Archive for the ‘Work’ Category

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 [...]

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 [...]

Diving into GIT

Over the last year, I have known that the day would come when I could no longer avoid moving from SVN (my comfort zone) to this new beast called GIT that everyone is so excited about. My first hour, which was installing it on my Mac and pulling down a repo to play with was [...]

Posted on November 25, 2008 at 8:10 pm by adam · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Zero to Continuous Integration with Windmill

Following ‘automation’ and ‘continuous integration’ in the micro blogging world I have seen a major influx in people being super interested in functionally automating their web apps. I have seen a slew of things about Grid, and Selenium, and people hacking on Watir so I decided to show you from the ground up how incredibly [...]

Posted on September 19, 2008 at 2:29 am by adam · Permalink · 6 Comments
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Mozilla Summit

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 [...]

OSCON 2008 Recap

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 [...]

Oscon 2008 Schedule

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, [...]

Leaving Rearden Commerce, What’s Next?

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 [...]

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