February 2009
153 posts
and switching to Roger Cicero big band sound an in German too.
January 2009
108 posts
listened to Franz Ferdinand new album. can’t get into it. I love their first album. Another Glasgow area musician. Amy MacDonald rocks
Git on Win Vista. should I go with cygwin install or msysgit?
Installed Wubi on my new Vista laptop. Has trobule waking up from standby sleep mode. So I’ll partition and install the dual boot ubuntu
can’t sleep. spent evening running watir automated checkouts for production rollout so it’s time do start doing taxes for 2008
Working late. Release to prod tonight. Hanging out watching watir scripts do the work
ok, my tshirt from http://www.eff.org/ just came in the mail. my wife said “hacker tshirt”. oy. need to evangelize my family.
gist.github.com/53410
ok, I am officially cranky. want to go home and sleep. damn those allergies in texas
RT @michaelocc One of the best lines I’ve received by email so far this year: http://bit.ly/va8V
RT @lsrc: Matz is coming to LSRC2009 Aug 27-29, Austin TX.
Opera and Watir support
Wilhelm: our implementations has 3 parts: the opera binary, to which you can communicate through a documented protocol, a proxy that connects to the binary, and tests scripts based ... we're adding support for Watir in our tests scripts
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-dragonfly-architecture/
Kai: support for Watir needs to be added in Opera binary?
Wilhelm: some can be added through javascript; some require new APIs in the binary, which we are adding
Getting stoked about Watirloo, a lightweight watir framework for lazy testers like me. It is all about Interfaces for now or Object Maps.
http://tinyurl.com/95c88u reading
Released watirloo gem with class interfaces. Cuts down on test maintenance. Next is usecase class to extract
Battles with eigeclass methods. Yiipii
Nothing goes right on this machine. Reboot time
First crash of brand new dell with vista 64. Only 2 hours of work. shoul have gotten mac? Maybe
Can’t watch youtube. Flash player does not work on 64 bit browsers - says my IE7 on Vista64bit.
http://tinyurl.com/bmyzdn looks like a must read
and I am maybe now finally able to comprehend few things about Ruby. My ignorance is HUGE. Trying to learn a bit every day.
looks like I first learned about Ruby 4 years ago http://tinyurl.com/dk2mgf I think it was on Joi Ito’s IRC channel then.
Need plumber in zipcode 75229 quick fix needed
http://lwn.net/Articles/210045/ via @bpettichord good git writeup
N2P2 = Net Negative Producing Programmer. N2T2 can be for ‘Testing Tester’?
using mibbit for twitter
refactoring a 79 lines method in ruby somebody wrote in Watir tests code on my project. Yes, you can be procedural with Ruby.
setting up mibbit accout to load irc and twitter. it’s an experiment
i prefer to say ‘let me simmer this some more’ rather than ‘let me digest it’. you know what comes out of digestion, right?
but I am a bit stubborn to learn new things weekly so maybe this week vim?
trying to learn gvim inspried by @charley_baker but i need coaching. Help. It is so different from Jedit, my daily workhorse.
Being Single parent tonight with 3 kids. Horror. I admire my wife. Honey please come back soon
I would not make it as scrummaster. I am too cynical. I make a good tester me things
Speaking of Charity. http://www.charitywater.org/ is our family’s official charity for 2009 inspired by @pdignan of Watircraft.
My kids love http://freerice.com/ They learn about charity. Thanks to Berkman Center and UN.
looks like lenovo T60 laptop wireless monitor exe has some leaks. after 24 hours it was using 60% of CPU, Laptop was almost inoperable.
Process Explorer from sysinternals (aka Micorosoft now) is a good util to have.
http://twitpic.com/154wd our cafeteria when Joe The Biden takes oath
People clapping at the office for Aretha
They set up TV in our cafeteria at work so employees can watch Obama’s inauguration. Great move by our corporate office
Personal navigator using google maps while on the phone with my wife driving to direct her out of downtown dallas with 4 kids in a car.
I have 2 hours now so I will completely redesign watirloo based on carrying around suitcases and opening them at the appropriate time
Back home from #awta my mind is overloaded. I just want to sleep but kids want to play.
Here I am: http://tinyurl.com/98fkjy
Here I am: http://tinyurl.com/9u86ro
Here I am: http://tinyurl.com/a2ygcv iron cactus in Austin #awta
#awta Wilhelm from Opera http://twitpic.com/13y0w
‘if we can help people with language’ - @pdignan at #awta… Look at Language-game distinction from Cockburn’s Agile Soft. Dev. book
bret at #atwa ‘There is no one God’ referring to our framework uses other frameworks that use other frameworks
Yes, this is the new meme on twitter. The brand new twitter users are encouraged for their first twit to insult another twitter user