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Espresso Heaven is back
We 2Pathians include superb coffee on our list of passions. While our Futurmat Rimini Espresso machine had served us faithfully for a few years, once our fearless leader Aaron made the decision to move the growing company to new office space in the Arthur Erickson-designed Waterfall Building off Granville Island, I’m sure it’s days were [...]
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Writing Brittle (Yet Useful!) Acceptance Tests for ExtJS Applications Using Selenium’s getEval()
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 [...]
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Just the stuff please
In April, 2008, I attended the “No Fluff, Just Stuff” in the guise of the North West Software Symposium, in Seattle, Washington, USA. For those not in the know, the NFJS series is aimed at tech savvy developers interested in expanding their knowledge and exposure to interesting developments in the land of Agile/Java (predominantly). With [...]
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August 2008 2Paths Team Event
Well, this is officially my first blog ever! It feels a bit weird putting my thoughts out there for all to see.
Anyhow, gotta get with the wave of the future, or present, or whatever…
So, having just started working at 2Paths in July, I was pretty excited when I heard we were going to have [...]
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Hudson - too easy
Continuous integration is a lovely thing. Automated testing is also lovely as you can see where things work or not almost instantly in different environments and scenarios.
Over the years I have used a few CI servers and tools - most notably, CruiseControl (Java and .NET) and Continuum (from the Maven crew). These systems, whilst useful, [...]
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You know you’re about to make it big when…
the defense industry uses your technology. The funny thing about the semantic web conference was the vendor showcases. I went to a few, where a given semantic technology toolkit vendor would showcase how one can make use of their tool or tools. The thing that struck me was that each and every one that I [...]
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Semantic Web Conference 2008
I had the chance to attend the semantic web conference that what held in San Jose May 18th to 22nd. Before I go any further, there may be many of you who are scratching your head thinking “What is the semantic web?” Dictionary.com defines semantics as the following:
Linguistics.
the study of meaning.
the study of linguistic development [...]
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No Fluff Just Stuff, April 2008
With forecasts of April snow, our 2Paths contingent of two headed off at the crack of dawn one Friday for Bellevue, WA to attend the No Fluff Just Stuff - Pacific Northwest Software Symposium (NFJS). Having only spent 10 minutes at the border (whew!), we arrived early enough in the Seattle area to fit [...]
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You got mono!
One of our recent projects has a .NET backend (with a JavaScript frontend). As we use macs for our dev platform, this means dual booting or using parallels in order to fire up Visual Studio to work on and debug the backend using the embedded ASP.NET server … until now.
The other day, out of curiosity, [...]
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Another day in the office
We try to get out of the office every month or so for a bit of R&R - kayaking, climbing, boarding. Geoff put this video together:
nice production work Geoff!
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