explanation of how Hudson parses email addresses for notifications, from the comments: "it just grabs the subversion user id used by the developer which checked in the code. It then appends the default user email suffix as defined in the email section of Hudson's system configuration. "

how to install version 2.0 of ASIHTTPRequest, into your XCode project

I completely missed that YUI blog used my photo of Douglas. Thanks!

Outside of MacPorts or Fink, there is no way to install fortune for Mac OSX, other than compiling it from source. Fortunately that is very simple.

"Control-R (reverse history search) not working in irb (ruby interactive shell), which was using the new libedit library. The solution to this particular deficiency is very simple -- just configure libedit by editing a file named .editrc in your home directory."

on Time Capsule, I had to enable NAT port forwarding for Personal Web Sharing, before I could see the CocoaHTTPServer running on my iPhone

like Selenium, but for Android

" In a highly loaded virtualized system, you need to be careful with the problem of lost clock ticks. If a guest OS misses clock ticks for whatever reason, it will perceive time as passing slower than in actuality. "

"Windmill is a web testing tool designed to let you painlessly automate and debug your web application."

an interactive command-line Web browser

user agent as DSL

includes config for the MaxQ play-and-record functional testing tool (really just a Java proxy server that writes logs in a DSL)

Play-and-Record Web Functional Test Tool, as command-line DSL. This is a Java proxy server that simply listens, and records each HTTP transaction as a script.

Later these scripts can be played back against any URL.

Web browser as CLI

Web browser as DSL

Dave Thomas, author of "The Pickaxe Book" on Twitter's shift of their middle tier from Ruby/Rails to Scala. Afaik the UI is still Rails.

"Instead of defending Ruby when it's clearly not an appropriate solution, let's think about things the other way around.

"The good folks at Twitter started off with Ruby because they wanted to get something running quickly, and they wanted to experiment. And Ruby gave them that. And, what's more, Ruby saw them through at least two rounds of phenomenal growth. Could they have done it in another language? Sure. But I suspect Ruby, despite the occasional headache, helped them get where they are now. "

"This article introduces you to unit testing with OCUnit—a unit testing framework for Objective-C that integrates with Xcode. Step by step, we'll walk through how to write automated OCUnit tests for an Xcode project."

Also, hey, I thought xUnit originate with JUnit, but turns out it comes from SmallTalk's SUnit.

IM IN UR IPHONEZ, STANDURDIZIN UR SOARZ CODEZ

Selling bookmarklets as paid apps on the app store.

"When encoding the contents of a CFDictionary, each member is encoded by placing the dictionary key in a
<key> tag and immediately following it with the corresponding value in the appropriate tag from the ta-ble table
ble above."

how to merge 2 git repositories

See "Issue 2, August 2009," iPhone, Meet Cucumber

Git binaries for OSX snow leopard

CoRD is a very slick Windows remote desktop client for Mac. It "just works."

"For each commit to this repository, Unfuddle will perform an HTTP post against the provide Callback URL "

This is the iphone testing framework and application which Ian Dees demoed / presented at OSCON 2009. It includes both the objective-c and the Ruby sources shown in the presentation.

predates his presentation at OSCON2009

I guess since brominet is a fork, the installation instructions for bromine will work?

video walkthru of cucumber

on presenter-first development

A very nice introduction to Cucumber.

provides an interface for OSX / iPhone / Objective-C components, in Ruby

A really, really clean markup generator in Ruby.

not the openqa one

describes using an "ad hoc API" to drive an iPhone functional test harness called Brominet

The graphs in these slides, are from 1981.

The IEEE standard for Software Unit Testing