Hyper Gumbo » mis-cognition

They say…

Don — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:56:55 +0000

They say you can get used to anything.

We got new phones at work over the weekend, and with the new system, the main screen of the phone is backlit at all times, whereas the old phones, they only lit up when you were actively using them. As result, each time I see the new phone’s screen out of the corner of my eye, I think a call has come through, but I haven’t managed to hear the ring.

Perhaps in time, I will adjust my ‘notice that’ filter, but given how I still think the sleeve printing on my Horse/House/Tofu shirt, is some sort of schmutz, and try to brush it off, we shall see. I don’t wear that shirt every day.

One Step Forward, Two Steps Side-to-Side

Don — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:52:54 +0000

After going to all the trouble of figuring out Selenium and JUnit, it turns out I was mis-remembering, and it should have been TestNG for my testing framework. d’ohwell, it shouldn’t be too hard to move from one to the other.

Oh Happy Day

Don — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:10:58 +0000

Finally figured out all my Selenium issues. Well, not all of them, in that I still don’t get the Grid system, but I at least know enough about it to know I don’t need it, so that problem is solved in its own way too.

As of now, I’ve got three remote drones, one for IE, one for Firefox, and one for Chrome. I can execute JUnit tests against all three targets, for the webservice running elsewhere.

Finally, I can start thinking about what I actually want to test, without worrying about if I can make it happen.

Hulu Plus is dog food

Don — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:06:58 +0000

They defend the inclusion of advertising in the paid-tier of service by touting its cheapness.

I could buy dog food for a lot cheaper than steak, doesn’t mean I’m going to eat it. At this point, it isn’t even worth free.

Livin in a movie

Don — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:33:44 +0000

It’s a little surreal today, first the governor declares a state of emergency, and now the city is recommending people leave work now, so that they are home before dark. It’s like we expect the zombies and vampires to come out any second now. Will I make the 100 yards to my home?! Only time will tell! Tune in next week for the exciting conclusion. =p

Clippy lives on at Google

Don — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:24:38 +0000

It would seem the geekworld’s favorite helper-to-hate, Clippy, has gotten a job at Google’s GMail division. You can see his influence in the new look, with it’s unhelpful way of showing and hiding buttons, assuming you can’t keep track of who your friends are by name, nor really want to see your big screen monitor actually full of useful information.

Hopefully someone will notice, and fire his ass, before it’s too late =p

I Tried

Don — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:30:20 +0000

I tried to do a good deed for the day. I see more than a few people, over the course of this ‘storm’, waiting at the bus stop outside my window at work, a stop that is closed when Metro is on snow routes. So, I put a sign up in the window that says “Bus Stop Closed”, and it only took this guy about 10 minutes before he looked up an noticed it.

Coordination

Don — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:03:15 +0000

Yesterday, noticed more than a couple people waiting at bus stops that were closed due to the lines that served those stops being on snow routes.
This morning, I notice that the bus maintenance people are helpfully clearing snow from the same, closed, stops. I pity the sucker that thinks they are open because they’ve been cleared.

Ah Miss-Spellings

Don — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:46:41 +0000

No, not Tori.

A cousin/uncle/whatever, about a niece or daughter…a little girl he feels nothing but familial love for, I’m sure, he posts a pic of her to facebook, with the intent of captioning her as ornery, as in precocious and troublesome in a cute sort of way, but instead calls her honry, which at first glance makes it look like he’s calling a tweenager ‘horny’.

Probably not his intent.

Oh, of course

Don — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:02:28 +0000

Today’s Selenium-now-I-get-it-ism: The Selenium IDE can export test cases in Java, it just hides them under 3 different flavors of JUnit, and one flavor of TestNG. This is confusing, because they call out C#, Ruby, and Python by name, and I’m pretty sure you can use TestNG with all of those languages. I know I’ve used it with C#.