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JavaScript Unit Testing
Recent announcements for Windows 8 development is not including JavaScript with HTML5 has opened up Windows development for more developers. I wanted to see where testing for JavaScript is standing and was surprised at the variety of frameworks out there. Back in the days when I was trying to do web testing with WatiN, it was painful, especially when a browser had to be loaded for those tests. My interest was around JavaScript testing w/o need to load a browser. QUnit looked very good, but it still required an actual browser. Also, in a CI scenario, I wanted to be able to use a command line/tool execution style.
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Shana Tova
It’s 5772 New (Jewish) Year tomorrow. I wish everyone Shana Tova.
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Not Invented Here Syndrome – Case for Having it
In general, NIHS (Not Invented Here Syndrome) is a negative for your core business. Trying to re-invent something that already exists and probably does the job 10 times better. But what happens when an existing tool doesn’t do it better, or it is not customizable to your business, or it’s something that you’d pay wa-a-a-y too much just to use a fraction of what it can?
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Windows 8 – First Impression
First impression is always important. I have decided to install Windows 8 in a virtual environment. Even though running it “natively” on a hardware is a better experience, I still wanted to see how well the hardware requirement was slimed down. Also, I have a very old idea of working in a VM box only, but it was always not a simple goal to achieve with Windows and Visual Studio being such a RAM / recourses pigs. This time around things looked very…. impressing.
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Curing Singletonitis
A few years ago I have blogged about Singletonitis. Another place, different people, yet the same problem appears again – singletonitis. The issues I have outlined back then where
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Windows 8
Watching Build event I couldn’t not to smile. Microsoft is not always getting it right, but it looks like this time around they bet on a stronger horse. When .NET was released, ASP.NET was an attempt to bring desktop development to the web. Not the best approach. This time around, web development is coming to the desktop. Sounds interesting, and quite promising.
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Fat Me
What would I look like with excessive weight… Hilarious! Another reason to watch eating habits and exercising
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TFS
There’s no perfect software. If it would exist, we’d never build a newer one.