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Archive for October, 2009

Install Cygwin In C:/ and You Will Suffer Eternal Damnation (T or F?)

October 24th, 2009 By admin

I might be playing with fire, but I always install Cygwin at the top level directory of my C: drive — even though the nice people from Cygwin tell you (right at the beginning of the install) that they “recommend you do NOT use the root of your hard drive as the Cgywin root.” Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Cygwin | 2 Comments »

A 99% Successful Attempt to Get Selenium Tests Running in Continuous Integration using Maven and Cargo

October 24th, 2009 By admin

A colleague and I have been trying to create a build procedure that runs Selenium tests against a Grails application. Our end goal is to ensure that we can test our app’s Ajax functionality using our target browser in a continuous integration environment.  [[ UPDATE - we have achieved success, please see mailing list reference]] Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Build Automation, Grails, Maven, Selenium, Test Automation | 3 Comments »

How to dump out debugging info for nodes in a JQuery select list.

October 21st, 2009 By admin

In my last two projects I’ve had the opportunity to use JQuery
– a very cool library of utilities that simplifies the tasks of traversing HTML documents, handling events, and adding AJAX to your web pages.

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Posted in JQuery | No Comments »

A Groovy Script to Determine the SVN Revision Number of Your Source Base

October 6th, 2009 By admin

When you encounter a bug in one of your applications, are you able to
quickly determine the revision number of the source code base from which
the application was built ?  Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Build Automation, Groovy | 4 Comments »

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