Just got back from GTAC. Wow what a great conference! It was a invite only conference and google picked up the entire bill. It was a complete who’s who in software test automation. Made a lot of great contacts, learned a lot and have a bunch of ideas. Next years is in Paris. Better start working on [...]
September 28, 2011
Me and my coworkers were featured in a IBM Rational Case Study. We had a lot of success with the Rational tools, but we have moved on to Selenium for added features, community and multi-browser capability. Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon halves testing time Testing automation with IBM Rational tools dramatically improves efficiency and [...]
September 24, 2011
I think it has been over 10 years since I wrote my first ‘Hello World’ in Java and this week I became certified in Java by Oracle. A few co-workers were putting together a study group so I joined in. I am a sucker for some social geekery. I have a love hate relationship with [...]
September 18, 2011
I started to design a header menu bar and didn’t want to use an image as the Application title home link, but I didn’t want some old boring font either. Enter @Font-Face a struggling standard that looks like it is finally going to grab hold in css3. @Font-Face basically lets you tell the browser [...]
September 6, 2011
Wanting to play more with CouchDB I thought of this small little project. The goal was to graph the number of tweets per day I made over 2010. So began the journey. Download all tweets from api.twitter.com in json format. Install CouchDB on dev machine localhost. Insert all tweets into CouchDB. CouchDB talks json so [...]
August 28, 2011
I have been wanting to do some more jquery, json, javascripty stuff to improve my chops….so I figured I would play with the twitter api this time. If you follow me on twitter you may have seen that I have had issues creating twitter lists in the past via the twitter.com gui. Odd errors and [...]
August 15, 2011
That is me and my wife in Southpark…make your own here: www.sp-studio.de Wow its done!! I made the move from Blogger to WordPress! The import went really well. Only thing I didn’t like was the blogger tags came across as categories . I do like all the features in wordpress…plus its just fun to create [...]
May 29, 2011
Well I created a Ruby on Rails Blog application. You can find it hosted on Heroku here: http://jameseisenhauer.heroku.com/ It could use some more features, but generally it completes the story of blogging. Well how did I get here…… First! Like any newb programmer I looked for a tutorial. The http://rubyonrails.org site recommend http://railsforzombies.org/ . So why not start there. [...]
October 29, 2011