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Friday, January 20th, 2012
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.
Tags: chrome, firefox, ie, java, selenium
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Thursday, January 19th, 2012
Less than 10, out of hundreds potential, are here at work today, but of course, the guy with an office directly across the hall from me is one of those 10, so I can’t just leave my door open and really crank up the tunes.
Oh well.
At least I finally got ChromeDriver to work, when everything is local. Still can’t figure out what’s wrong with my remote system. One day at a time.
Tags: coincidence, playingwellwithothers, work
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
Yesterday, looking through my budget, I’m seeing a very tight future without some sort of income boost, or cost cutting measures.
Today, my team lead announces she is moving out of state and will be a remote employee, giving up some of her current responsibilities. I of course am filled with the likely naive hope that whomever ends up with said responsibilities will end up with a commensurate bump in income, and said someone will be me. I guess I should figure out what kind of baked goods the managers in charge of deciding what happens next, likes. =)
Tags: change, movement, opportunity, work
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
I’d been kinda worried earlier today, comparing my 4 lines of addition to the document about to be reviewed this afternoon, to other people’s much larger contributions to their equivalent documents. Was wondering what I was missing, that I just couldn’t find more to say. Then I looked at the whole-project design diagram again, and realized the piece I’m working on is proportionally smaller to those other documents I was using for reference, so really I’m in better shape than I thought.
I’d like to think the holiday-fog will soon be lifting from my brain, and the how-far-have-I-yet-to-go-blues will be memory soon enough after.
Tags: comparison, design, documents, work
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Friday, December 30th, 2011
Today is going to be a bad day at our office, for anyone on a diet. We’ve already had bagels and fruit for breakfast, plus the VP wandering around the office with a little red cart full of donuts, and there’s still lunch and the 3pm party yet to go.
I’m glad I did an extra set of crunches this morning. Not enough to make a difference, really, but still a feel-good-exercise =p
Tags: excess, food, free, work
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Friday, November 18th, 2011
Dirty, filthy Windowses.
The drone machines at work, I mean.
Usually I spend 99 percent of my time on the UNIX side of our product, but I’ve been helping out on the hot fix release for this cycle. Today I’ve been going through the machines and cleaning up the left over home directories of the temporary users that are created and destroyed during the test process. For whatever reason, they’ve just left them behind even after the user has been removed from the system. On some machines there were over 2gb’s of dead user-dirs.
filthy windowses.
Tags: cleanup, compare, unix, windows
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
Yesterday’s training session was annoyingly light on the new material, and consisted more of step-by-step DIY demo’ing than actual discovery. Today’s session is like diving head first into a concrete filled pool. The exercises are vague suggestions that often directly contradict something said earlier.
I would have preferred something in the middle for both. I learn best by watching the first time, and then extrapolating from there, assisted by documentation. Oh well.
Tags: annoying, trianing, work
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Thursday, June 9th, 2011
We have a push to production today for the project I work on. My go-live task is to verify the support website is updated correctly, so I’ve been waiting all day for the message that the process is done. The message comes, so I begin my task, and find that the person who sent the message didn’t bother to make sure they’d actually finished the task successfully. EVERY page is a 404, so she didn’t even make a single attempt to verify her work.
GRAR.
Tags: fail, grar, work
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Monday, April 4th, 2011
We use a kanban board at work. Somewhen between friday and monday, someone put a card up in my section, as a highest-priority-customer-affecting-issue, “Get Coffee”, with a number that doesn’t appear in our bug tracking system. No one in our department admits to putting it up there, and I don’t drink actual coffee at all, haven’t for years. I did use to go with my morning breakfast buddy to the nearest Starbucks so he could drink his water down coffee (aka Americano), and I used to be able to get a half-decent hot chocolate, until they dropped the Signature line. Maybe someone from Starbucks corporate broke into the office over the weekend to encourage me to start going again?
I don’t recall doing anything stunningly sleepy last week that would provide a cognitive neighborhood in which to place such a card, as a joke, so I’m really at a loss as to why it’s there.
UPDATE: d’oh, I dunno how I spaced on Friday being april fools, or that 040111 parses into 04-01-11, not 040-111. I have marked the issue as blocked due to Starbucks no longer carrying the Signature hot chocolate.
Tags: coffee, kanban, mystery, why, work
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