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Watir and Selenium

j3r3m7 — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:05:27 +0000

It looks like Selenium has grown up since I last played with it a year or two ago. I’m a big fan of watir and use this to regression test my applications but have been recently reintroduced to Selenium. Along with the nifty IDE it adds the concept of load testing using Amazon EC2 instances… now that’s a smart idea and I’m looking forward to giving it a whirl.

Merging Pdfs in Snow Leopard Preview

j3r3m7 — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:36:08 +0000

If you’re like me you frequently merge pdfs in OS X preview. Moving to Snow Leopard caused me a few minutes grief as dragging and dropping one pdf into the sidebar of another pdf didn’t merge the two… it simply opened both in the same preview window.

To achieve the merge in Snow Leopard you now have to drag the 2nd pdf onto the pdf icon on the sidebar. This merges the 2nd pdf into the 1st one and you can then save the original with the added content. Easy, if a little less obvious than before.

Snow Leopard Upgrade, Easy!

j3r3m7 — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:30:29 +0000

So I bought Snow Leopard and went through the upgrade process in under an hour… it took the following steps 1) insert disc 2) click install 3) confirm… job done. So far so good as I now have Exchange integration into mail, ical etc. Good by and good riddance to Entourage!

Nant to Rake

j3r3m7 — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:39:22 +0000

So I’m never happier than when I’m creating a cheeky Nant script to automate our database builds, deploy to test, etc… Now my ruby skills are improving I’m hoping that Rake will be my ruby Nant

No 3g on Iphone?

j3r3m7 — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:23:53 +0000

If you’re having email problems on your iPhone make sure to check that 3G is enabled under settings-general-network-enable 3G. It might be that your email problems are due to you turning off 3G and forgetting to turn it back on…

Mendips MTB

j3r3m7 — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:40:26 +0000

So finally got the bike in the car and did some mountain biking in the Mendips this afternoon. As usual I picked the wrong route up the hill so ended up walking most of it but did find the main route down the hill which was good fun. The top of the mendips always looks a bit god-foresaken when I drive over it on the way to work and it didn’t dissapoint today.

One of the only guides I found on the internet suggested it would be soggy and it was almost too soggy to pedal through on the flat and uphill sections. Time wise I got up the hill in an hour and down in 10 minutes… the 10 minutes being the fun bit ;-)

If you fancy having a go here is the Mendips Trail Map pdf from the Mendip Hills AONB Service.

iPhone Roaming Rippoff

j3r3m7 — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:32:25 +0000

Ouch! Just had the O2 UK bill in from my recent week in Ireland. Even though I followed the recommended ways to minimise my data costs I still racked up a 36 quid bill in 7 days.

How O2 can charge this I have no idea and brings fond memories back of using my trusty 7290 Blackberry around the world in 2006 where it would eak out full-time email for pennies a day instead of pounds.

So here’s what I did, maybe you can suggest where I went wrong: (1) Turned of 3g, (2) set data roaming to off (3) when needing data I’d switch roaming on, get the data, then turn it off!

So not only do you have to nanny the thing you still get a chunky bill, though not as large as some other iphone roamers.

Dakar Rally 2009

j3r3m7 — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:15:12 +0000

The best week of motorsport each year is the Dakar Rally, covered by Eurosport in the UK. Today’s route went through some amazing scenery in Argentina and showed quite how difficult taking the Race Touaregs up near vertical dunes can be. Tomorrow sees the competitors head up over the Andes and towards the Pacific coast. They should go over 4000m, when we were travelling I felt distinctly dodgy at 2500m so it will be interesting to see whether the altitude affects the drivers and cars.

A new kind of muck

j3r3m7 — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:04:52 +0000

So I thought that at least one day this week would bring decent driving conditions but no chance… Monday was a combination of water and ice particles, Tuesday brought frozen cow muck in the farmyard (a new type for me), yesterday was fluffy snow and today was back to the plain old mendips sludge. I think I can conclude that Somerset has mostly poor road conditions ;-)

Drizzle and Mist

j3r3m7 — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:05:13 +0000

Daily mendip weather update: Lots of drizzle and plenty of mist. Back in the fast car so enjoyed the drive even though the roads were soggy.