Trotter Cashion
Co-Founder, Mashion, LLC

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Trotter Cashion is a Senior Software Engineer at Algorithmics, working on a collateral management messaging exchange for the financial industry. He began his career at Eastmedia in New York, where he helped develop the first OpenID server in Rails, before working as an Application Architect on motionbox.com. He is the author of Rails Refactoring to Resources, a Short Cut (e-book) for Addison Wesley and a co-author of the Rails Way. He has also spoken at Gotham Ruby Conference, RailsConf Europe, and Philly ETE.

Sessions

1:40pm Thursday, 07/22/2010

Cooking Your Way to Happiness: System Provisioning with Chef

Operations
Location: D135

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Trotter Cashion (Mashion, LLC)

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(3.08, 13 ratings)

Having trouble ensuring that all your machines are provisioned properly? Find your system of bash scripts difficult to maintain? Come meet Chef and see how easy automated system provisioning can be. We'll cover the benefits of using a tool like Chef, how easy it is to get started with Chef Solo, and how you can scale up to hundreds and even thousands of boxes without breaking a sweat. Read more.

11:00am Friday, 07/23/2010

Unit Tests Aren't Enough!

Tools & Techniques
Location: D137

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Trotter Cashion (Mashion, LLC)

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(3.58, 12 ratings)

Your QA cycle is broken and unit tests aren't enough to fix it. QA takes too long, is too error prone, and never covers as much as we need. To really do QA right, you need automated integration and acceptance testing tools like Cucumber. In this talk, we'll discuss why automated integration testing is a necessity, how you can do it, and why your coworkers and boss will thank you for it. Read more.

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Trotter Cashion Co-Founder, Mashion, LLC