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Monthly Archives: January 2007

The wonders of Selenium-IDE

I just finished writing a bunch of tests with Selenium-IDE to test our UI and I feel good. While playing with Selenium-IDE you feel a pleasing sensation because it’s just the one you’re looking for.

Selenium-IDE is distributed as a simple extension to our beloved browser. After the installation you can open the program in the [...]

Playing with django.test

This morning I poked around the Django testing framework and altough is definitely usable as a simple testing framework (unittest and doctest) it lacks a massive fixture framework (like Rails for instance).

I also have some random problems using test.Client() for POST resulting in some HTTP 500 response instead of 200.

In the meantime I tried using [...]

Google groups is flawed

I kinda like the new interface but I just found an annoying flaw in the application preventing me to reach the single NNTP messages.

As an example try go on the it.comp.lang.python newsgroup and search for author:Alex bagel. This query is supposed to retrieve a wonderful post Alex Martelli made about his life in Google but [...]

The state of the computer book market

Tim O’Reilly published his analysis about the market of computer books’ sales.

With this kinds of trends you can have a feeling about what leads in the market categories and what doesn’t.

I’m not surprised seeing Ruby (+53%) ahead of Python (+37%) and Perl (-21%), nor to see how books about the web design and development are [...]

Firebug rocks

Firebug is a very good piece of software, and that’s not a common thing. So thanks Joe for coding and releasing it as opensource.

This is really the best tool every web developer should ask for!