These are notes on how to integrate Selenium tests into a Jenkins-based continuous integration setup. Since I had next to no experience with either project, there are several moving parts, and there are many different ways to achive this goal, I decided to write up my notes. Note also that until very recently, Jenkins was known as Hudson; in the interests of being forward-thinking I'm going to refer to it by its new name.At work...

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A while back I read a great post by Alex Payne, which hit very close to home for me, about his periodic need to consider switching away from Apple. I've had a similar storied history of using both OSes. I was first a long-time Mac user. Then after OSX came out and I used it for a while I realized the parts I really cared about were the UNIX-y bits, so I ran Ubuntu for...

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I've recently started hacking on a small single-page app to try and get on top of the wonderful Sammy JavaScript framework. A natural fit for storing data is CouchDB, which I also have no prior experience with, so I needed to also jump into that. Since it talks HTTP and JSON it's very easy to get started with: I threw together this quick cheatsheet for making CRUD operations to CouchDB with curl. This is basically...

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I've just spent some time finally getting around to investigating client-side JavaScript templating. Prior to this none of the projects I've done have managed to cross the web app event horizon -- that point at which a lot of page assembly is done in the browser, you have to maintain a lot of state, your code become complex enough that readability is becoming a concern, etc. and the traditional web "site" technique of building pages...

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Now that I've reached somewhat of a first milestone with mysideproject-slash-startup Dojominder, I thoughtI'd jot down some notes on what I've learned about the bootstrapping processthus far. These have mostly been stated first or reiteratedelsewhere so this is more of a reminder to myself— I now know from experience that people that have said similar things areboth smart and right, and thus are worth listening to in the future.OK, most obvious things first. I am...

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