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benerator 0.5.2 released

benerator is a framework for creating realistic and valid high-volume test data, used for performance and load testing, showcase setup and database data extraction. Data can be generated from an easily configurable metadata model and exported to databases, XML, CSV or flat files. This release fixes all known bugs and improves XML file generation performance by 100%, DB snapshot creation by 20%.

Freelancers Are People Too

It's a fact of life that the majority of people writing code for a living are freelancers.

Employers like freelancers because we are flexible, we take responsibility for our own careers and general well-being, and we tend to hit the ground running on projects because - well, because we jump more often and have had more practice at landing on our feet.

Employers don't

What I've Been Using Lately

On my last project we used Watir 1.5.4 (only recently publicly released, but we'd been using it since last fall) and Ruby 1.8.5. There are several problems with Ruby 1.8.6 and therefore I will not use it. We used Rspec...