Archive for July, 2006
[Developers] also want M&Ms for breakfast and a pony.
Joel On Software: Private Offices Redux
I don’t often agree with Joel’s theories of software development management but things are changing… Joel, give me M&M’s for breakfast and a pony and I’m yours.
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July 31st, 2006 | Posted in Agility, Business, Code, Wes's Boring Life, Work Environment | 2 Comments
We’re laying out a project now and trying to choose container name for the “that part of the project that where the developers live” as opposed to the “place where the testers test stuff lives”. Using “core” seems so bland… but so far I can’t seem to convince anyone to name it “bedrock”, “presupposition” […]
July 25th, 2006 | Posted in Code, Work | 3 Comments
Selenium, it’s all the rage right now because it makes cross browser web application testing simple and easy. What you probably didn’t think it did was make AJAX Test Driven Development Possible, but it does:
Based on selenium, jsunit, we actually can develop javascript application in a TDD way.
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July 25th, 2006 | Posted in Agility, Code, Selenium, Testing | No Comments
I found Is Fitnesse Ready for Enterprise? by Naresh Jian today and was impressed to see that he’s rounded up answers for the most common complaints from those new to Fitnesse. I’m going to throw my feedback into this loop and hope to see the community respond. So what is Fitnesse missing? […]
July 24th, 2006 | Posted in Code, Fit/Fitnesse, Java, Testing, Work | 1 Comment
Jeremy D. Miller wrote two excellent posts that take you step-by-step through the creation of an acceptance test suite using Fitnesse, Selenium and Fitlibrary.
Create a Testing DSL with FitNesse and Selenium (Part 1)
Create a Testing DSL with FitNesse and Selenium (Part 2)
In the two posts you’ll see how these pieces were combined to test. […]
July 19th, 2006 | Posted in Agility, Code, Fit/Fitnesse, Selenium, Testing | No Comments
The word “sauce” is a French word that means a relish to make our food more appetizing. Sauces are liquid or semi-liquid foods devised to make other foods look, smell, and taste better, and hence be more easily digested and more beneficial. Because of the lack of refrigeration in the early days of […]
July 16th, 2006 | Posted in Wes's Boring Life | 4 Comments
Click on that picture… think there might be a memory leak somewhere?
July 11th, 2006 | Posted in Wes's Boring Life | No Comments
Buildix is an agile development platform on a disk. Those folks at ThoughtWorks decided that creating a Knoppix based distribution that is a “load and run” development server was a great idea; and I agree. Chris Read, a ThoughtWorker known for his Build Master tendencies, describes Buildix as:
The whole point of […]
July 10th, 2006 | Posted in Agility, Code, Java, SCM, Work Environment | No Comments
I don’t know why these girls just don’t just jump in the car. First, I that car talks. Second, look at that leather jacket. Third, it has that sweet red LED thing on the front that goes back an forth.
July 9th, 2006 | Posted in Media | No Comments
I’m seriously thinking about starting up with SecondLife. Articles about schools of fish inspire me to dabble in a medium that could be my new crystal meth. I’ve avoided playing video games or anything related to them for nearly a year now because my Halo 2 addiction got a bit out of hand, […]
July 6th, 2006 | Posted in Wes's Boring Life | 1 Comment