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Helpful iOS Stackoverflow Posts 2 Jun 2012 | 05:00 am
I have been learning Objective C / iOS on the side for the past several months now. I have worked through several books and some of the apple documentation. I am working on a non-trivial application n...
Internals Visible To 18 Jan 2012 | 10:00 am
I was working on an HttpModule today that I will try and blog about later. I wanted to make an interface that I was programming against internal. This of course broke my unit tests. Luckily I remember...
Capybara InvalidSelectorError - Selenium Issue 2099 24 Aug 2011 | 08:00 am
This morning I tried running our entire capybara suite and a ton of tests failed due to an issue with the Selenium Webdriver. It took some searching and tinkering to come up with the fix below. The f...
BDD for JavaScript with Jasmine 17 Aug 2011 | 08:00 am
Both peepcode and tekpub have done excellent screencasts on using backbone.js in the last couple of months. In peepcode’s screencasts, they used a JavaScript BDD framework that was very intriguing cal...
Check Active Element with Capybara 6 Aug 2011 | 08:00 am
The other day, I wanted to test that a certain element had the focus with capybara. This is what I came up with: Note: @s is my session. I am managing session myself as I am testing a non rack app.
Knockout JS 6 Aug 2011 | 08:00 am
I have known about knockout.js for quite a while now. It’s one of those libraries that gets a lot of coverage, I just haven’t had the time to check it out. From the introduction: Knockout is a JavaS...
My Vim Setup on Windows 27 Jul 2011 | 08:00 am
I have been slowing teaching myself how to use vi/vim for quite some time now. I have been using a Visual Studio plugin called ViEmu and I have also been using MacVim some on my Mac. A few days ago I ...
Quick way to use Amazon CDN with toto 22 Jul 2011 | 08:00 am
Just a few days back Amazon released an official Ruby SDK for Amazon Web Services (AWS). I found out about it through an introductory article on rubyinside.com. I figured writing a quick script to up...
Close the Browser After Each Capybara Test 11 Jul 2011 | 08:00 am
I have been using Capybara to test a non rack based app. Basically I am just pointing it at URL and am then managing my own sessions. Until recently, I was not properly closing the browser after each ...
Looking for non ASCII Characters with Capybara 9 Jul 2011 | 08:00 am
I was trying to test some internationalized pages with capybara this week and kept running into problems. In my test, I was trying to make sure that the prices on our UK pages showed British pounds £ ...
