Category Archives: Open Source

JSConf and NodeConf – 2011

Posted on May 10, 2011 by adam

Last week was both JSConf and NodeConf in Portland, OR and it was absolutely epic. I spend all year looking forward to the various Portland conferences, but this year happened to also be my first JSConf.us, the first ever NodeConf and a lot of thick bacon. If you aren’t aware of that term, it has become a great way to gauge the accumulated awesomeness regarding the quality of experience at a conference. I believe this was coined at one of … Continue reading →

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Node.JS is a Swimming Pool

Posted on December 22, 2010 by adam

Over the past six months I have heard about the unbelievable awesomeness involved in this project called Node.JS. At first I thought, “Server Side JS NOT on the JVM” – YAY! Then after a few days of that I thought, “I really don’t care about server side code, even if it is JS”. See the thing is, right out of college I started fooling with raw DOM, cross browser event firing and capturing and building pretty big cool projects without … Continue reading →

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CouchCamp was great

Posted on September 15, 2010 by

I just wanted to drop a quick note outlining some of my thoughts about CouchCamp (or you could call it “Swiss Family Robinson” meets database geeks anonymous). First and foremost — having a tech conference at a summer camp is just plain awesome. As we all know that the social lubrication required to gel a bunch of geeks can lead to a state where said geeks should not operate any kind of a vehicle. In this case, all they had … Continue reading →

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September, Month of Travel

Posted on September 3, 2010 by

This summer has been relatively light on conference travel for me, minus some time in Portland for Open Source Bridge.. (which was awesome, again). Next week I will be heading up to Couch Camp at Walker Creek Ranch. I am really looking for it for multiple reasons, but having visited the venue when it was being considered I couldn’t help but be blown away with the hidden little Marin valley. I really look forward to participating in the CouchDB geekery, … Continue reading →

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My new gig – Sauce Labs

Posted on March 23, 2010 by

After almost two years of working at Slide Inc, I have started my new job at Sauce Labs. The press release can be found here: “Sauce Labs Adds Windmill Test Framework Co-Creator Adam Christian to Engineering Team“. Slide Inc. I had a fantastic experience and learned a ton working with the really talented team of engineers, artists and product managers over at Slide. It was incredibly educational to work in an environment where so many people use your product everyday. … Continue reading →

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Considering in-house web automation?

Posted on March 2, 2010 by

Recently I have had numerous conversations with people at various tiers of companies all over the place who are toying with the idea of building their own test automation and continuous integration infrastructure. Since I have spent a considerable amount of time dealing with such undertakings I decided that it might be worth the time to brain dump some of the issues you may want to consider before you dive in. Choosing Tools Boxes, VM’s or Cloud? A common first … Continue reading →

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Windmill Plugin for Hudson

Posted on May 11, 2009 by

Over the last 6+ months, I have been using Hudson in conjunction with Windmill very heavily for continuous integration. For the most part using the build step specific to whatever the slave OS requires has worked sufficiently well until recently when my needs changed. I use the ‘configuration matrix’ option to build a matrix of browsers to run the tests, this way I can have one job that represents a test run on multiple boxes and multiple browsers on each … Continue reading →

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PyCon 2009 Recap

Posted on April 13, 2009 by

Getting back in the swing of things after conferencing for weeks can be pretty painful, thus the lateness of the post. However I think it’s important to go over some thoughts still lingering in my brain as a result. First off, I have to say that for those of you who don’t know, PyCon is a community organized event, and amazingly well done. I was impressed by the design of the conference, the way they had four talks going on … Continue reading →

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MozMill 1.1 UI Overview

Posted on March 9, 2009 by

During the Open Design session at Mozilla with Aza we were informed that we could load a HTML file with a Chrome URL, allowing me to rebuild the MozMill UI a bit more like a web page instead of using the XUL constructs that I had been struggling with. Granted it feels a lot more like a web page than it does a desktop application, but the speed that I can build new UI features by using libraries like JQuery … Continue reading →

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Micro-Bookmarking with MyTabs

Posted on February 23, 2009 by

A few weeks ago I realized that every time I boot my laptop, one of the first things I do is to open Firefox, and immediately load about 7 web sites as tabs. Some of them requiring user interaction to navigate to the desired state. I didn’t realize that this was actually a phenomenon called “micro-bookmarking”, and that I may not be the only person who has this routine. I don’t necessarily want to bookmark these sites, and this process … Continue reading →

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