Bloody Sunday- (Found July 15, 2008 ) The leader of god's own country himself sings the great U2 song.http://nohn.net/blog/view/id/bloody_sunday Selenium extension for PHPUnit has arrived.- (Found July 15, 2008 ) The Selenium Extension for PHPUnit has arrived.http://nohn.net/blog/view/id/selenium_phpunit Firefox 2 changed to the worse- (Found July 15, 2008 ) Example 1: Closing Tabs In Firefox 1.5 it was possible to close tabs with the mouse without having to move the cursor to each tab. In Firefox 2, the right corner of the tab bar got a new functionality to list all tabs. It seems, this functionality can't be changed. To close a tab, you have to move the cursor to the right corner of each tab. (Yes, I know CTRL-T) Example 2: Clearing Private Data In...http://nohn.net/blog/view/id/firefox2_uglyness PHP on Cruise - Assuring compatibility with new PHP versions- (Found July 15, 2008 ) Assuring compatibility with new PHP versions is not always easy: Features are added and changed in minor versions, bugs you didn't even know they exist and having been open for years "suddenly" get fixed. Sometimes BC breaks are inevitable. On the other hand there are no bug fix-only or security fix-only releases, so you are more or less forced to regularly update your PHP. Assuring compatibility however is easy with a little help of CruiseControl as long as you have...http://nohn.net/blog/view/id/php_on_cruise Changing the ROMs of a Nedap e-voting computer in 60 seconds- (Found July 15, 2008 ) http:www.youtube.comwatchv=EowKalRT3lchttp://nohn.net/blog/view/id/hacking_nedap Ligatus DirectAds is live- (Found July 15, 2008 ) With DirectAds, we launched our self service tool some days ago. In short, Ligatus is a performance marketing network (this means, you pay per performance i.e. clicks or leads, basically like Google Adwords, just better), delivering around 3 bn. ad impressions per month. So if you like to advertise in Germany, sign up, we're looking forward to your feedback!http://nohn.net/blog/view/id/ligatus_directads_is_live MySQL & Skoll DCQA- (Found July 15, 2008 ) On GTAC 2006 (which was called LTAC in those days), I met Adam Porter, professor at UMD and heard his talk about his project Skoll. Skoll is a system for continuously assuring the quality of software under different configurations while intelligently choosing which to run and thus basically saving time. Amazing stuff! During that time, MySQL was looking for an easy way to integrate more people from their community into their QA process and started the MySQL Build...http://nohn.net/blog/view/id/mysql_and_skoll_distributed_continuous_quality_assurance GTAC 2007- (Found July 15, 2008 ) This year's Google Testing Automation Conference ended last Saturday. The people and talks were even more interesting that on last year's conference. Thanks to Allen, Amy and Susan for organizing such a great event! The talks are online: As well some official pictures (and unofficial ones on various photo storage sites), other attendees feedback, some links in the backlog. A lot more stuff may be online. If you are curious: The official ...http://nohn.net/blog/view/id/gtac_2007 My photos are unavailable to Youhoo!- (Found July 15, 2008 ) Flickr is one of the few web sites, I'm was paying for. However, my Pro Account expires 2nd July, 2007, and I'm not going to renew it. Flickr once was a cool web site, then it got bought by Yahoo, then it got slow and now it patronises me. It may not be Flickr's fault, that Germany is close to Singapore, Hong Kong or Korea when it comes to freedom of information and censorship, but I'm not going to pay for being restrained. There are dozens of alternatives like...http://nohn.net/blog/view/id/flickr_gone (Ab)using twitter for Nagios IMSMS notification- (Found July 15, 2008 ) Two months after signing up for Twitter, I still haven't found a real use for it. I don't see any sense in telling everyone, what I'm doing right now, and it doesn't make sense as some kind of asynchronous multi-user chat as long as it doesn't support channelsrooms. So looking for something useful (well more or less) I tried to abuse their JSON interface for Nagios notification. It is dead simple, much simpler than implementing standard IM or SMS notifications in Nagios and...http://nohn.net/blog/view/id/abusing_twitter_for_nagios_im_and_sms_notification |