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Re: www.ian.dees.name - drain bump

Franklin Webber — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:25:11 -0000

I recently have been thinking about this and I guess it feels like the main motivation behind Tumblr, as an aggregate of all your public actions.

It's what I tend to dislike about Wordpress's traditional paradigm. The 'Post' is the central focus of your site and all the other activities are generally relegated to plugins or side bullets that accompany your webpage. When, for me, the summation of these separate actions are really worthy as 'first class' content citizens.

It tends to make a personal website appear stale, when in actuality you're all over the web making changes, sharing links, etc.

Re: www.ian.dees.name - iphone gui testing

stustern — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:09:44 -0000

Gorilla Logic has just open sourced FoneMonkey, a true record/playback functional testing tool for the iPhone. You can check it out at http://www.gorillalogic.com....

Re: www.ian.dees.name - iphone gui testing

undees — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:30:50 -0000

Hi, Julie. Thanks! Indeed, the technique works with either the simulator or the iPhone. Here's a demo of Cucumber driving a live app:

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: www.ian.dees.name - iphone gui testing

Julie — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:55:29 -0000

Great work, Ian! Is there a way to make it run with the simulator? While cucumber is running? It would provide a great visual for demos, etc. Thanks!

Re: www.ian.dees.name - bacon cucumber sandwich

dees — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:32:13 -0000

well the developer's phone number is from the UK so....shropshire blue?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: www.ian.dees.name - bacon cucumber sandwich

undees — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:55:28 -0000

Well, there is a Ruby project called Cheese (http://rubyforge.org/projec.......

Re: www.ian.dees.name - bacon cucumber sandwich

dees — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:26:02 -0000

i'm confused...what kind of cheese am i supposed to be using?

Re: www.ian.dees.name - iphone gui testing

undees — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:41:15 -0000

Hi, Brian.

Thanks for the link; UISpec looks quite readable. Think I'll give it a try to compare and contrast with Cucumber. Speaking of, I'm about to post more recent Cucumber + iPhone material here. For now, it's at http://slideshare.net/undee....

On the subject of IDE integration... Matt Gallagher has successfully triggered his XML-based test scripts from Xcode. See the section entitled "Auto-Run Build Step" in http://cocoawithlove.com/20.... It should be possible to do something similar with Cucumber.

--Ian

Re: www.ian.dees.name - iphone gui testing

Brian — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:38:26 -0000

This is pretty cool stuff...it would be great if we could use Cucumber within XCode, but I guess we will have to wait for MacRuby support in iPhone development.

In the meantime have you taken a look at UISpec? http://code.google.com/p/ui... - It's an open source BDD framework for iphone ui testing. The only drawback right now is that you have to write your scripts in Objective-C, but this does allow for a fully integrated environment.

Cheers!

Re: www.ian.dees.name - bacon cucumber sandwich

undees — Fri, 29 May 2009 00:58:04 -0000

See? You're as brilliant as you've always told us you are!

Re: www.ian.dees.name - bacon cucumber sandwich

William Li — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:44:42 -0000

Holy Carp! I understood what you just said. Matthias actually managed to really teach me something.

Re: www.ian.dees.name - cucumber for a story

lou — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:19:28 -0000

loving it - keep em' coming!

Re: www.ian.dees.name - fuzzy grad student

Ian Dees — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:39:14 -0000

Testing with Facebook!

Re: apparently, we like lame self-depracating "humor"

undees — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:00:11 -0000

I'm trying to give SWPL the benefit of the doubt, since it's much much worse if it's about anything else....

Re: apparently, we like lame self-depracating "humor"

Evgeniy Dolzhenko — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:49:42 -0000

oh well, you're missing the point in case you think SWPL is about white people

Re: i've written a book

undees — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:12:08 -0000

Hey, John. Thanks!

It will go up as a PDF in a couple of weeks (I hope), with physical books to follow a few months later. It takes time to copy-edit, build an index, print, roll trucks, etc.

Re: i've written a book

John Barney — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:08:47 -0000

Great Success!! Electronic only or will print copies be available? Way to go man - you continue to amaze me.

Your Friend --- John B

Re: i've written a book

Lynn — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:28:04 -0000

w00t!!

Re: omg, lrn 2 capitalism!

Lynne F — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:25:51 -0000

Snort. Weekday evenings are better. No rifraff. And yes, with a family of 4, we DO load up our cart 2 or 3 times a year.

Re: soft in the middle?

Aunt C — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:24:53 -0000

"It has only Just Begun...."

Thing is, before you know it, they will be grown and moved on... Enjoy every little moment, it will never happen again.

This comes from someone that has had all her 'chicks' spread their wings and fly.

Re: one more thing...

John B — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:03:52 -0000

ROTFLOL - now if you had just photoshop'd in the MacBook Air. Great pic!

Re: one more thing...

undees — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:42:54 -0000

Steve Jobs to announce cloning ray at MacWorld Expo tomorrow

Re: born!

Lou — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:36:56 -0000

That's awesome, congrats buddy!

Re: born!

undees — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:24:16 -0000

Hello, Mrs. Dials' class.

Thank you for the kind words! To answer your questions, she has many different little outfits (she is wearing a blue gown with teddy bears right now), and she only cries a little bit.

Have a fun school year. I hear you are a wonderful group of students, and I know you have a great teacher.

Re: born!

mark paget — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:42:48 -0000

Congratulations to all, sorry we didn't make it to the hospital to give you our well wishes. She looks beautiful and everyone happy and healthy. Can't wait to meet her! Love, Mark, Beth, Emma & Chloe Paget