Coming back to reading, blogging, programming, doing research, listening to music, and all that stuff I used to do a lot just a few months ago. Ah, and meeting friends. Missed you guys. That’s been a hectic period. First of all, by the end of May I was offered a position of the Director of [...]
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A few things to remember when trying to do your job
Here are a few credos I collected. At first glance the list below may seem pretty obvious, however it’s good to have a look at it from time to time. Especially, when losing hope, feeling like wasting your time, or seriously considering career in gardening. Remember that everyone has priorities (respect). Let people do their [...]
Building project management software of my dreams
Currently, partly based on my experiences both as a project manager and a developer, I started writing a piece of software that hopefully, at some point, will make my life a lot easier (and would be useful to other people as well). The project is called pm360. 360° comes from advertising business. It means that [...]
Web application in 24 hrs
So I came up with this idea of building web application in 24 hours experiment. Task was as follows: come up with an idea, think of any innovative use, build it and deploy. Registering domain name, drawing UI, designing model layer, setting up server, writing code, testing and all the usual stuff took… 15 hours, [...]
Testing web applications #1
A short summary of tools for functional testing. That’s first part of my research on automation in web development. Project Website Type Configuration Key advantages Canoo WebTest http://webtest.canoo.com/ Manual assertions Groovy, XML Straighforward and extensible, easy data importing. Celerity http://celerity.rubyforge.org/ Manual assertions JRuby Simplicity. HtmlUnit http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/ Manual assertions JUnit Low-level, extensibility. Jameleon http://jameleon.sourceforge.net/ Manual assertions [...]
Automating with… Screenshots?
This thing is absolutely awesome. It gives me the feeling of living in the 21st century and shows how we are going to interact with computers in the near future. Well, as soon as it gets “production-ready” and voice recognition is applied. But that’s a different story. So what is it all about? Let’s say [...]
Some Django stuff
A few Django 1.1 functions someone may find useful. Project management django.utils.version.get_svn_revision def get_svn_revision(path=None): “”" Returns the SVN revision in the form SVN-XXXX, where XXXX is the revision number. Returns SVN-unknown if anything goes wrong, such as an unexpected format of internal SVN files. If path is provided, it should be a directory whose SVN [...]
Being agile doesn’t mean being relaxed
Some people think that doing things “agile” means all you need is: a client that will never get pissed off, a set of loose requirements and eternity for development work. These people are wrong. If you think I’m lying, you belong to the same group of people, what implies that you’re wrong as well. As [...]