Bunk and Rambling

Working in the ThoughtWorks’ offices in Sydney, you talk about all types of stuff; web sites, new technologies, programming languages, social responsibility, movies. I guess that is like many offices. However, a couple ThoughtWorkers that have come through the office recently have recommended twitter. While I was initially tempted to sign up to yet another web site, I decided to try a different approach and create a microblog of my own. After all I have my own web space, why not use it for my own microblog? It might even be a toe in the water for a decentralized approach to Twitter.

If you want to subscribe to my microblog, you will have to do so with the RSS feed available here as I have decided to keep this separate from my main blog, to help separate out the different kinds of content.

A few months back, I converted a large set of ruby selenium tests to using selenium-rc and rspec. Unfortunately the changes didn’t stick, mainly due to a lack of ruby debugging support in our primary development environment, Intellij 6. The idea has stayed at the forefront of my mind since that time and it was great to stumble upon Kerry Buckley’s blog on selenium-rc and rbehave. In my opinion, the type of approach to testing that he discusses is an absolute necessity if we expect automated functional testing to go mainstream.