Category Archives: JavaScript

Windmill Gets a Facelift for 1.0Beta1

Posted on November 19, 2008 by

Working up to the Windmill 1.0 Beta 1 Release, I finally had the opportunity to put some time into making the IDE (that a lot of you live in when in test writing mode) a little bit nicer to look at. The IDE has been growing organically since 0.1 and there was a lot of functionality hacked into it that wasn’t in the original game plan, so I did what I could to improve the beauty of the CSS/Layout as … Continue reading →

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Bringing Windmill to Life

Posted on September 4, 2008 by

Project Status I have spent nearly every day since July 7th working to bring the Windmill Project up to a level where it can be used reliably in a production environment. Our mission starts with “Windmill is a web testing framework intended for complete automation of user interface testing”, of course this refers to the web including everything and anything inside the browser window. This turns out to be a very large task, one that only an Open Source labor … Continue reading →

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Mozilla Summit

Posted on July 30, 2008 by

I am currently up here in Whistler BC for the Mozilla Summit. There is about 400 people here staying at the Westin Resort & Spa up here in scenic Canada.  The schedule for the con can be found here; http://wiki.mozilla.org/Summit2008/Sessions/Schedule I do have to say that Mozilla is doing a great job at taking care of all their contributors and employees this week, and I feel like a lot of progress is being made on many levels. It’s very useful to … Continue reading →

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OSCON 2008 Recap

Posted on July 30, 2008 by

This year was my second year at OSCON in Portland, and it’s pretty amazing for me to look back at last July and know that I was working at OSAF. A lot can happen in a year, but what didn’t surprise me was the amount of people that I interacted with at the con that I had met during my OSAF experience. A few things come to mind when I think about the conference as a whole. First off, who … Continue reading →

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Oscon 2008 Schedule

Posted on July 23, 2008 by

Every year I like to make myself a road map of how I will be spending my time during OSCON. As there are so many interesting possible talks, gatherings and social events it’s tough to get to all the things you care about. At this point in my career my focus is on Web Development, Test Automation (specifically for the web & browsers), and social networking. Obviously on a moment by moment basis your interests are pulled in varying directions, … Continue reading →

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Leaving Rearden Commerce, What’s Next?

Posted on June 27, 2008 by

What happened? As some of you may have heard, today I resigned from my position at Rearden Commerce. Leaving a company is never a fun thing, because you know how you feel when you hear that someone else is leaving.. and you can see it in people’s eyes. I have reminded myself multiple times today that I am still going to be 30 mins away, most of my communication with those people has been via email and IM and there is no … Continue reading →

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IE Web Development Tips

Posted on June 25, 2008 by

As a web developer you are probably aware of that sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach that you suffer when posed with the idea of testing your freshly written JavaScript that works perfectly in FireFox. For years now, we have had to ‘suck it up’, and pour a glass of scotch to get through an afternoon of testing in IE. As I am now a Web Developer at Rearden Commerce who currently caters to an audience of enterprise … Continue reading →

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