Blog

Aaron and I got back last week from the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference, aka Semtech2009, and after four solid days of twittering and forgetting people’s names and awkward conversation, I figured I should comment on what was cool and what was forgettable before everything shifts from the first category to the second. The basic conference elements [...]
Read More

Every person who writes, whether for business or otherwise, should read this essay. Though his focus is on political language, I believe Orwell’s arguments are equally valid for almost all business-related writing. Too long, didn’t read? This is the executive summary: Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing [...]
Read More

I’m a somewhat enthusiastic fan of Selenium these days. It works consistently well in most situations, and it provides some mechanisms for “going deep” when its more regular API calls prove insufficient. Recently, I was testing an application we’re writing that has a front-end built using the ExtJS framework. Normally, with a bit of XPath-fu, testing [...]
Read More