

Windmill is an Open Source AJAX Web UI Testing framework that was originally built to automate testing for the Chandler Server Project at OSAF.

Today I thought I’d talk about a neat design pattern that doesn’t seem to get much love: the Properties Pattern . In its fullest form it’s also sometimes called the Prototype Pattern.

Blackbird offers a dead-simple way to log messages in JavaScript and an attractive console to view and filter them.

Blackbird offers a dead-simple way to log messages in JavaScript and an attractive console to view and filter them.

Suggests there are parallels between programming and “normal” writing, using extracts from The Elements of Style. Comments point out some differences too.

“RailsXLS is a plugin to generate Excel files from a .rxls view. It uses a Java Bridge to talk to the Jakarta POI library.”

“For this posting, which is going to be very long, I want to go through my own perspective on code. In particular, on how I see it’s internal structure and why I think it can be normalized. It’s a long, and often painful argument, but without people understanding the foundations I have no really good way of just boiling this down into nice little bits of advice. Sorry.”