RSS

| Atom

<< April 4, 2006 | Home | April 6, 2006 >>

Links

Home | About Me | my del.icio.us | Julie's Blog

Photos

Ads by Google

Tags

Recent Blog Entries

Using deli.icio.us on your iPhone or iPod touch
My lovely wife got me an iPod touch for my birthday, and I really like it. Since it has WiFi and the safari browser, its like having a tiny computer. I have been using it to check email (both through the gmail web page and the IMAP client that comes wi...
Economic advice
I was reading a set of questions and answers with Robert Riech, and really liked this one: Q: What should the U.S. government change in its current fiscal policies in order to lead by example?A: The federal budget should be divided between past obligat...
Future Beachfront property
Happened to run across this site - firetree flood maps in which a guy has mashed up elevation data from NASA with Google maps, and can show (very roughly) what would be flooded if the oceans rose by differing amounts. The link above shows Houston (an a...
How to explicitly fail a FIT test from a DoFixture
Back when I was at DataCert, my buddy Jeff Palermo wrote a blog post on this topic. Since then, I have switched languages from C# to Java, so here is the same thing, translated to Java. import fit.Fixture; import fit.Parse; import fitlibrary.DoFixture...
Continuous Integration and Testing Conference coming to Texas
The Continuous Integration and Testing Conference is coming to Texas! The folks doing this conference (Paul Julius of Thoughtworks and Jeffrey Frederick of Agitar) have done 2 of these before, and all the reports I have heard have been good. I just reg...
The Old New Thing : The .Default user is not the default user
Something I needed to know the other day, setting up the screensaver on my electronic photo frame (it runs Windows). The Old New Thing : The .Default user is not the default user
My first experience with WATIR
I got an actual test plan for a new feature today - a list of manual test steps. I've been wanting to try out WATIR (Web Application Testing In Ruby) after learning about it from one of its creators, Bret Pettichord, who I had the pleasure of working w...
Using version control with FitNesse, revisited
I have written before about using subversion to provide source control for FitNesse tests, but we eventually abandoned that process because of difficulties with using the refactoring support built into FitNesse. We moved to a system where all edits to...
Playing Blog Tag
It was so nice of Jeremy to include me in the game. The hard part for me will be coming up with 5 people I know who have blogs and who haven't already been tagged! Here's my list: I consider myself an above-average woodworker. I used to do a lot more ...
Fun with GeoTagging
I've recently started playing with geotagging - adding location information to my photos. The basic idea is that you have a GPS keeping track of your location while you are taking photos, and then when you get back you can look through the GPS logs to ...

Recent Responses

Re: Installing Subversion Server on Windows
With regard to installing subversion as a service under Windows - the latest versions of the subversion svnserve daemon can run as a service, so the wrapper I referred to in part 3 is no longer necessary. See this link for details on how to make it wor...
Re: Installing Subversion Server on Windows
How do you make subversion run as a service? Your link is in part 3 dead. Ther rest was very helpful :) Cheers
Re: My first experience with WATIR
Testing comments on release 2.0.1
Re: My first experience with WATIR
Nice rundown. You have a knack for getting things working.
Re: Installing Subversion Server on Windows
Nice tutorial. If you're looking for an automated way to do this, check out Brian Kohrs' Blog entry called "Less Than Mere-Moments Installation of Subversion" http://blog.briankoh...

del.icio.us

zoe keating: avant cello
featured on the RadioLab podcast. Cool stuff!
Kids Inspiring Kids
A non-profit charity helping orphans in Uganda
Third Coast Martial Arts - Austin, Texas school of Tae Kwon Do, Tai Chi, and Capoeira - Home
where Jada and I are taking class
ChangeDetection - Know when any web page changes
I set up an account here - steve.donie+changedetection
AirBed & Breakfast: Better Than a Cheap Hotel
stay with people, have people stay with you.

Derek Cicerone Installing...: heat.exe - making setup easier

Ran across a cool new tool today! If you are releasing your software on Windows using MSI files, you really ought to know about WiX. And this looks like a most excellent tool to get you started in that direction. Derek Cicerone Installing...: heat.exe - making setup easier

April 2006
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
						1
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
30
Mar \| Today \| May