Just wanted to show off some of the work I have been doing on aggregation of Automated Test Results. Really just in the early stages, but already have some cool stuff. Architecture and design were highly inspired by Mikeal Rogers and this talk - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWuwcSm_pUo My designs continue to be inspired by the work he and Max Ogden are doing. [...]
I will be showing off my Selenium Android Farmville Tweeter bot at the Portland Oregon Selenium User Group tomorrow. What better way to learn Selenium and Android automation then to farm some crops on Zynga’s most famous game! I will walk you through the steps I took to create my Selenium Farmville Tweeter Bot [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Testing embedding github:gist in my blog.
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 [...]
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. [...]
With not too much fumbling I got my development and test environments setup! I started off with this blog article HOWTO install Ruby on Rails on Windows and deploy to Heroku which was a well written article. That lead me to http://railsinstaller.org/ which made installing my ruby on rails environment simple. One single install file and the below were [...]
March 14, 2012