You Can’t Beat The Price

Posted August 17th, 2010 by spanky

Burning Man is free.

Mozilla (Firefox) Accessibility vs Design vs Me

Posted July 2nd, 2010 by spanky

Greetings again.  Today's rant post is about Firefox and CSS and Accessibility/Usability. The problem: Users (and QA) complaining about the dotted line that appears around links and form elements (buttons, submit, checkboxes, etc) in Firefox.  This line is usually just inside of the bounding box.  The line appears "on focus" and "on click", or ...

Why Twitterrific Failed

Posted June 25th, 2010 by spanky

I am SO sad.  I love Twitterriffic.  It was the first Twitter client I used and every attempt to replace it has brought me back to it. Sure, I am admittedly addicted to the Tweeting bird sound, but that's not all.  It's clean, fast and uncluttered.  Despite missing some MAJOR features (like Retweet. Hello?!) I ...

Apple Can Eat A Bag of Dicks

Posted June 24th, 2010 by spanky

If you know me well, you know that I'm essentially an Apple Fanboy. I mean, I own an AppleTV for crying out loud. (It sucks, BTW).  But you also know that I'm not blind to Apple's faults.  For example, I routinely go off about OS lockdown and carrier lock on the iPhone, the endlessly shifting ...

Installing Self-Signed SSL cert on OS X Snow Leopard

Posted December 7th, 2009 by spanky

How to generate and install a self-signed SSL certificate on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Office contest: Need ur halp, win some money!

Posted April 14th, 2009 by spanky

Hey gang! We're having a little contest here at the office, and if you participate, you can win some money. We're doing some testing of our product FUZE Meeting, and if you'll agree to give it a try and participate in a meeting, it'd be really helpful. It's free, totally painless, and won't take ...

A complex, flexible table layout

Posted March 25th, 2009 by spanky

A quick little walkthrough of how I set up this seemingly simple table. It has some hidden complexities that are easily taken care of with some planning.

Customizing Selenium RC to take command line args

Posted December 30th, 2008 by spanky

Customizing Selenium RC to take a few arguments to facilitate testing multiple environments or switching browsers.

Selenium RC, Firefox, and the Self-Signed SSL Cert

Posted December 30th, 2008 by spanky

How to use self-signed SSL certs with Selenium RC

Mac OS X’s Ditto Command

Posted December 23rd, 2008 by spanky

A new handy command line tool called ditto