May 2011
1 post
Running a Gradle Build in Bamboo
Gradle is an excellent build tool for your projects. I’m really enjoying using it for my new projects, and I love having a full scripting language (Groovy) to write my builds in.
The one issue I had was integrating gradle into my continuous integration tool. I’m using the hosted Atlassian suite, so my continuous integration environment is Bamboo. ...
March 2011
1 post
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Setting Up an Automated Test Using OS X's...
Steps to Create a New Automation Test
First, create a test script to start with and save it to the file system. Here’s a very small example of what the test script will look like. Feel free to start with this:
var target = UIATarget.localTarget();
var view = target.frontMostApp().mainWindow();
var textfields = view.textFields();
if (textfields.length != 1)
{
...
January 2011
2 posts
1 tag
HTML 5 <video>
h.264 v. WebM
Well, the next major battle ground has been set in the war for the internet. Oh, sorry, I’m supposed to inject more civility in my discourse. The next big internet debate is the openness of Google’s WebM video codec versus Apple and Microsoft’s closed h.264 codec.
Is it really just that simple?
Of course not. The issue is a quite a bit more complicated than...
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Web Apps for Blackberry
I’ve recently had the (mis)fortune to work on a mobile application which tried to support Blackberry versions lower than 4.6. This is not fun!
Blackberry browsers prior to 4.6 really do not support web applications. They may render static html alright, but do not try to create an interactive application utilizing JavaScript and CSS.
BlackBerry Device Software 6.0
This browser is leaps...
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Should MS buy Nokia? →
Here’s an interesting discussion of Microsoft buying RIM or Nokia. The author makes a convincing argument about Nokia being a better target. I agree; Microsoft has the mobile OS (Windows Phone 7 looks to be better than Symbian and who knows if/when Meego will be the smartphone platform for Nokia) and Nokia has the distribution channels. I doubt this will happen, but it would make the...
December 2010
2 posts
3 tags
HowTo Setup MarsEdit to use Markdown on Tumblr
It took me a few minutes to get MarsEdit, Tumblr and Markdown all playing well together. Since, I didn’t come across a concise version of setting these three tools up I’m posting the configuration that worked for me. Hopefully this will work for you as well.
Tumblr
Change preference (www.tumblr.com/preferences) “Edit posts using” to Markdown
MarsEdit
Set Default...
