
Observe to Test: Screencasts, Hugs, Selenium, Sauce Labs
Tweet Last Friday Jason Huggins aka @hugs popped into the office to talk about Sauce Labs, a business set up to commercialise the Selenium open source testing framework. Jason is outstanding company- he was showing off arduino-powered 3d plastic gizmos before he even sat down (if you’re looking for a local 3d lazer-cutting shop in […]

Tim Bray’s Schtick: He Likes 3270 Green Screens as UI
So I’m reading Bray’s blog as usual, and I come across his argument against Flash that I see occasionally–namely, that all Flash UI sucks. Why? Here are his words: What’s not to like, then? Well, the user experience, which in my experience is fourth-rate for anything but games; No “Back” button, feaugh. And of the […]

Front-end development with Rails, Visual Studio 2010 – make all #001
In this inaugural episode, I talk with the developers next door to RedMonk Austin about their use of Ruby on Rails as a front-end layer. We spend a lot of time discussing UI toolkit choices and customizing, JavaScript and Ajax coding, using rails as sort of glue-layer to their UI, and heavy GUI development. Additionally, we talk about Pivot and Visual Studio 2010.