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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Posted on March 24, 2009 at 9:15 pm by adam · Permalink · One Comment
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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 [...]

Posted on March 9, 2009 at 6:31 pm by adam · Permalink · 3 Comments
In: Automation, Firefox, JavaScript, Mozilla, Open Source · Tagged with: , , , , , ,

Micro-Bookmarking with MyTabs

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 [...]

Posted on February 23, 2009 at 9:18 pm by adam · Permalink · 2 Comments
In: Firefox, JavaScript, Mozilla, Open Source, Web · Tagged with: , , , , ,

Meet lookupNode

A few months ago I did a re-write of the DOM access functionality used by Windmill and various other projects of mine and the result was a wrapper around ElementsLib called lookupNode. I use this all over internally but until today didn’t realize that it could be hugely helpful for test developers and people trying [...]

Posted on January 20, 2009 at 8:22 pm by adam · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Bringing Windmill to Life

Project Status I have spent nearly every day since July 7th working to bring the Windmill Project up to a level where it can be used reliably in a production environment. Our mission starts with “Windmill is a web testing framework intended for complete automation of user interface testing”, of course this refers to the [...]

Posted on September 4, 2008 at 2:42 am by adam · Permalink · 2 Comments
In: JavaScript, Open Source, Technology, Web, Windmill, Windmill-dev · Tagged with: , , , , , ,

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 [...]

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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