I’ll be in London the first week of July and I’m planning on attending this Flag and Bell Tech Pub Crawl. Should be interesting. Leave a comment or get in touch with me if you would be interested in meeting me there.
I’m a happy fan of ORM, but I have to agree that turning a blind eye to the actual generated SQL can lead to horrible things happening.
If you’re doing RoR you might want to check out this patch to limit the possibility of ridiculous queries being generated.
I’ve just committed a patch to ActiveRecord […]
My friend Matt Michie wondered what the symbol DEP1 matched in his post about Seattle 911 Dispatch on I5. He’s speaking of the real time Seattle 911 mashup that puts 911 calls on google maps. I tried but couldn’t find any information on this DEP1 symbol so wrote in to the Seattle fire department […]
The numbers are looking good for EC2. Read Live Blogging Experiment Results - Sitening.com for the full details, below are the important numbers.
7 pictures 130 text posts 20k visits 50k pageviews to the page 5M requests - this includes the 15 second content refresh and the […]
I opted out of unsolicited mail earlier this year and today realized why that was a great idea. After being out of town for a month I ended up only spending about an hour filtering my mail… and one piece stood out because it was printed on the lowest quality paper I’ve ever seen […]
People seem to have some problems when it comes to testing file uploads with Selenium RC. I’m not the first to provide a solution but making this work with Selenium RC might take a few more steps.
With Selenium RC you get a fresh browser each time you start a test run. So you’ll […]
I feel like I’m a bad person for finding this tune catchy.
Silverlight Security The Silverlight security system (described here, here and here in Shawn Farkas’ blog) promises to be very useful. Unlike CAS that was hard to understand, the Silverlight security model is very simple and can be explained in a couple of minutes. This should be useful […]
The MOntreal Internationalized Software Testing conference possibly has the worst conference abbreviation ever: MOIST
I’ve never been against the word myself, but others really think it’s gross.
My friend JB Brown has started blogging with a first post about committing a patch to the Code Review Add-In for Team Foundation Server. I hope to see more great posts from him in the coming weeks.