Selenium: A free Firefox extension that can handle all of your repetitive functional testing requirements for your browser application. Sound like a browser activity recorder? Selenium can handle error alerts, ajax updates, and dynamically generated HTML, which most activity recorders fail miserably with. I cannot get enough of this application, it has already […]
You can hardly click a google link without running into a PHPBB powered forum, but Jack Slocum has taken it to the next level by rewriting the PHPBB UI using AJAX, and his YUI Grid extension. A very cool piece of work that you can see here. Jack’s Grid extension for the YUI libraries is an excellent addition to that package, and for the Dojo libraries, a new Spreadsheet extension is out.
In the process of reading about technology job recruiting, I came across alot of writing about what keeps good programmers from leaving their jobs. While doing all this reading I came to the realization that I do not need a “programmer”, I needed an “Application Developer”, and alot of attributes that some ascribe to […]
If you find value in creating server-side javascript statements that an ajax callback can simply execute with the EVAL statement, then in the ASP.NET environment you have probably found that to be difficult since .NET objects are named differently on the client than on the server. I started to use a little trick that […]
Off to NYC for VSLive. Some interesting things that Microsoft is doing that I want to write about from the Domino perspective (like Sql Server Everywhere; something Domino folks take for granted). See you next week.
Just a quick link over to Joel Spolsky’s site where he pretty much nails on the head the way I see the world when it comes to which language/platform to use for which projects.
So last week another browser called Browzar hit the market, and its claim is that this browser does not save any search, cookies, history, etc.. so you have better privacy. Problem is, you lose tabbed browsing, right-click options, keyboard shortcuts, and support for any other OS but Win32, and all the while ignoring the […]