http://kapanka.com (Take with food to improve tolerability) Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:57:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Read either: http://developer.apple.com/internet/serverside/modssl.html -or- http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20041129143420344 Notes about problems with either will follow. http://kapanka.com/2009/12/installing-self-signed-ssl-cert-on-os-x-snow-leopard/ 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, ... http://kapanka.com/2009/04/office-contest-need-ur-halp-win-some-money/ Greetings! I was given the task of building what appeared like a relatively simple table for work, but in the end it turned out to have quite a few challenges, and I figured I'd document how I did it in case someone else wanted to give it a try (or I ... http://kapanka.com/2009/03/a-complex-flexible-table-layout/ I've written a few lines of code that you can use to pass a URL or the browser type you want to use from the command line, using Python.  At the bottom of your Python-based selenium test, you can replace the "if __name__ ==" part with the following code: if __name__ ... http://kapanka.com/2008/12/customizing-selenium-rc-to-take-command-line-args/ OK, this one's been driving me nuts, mostly because it took the "automated" part out of automated testing, which basically defeats the purpose.  If I can't run an automated test, I am much more prone to avoid running them, and therefore not test, and therefore introduce bugs. The Problem: The problem is ... http://kapanka.com/2008/12/selenium-rc-firefox-and-the-self-signed-ssl-cert/ I learned of a new handy command while at the SF Apple Store getting my laptop fixed (long story).  Have you ever been copying a lot of files in the Finder, and left the room to make tea, watch a movie, or go to bed? (Yes, THAT much data?!) only ... http://kapanka.com/2008/12/mac-os-xs-ditto-command/ Hi and welcome back.  This blog is turning into Spanky's Simple Steps for Starting Services!  See, I always spend all this time searching around for how to do things that I think should be really simple.  In the end, they usually are really simple, but nobody seems to document things ... http://kapanka.com/2008/12/building-mysql-on-mac-os-x-leopard/ I hope you enjoyed Friday's post on Getting Started with Selenium.  Today I spent some time messing about with Selenium RC, which I'd really like to use because it allows me to write the tests in Python. My real need here is to add a smidge of programming to my test.  ... http://kapanka.com/2008/12/selenium-rc/ [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="260" caption="Eclipse IDE"][/caption] Eclipse is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) written in Python that I use for my Python projects.  I was turned on to it by Sasha Vinčić several years ago at a LovelySystems SnowSprint in Austria.  Without his help, I would probably never have given it ... http://kapanka.com/2008/12/eclipse-for-python-development/ [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Se: Atomic Number 34"][/caption] Selenium is a tool that makes your life easier if you're a web developer by allowing you to write automated tests for your website.  Selenium basically remote controls your browser using JavaScript, allowing you to script a set of actions and verify the ... http://kapanka.com/2008/12/getting-started-with-selenium/