I’ve just finished setting up CI server for automated acceptance tests in my top secret application. It runs Firefox in headless mode (Xvfb) via Selenium and saves me a lot of precious time!
That post helped me a lot:
http://markgandolfo.com/2010/07/01/hudson-ci-server-running-cucumber-in-headless-mode-xvfb
If you need to extend JavaScript execution time in Selenium Firefox driver this gist can be helpful:
My fix to Juicer CSS embedding was added to the 1.0.6 release. I love open source :-)
In the era of JavaScript frameworks bare DOM programming feels like low level C. Its awkward but much faster, and sometimes helps if the JavaScript engine is too slow (I’m looking at you, Internet Explorer!).
Do you want to make your dreams come true? Speak them loud. They will.
Usually I don’t comment politics, but I feel this time I should. It’s not because Polish president, his wife and many politicians died in a plane crash (which is a tragic loss in the human sense), but because people lost their minds facing this situation. Citing BBC News: ‘Mr Kaczynski was a controversial figure in Polish politics.’. He was, that’s a fact – before the tragedy only up to 30% of Poles thought he was a good president.
But now everybody seems to praise him and call ‘Polish best leader in the last 20 years (since the fall of communist rule)’. Come on! That’s f**king insane. Maybe he was a good politician, but we DON’T need good politicians, we need good LEADERS! Ones that can unite the nation, not divide it. People who can put country interests before his party and his friends ones, which obviously he didn’t.
You can call it a blasphemy, but that’s the truth, and you can’t deny it.
I don’t like politics subject, but you’re 100% right and anyone who says differently is just lying to himself.
I think it’s natural that people say good things about him now, it just seems wrong to keep insulting someone who has died, especially in such circumstances. That doesn’t mean everyone thinks he was the best Polish leader in the last 20 years, I didn’t hear anyone calling him that – I still think he was the worst one. But this is simply no longer relevant… I think at such moment it’s more appropriate to forget that person’s sins and mistakes and try to remember only the good things he did.
Like Wałęsa said – “I forgive them, though they won’t forgive me now… now I have to ask God for forgiveness, because I made a few mistakes too” – I doubt that Wałęsa now thinks Kaczyński was the best president ever, but that just doesn’t matter anymore.
Well call me a liar but for me he was a good a patriot. A kind of man who was not affraid to loudly state unpopular opinions and say ‘no’ to particular interests of political parties. I think it is a lie to say we knew what kind of man he was as we were given only his medial ‘mask’. I’m affraid not to say I’m proud I voted for him.
Now I only regret that our nation believe in people who were not only his ideological opponents but insulted him openly as a man and now they are talking about respect and unity. How would call this?
I simply hate when companies update privacy policies or other kind of agreements between users and service provider, simply by posting a new version of the agreement. How the **** am I supposed to remember what was in the previous version? That’s either a need to hide something from the public or laziness.
PS) LinkedIn is the latest suspect.
In one of polish talk shows there’s a ‘I like, I don’t like’ series. The topics being presented there are about Poland, or somehow relate to situation in Poland.
So let me say today what I don’t like – it’s the Polish entrepreneurship. In general it’s short sighted, aimed at quick profit, not caring about clients and potential partners. It’s no brainer that its because of our communist and earlier heritage, but it doesn’t mean we can’t change it.
Actually we do as more and more young people who come back from emigration, or grow up without that heavy heritage, show positive business patterns. But every time people (especially young) are arrogant, unwilling to cooperate, thank, congratulate or just share experience, I feel lonely here.
This week my Mac turned 4 (FOUR!) years old. When I bought it, it had plenty of processing power and memory. It haven’t changed since, but my Mac still does well. Currently I’m pushing it to the edge by running 2 web servers, DB server, Safari, Firefox, and WebKit browsers, Windows XP in a VM (with opened IE 7&8), 2 IM clients, Mail, and some utility programs ALL at once. A lot for 2GB of RAM.
That’s an effective way of utilizing computer processing power! :-D
Wow, that’s a lot of time… 4 years ago I didn’t even think I would ever use a Mac… It’s quite possible I hadn’t even seen a Mac before :) (first time I saw one was when one guy at the university bought an iBook in USA and brought it home).
What model do you have?
I’ve just been reading about today’s general strike in Greece. With all due respect, our fellow Greeks, but getting an extra 13th and 14th wage during the year is not considered normal. You are paid for what you do, anything beyond that is a BONUS, something extra not a rule!
Marcin Kulik 11:20 am on July 15, 2010 Permalink |
Hey!
Great stuff. I plan to put my hands on this in near future.
But, do you really need google ads here? I feel like you want to sell me something ;)
Marcin
Jakub Pawlowicz 11:28 am on July 15, 2010 Permalink |
Yup, a must-have for RIAs!
Hey, where do you see ads? I can’t see them, but it’s hosted on WordPress, so maybe they add them somewhere…
Marcin Kulik 10:47 am on July 19, 2010 Permalink
There were some ads under post body, above comments sections. Probably inserted by wordpress. It’s not the first time I’ve seen ads on your blog :)