Interview With Selenium’s Jason Huggins
Thursday, September 20th, 2007The Google Testing Blog has an interview with Jason Huggins, the creator of Selenium, a very cool testing tool for web applications.
Archive for September, 2007
The Google Testing Blog has an interview with Jason Huggins, the creator of Selenium, a very cool testing tool for web applications.
What I Read
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007A grad student mailed me this morning to ask me what I read to stay on top of things. In no particular order: Journals ACM Computing Surveys ACM Queue ACM SIGCSE Bulletin ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology Communications of the ACM IEEE Computer Computer Science Education Computing in Science & Engineering Empirical Software ...
DrProject’s First Review
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007I've been holding back from advertising DrProject until we had a stable 2.X release (2.0 has some teething issues), but it looks like other people are starting to pay attention. Cool!
DemoCamp 14: Best Yet
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007Last night's DemoCamp was a great success: packed house, lots of people talking to one another, some great presentations, and of course, pictures of David Crow's new daughter. My picks of the night would be Chris Thiessen's Zoomii, a (very) graphical front-end for shopping on Amazon, and Lillian Angel's in-the-pub ...
XP Toronto Kicks Off Its Fall Season
Monday, September 17th, 2007XPToronto (a group for eXtreme Programming and agile development) is starting its fall meetings with a discussion of xUnit test patterns on Tuesday, Sept 18 --- see their web site for details, and Adam Goucher's review of Gerard Meszaros's new book for an idea of the content.
Tweaking
Monday, September 17th, 2007Ned Gulley (of The Mathworks) has a great article up called "In Praise of Tweaking" that describes a wiki-like programming contest. An entrant's score is based on both the speed and correctness of his or her code. What makes it really different is that every entry is immediately posted on ...
Cafe Scientifique
Friday, September 14th, 20074:00 on Saturday September 15th at the Rivoli (334 Queen Street West) Free! This month's topic is: Old Habits Die Hard: Can we change before the Climate does? Think you've heard everything there is to know about climate change? Here is a bit of a new spin on an old topic: Can humans change ...
Google Summer of Code Wrap-Up
Thursday, September 13th, 2007900 students, 1500 mentors, and an 81% success rate --- kudos to Leslie Hawthorn and everyone else who made it such a success (again).
A Good Reason to Go Back to School
Thursday, September 13th, 2007"Earlier this year, the University of Washington partnered with Google to develop and implement a course to teach large-scale distributed computing based on MapReduce and the Google File System (GFS)." (details on the Google Code blog)
The Best Electoral Offer Yet
Thursday, September 13th, 2007If you're wondering why electoral reform matters, take a look at the Green Party's proposals, and ponder the fact that despite getting several percent of the popular vote, they have little or no chance of winning any seats (and hence of affecting policy, or growing in size). I don't ...