A few years ago I switched to an old fashion safety razor and haven’t looked back. The latest entry into the razor market has reaffirmed my decision as the right one. The new Pro Glide from Gillette only costs less than $10 to purchase. Good deal, right? Nope. The replacement blades cost $3-$4 each! Assuming you get a few weeks out of each blade, you’re looking at paying between $6 and $10 every month to use this razor blade.

Lately I’ve been playing with testing frameworks all over the spectrum of languages. I’ve come to really enjoy using Cucumber for testing web APIs. Since most of my coding lately has been in JavaScript or Python, using Ruby with Cucumber allows me to completely segregate my tests from the system under test (SUT). This separation has worked great until recently when I needed to have the test system running in Python.