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iPad’s, iPhone’s, iThink I’m going broke
Some of you may know that over the past few years I have been a bit of a early adopter, when it comes to Apple products. A few years ago, it was considerably easier — since the rate of product releases felt much slower and the increase in technological capabilities of each of the revisions [...]
My new gig – Sauce Labs
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, [...]
Considering in-house web automation?
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 [...]
Meet Kimta
The year 2010 so far has been personally very hard on me, however there has been a bit of shining light. Starting in mid January Megan and I started tossing around the idea of having an animal in our little Russian Hill cottage, after living with two awesome cats for the last two years things [...]
#OSB, #CLS and #OSCON – 09
I had the opportunity to attend the Community Leadership Summit in San Jose last weekend followed by OSCON in the same venue. The whole experience of these in conjunction gave me a lot of interesting comparison and contrast.
First I’m going to talk about my frustrations so that I can get them out of the way [...]
Hudson + EC2 + Windmill = Cloud Testing
This should give you a pretty good idea how to use the available tools to run your functional tests out there on the cloud.
I do plan to keep updating this post, so consider this a rough draft for the time being! I hope this provides some value.
Setting up Hudson
It would be pretty silly for me [...]
Windmill Plugin for Hudson
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 [...]
PyCon 2009 Recap
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 [...]
Skinning Windmill with JQuery UI Themes
I have been doing a lot of UI work on the Windmill trunk, and over the past few months I have had multiple requests for the ability to apply skins. Of course my reaction up until this point has been… alter the CSS! Which is not exactly the answer people were looking for.
Here is your [...]
MozMill 1.1 UI Overview
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 [...]
