http://kapanka.com (Take with food to improve tolerability) Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:54:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Every year, I hear some dicksquat make some uninformed shitpile of a comment about how Burning Man is so expensive.  This recalls a conversation I once had very drunk and very early in the morning on the Black Rock with Cowboy Bob, and I figured I'd just put this out ... http://kapanka.com/2010/08/you-cant-beat-the-price/ 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 ... http://kapanka.com/2010/07/mozilla-firefox-accessibility-vs-design-vs-me/ 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 ... http://kapanka.com/2010/06/why-twitterrific-failed/ 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 ... http://kapanka.com/2010/06/apple-can-eat-a-bag-of-dicks/ 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/