gyrmination

My 6-year old laptop is still puttering along. Recently updated the kernel, and had to rebuild the wireless driver. The card is an Asus wl-107. The latest beta of the rt2500 driver doesn’t work with recent kernels; you need to grab a nightly snapshot. To get the card to work (as opposed to simply flashing [...]

I’ve recently been working on a cross-browser javascript profiler I call jsprofile. It’s finally beginning to take shape. The main idea was to be able to profile javascript in IE in addition to Firefox, as Firefox already has the excellent Firebug extension going for it. The main driver for wanting to profile in IE was [...]

There are three main changes in this release. First, the arguments in UI element argument lists will now appear in alphabetical order. This gives some consistency and makes long strings easier to read. Second, the fuzzy matching algorithm (if I may use so fancy a word) now considers a page element to match a defined [...]

I’ve been quietly releasing some minor bugfixes for UI-Element. The release today adds a keys() method intended to simplify defining defaultValues for UI-Elements. It returns the keys of an object as a list of strings. Also, elements defined with a leading underscore will not be considered as bona fide UI elements. This is to facilitate [...]

As we make strides to automating the web at work, I caught myself asking myself an innocuous question: What incremental improvements can be made to Selenium UI-Element? Defining elements, especially for more complex pages, takes considerable effort. I wondered if some simple enhancements could make the task a bit easier. But then I stopped myself. [...]