RhonabwyRandom blathering the bits that amuse and amaze me and tidbits from my programming on MacOS X.Rum- January 31, 2006 Back over Thanksgiving ( was it that far back), Nathan brought over some extra-fine rum for sipping beforewhile we made dinner and chatted. I've had it happily lurking on the side table since then - it's a neat looking bottle, plus you never know when you might like a little... So tonight I popped the cork and poured a couple of fingers. Man, that is good stuff. This is NOT the rum for wildly mixing with coke. I have that rum under the sink - dark and raw carribean stuff. This one is smooth...http://www.rhonabwy.com/mt/archives/2006_01.html#002825 cleaning the basement- January 31, 2006 This whole water thing is at least netting us something - a very clean basement floor. The rainstorms that ran through here over the past few days just added to the seepage and wetness in the basement. In fact, I spent about 30 minutes sweeping the puddles towards the floor drain to help the place out. Good lord, what a pain. In the meantime though, I suppose it is only reasonable to admire the nice clean floor that we have... And while I'm moaning about sweeping some puddled in the basement,..http://www.rhonabwy.com/mt/archives/2006_01.html#002824 a couple of stouts- January 27, 2006 Tonight Tonight was a good night. We had a decent turnout at the XCoders meeting (16 folks) for an overview of Perl. And that was one very thorough overview of perl! There is stuff he covered in that preview that I hadn't known... dating back to Perl 4! But probably more important to me was the beer afterward. A couple of stouts at Tangletown (an Elysian brewery outpost at 55th in Greenlake) and a whole ton of bullshitting and general tech talk among folks with a common interest. It was a...http://www.rhonabwy.com/mt/archives/2006_01.html#002823 Selenium- January 26, 2006 Well darn. I took a stab at developing some internal tests using Selenium to see if that might be a reasonable fit going forward. I was impressed with the cross browser functionality and focus, which would make a number of things a LOT easier. Unfortunately what I learned is that if your web application takes over the window (i.e. reaches into the DOM and makes SURE that it's the dominant window and not running inside a frame), the selenium isn't a good choice. At least in FIT mode. I haven't.http://www.rhonabwy.com/mt/archives/2006_01.html#002822 |