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16Feb
The most butch website design on the Interwebs
Posted by Elf Sternberg as Design, web development
Sharper FX They do nothing but churches. Black churches, too. Sharper FX is an 11 on the scale of Manliness. Watch some of the Flash splash pages. They’re amazing. I love this site.
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- Tags: church websites, Design, manliness, web design, websites
A friend of mine pointed me to the website of CB Richard Ellis, a real-estate investment and management house with a big footprint here in the Pacific Northwest. Their hiring website is a horror. No, really, go look, unless you’re an epileptic. (Sadly, the effect only seems to be present for Firefox users. Opera, Chrome, [...]
10Dec
Remote Authentication Between Cooperating Websites
Posted by Elf Sternberg as javascript, programming, web development
I had a job interview today, and one of the “challenges” with which I was presented was this: “We own several sites. We would like our user to be able to log into the central site as a subscriber, and then all the other sites will know what permissions that user has.” The sites are [...]
While visiting with friends and family this weekend, I ran into a long-missed flame who said she was frustrated because she’d gone back to school to renew her web design business, last heard from about a decade ago, but the school seemed insistent about teaching her programming instead. Her head was full of PHP and [...]
24Nov
Django SocialAuth component, now with some Elfin goodness…
Posted by Elf Sternberg as django, programming, python, web development
So, I got tired of the way Django-SocialAuth was borked and not working for me, so I forked the project and have put up my own copy at GitHub. There are three things I noticed about the project right away: First, it forces you to use a broken templating scheme. I haven’t fixed that, but [...]
20Nov
Continual Integration Testing for Web Applications: Remote testing with Celerity, Watir, and Cucumber
Posted by Elf Sternberg as programming, python, ruby, web development
This is part 4 of a series. So far, we’ve written a basic Django application, written some tests for it, checked everything into a central repository, and then integrated those tests with the Hudson continual integration server. But Django’s tests run in a kind of pseudo-server mode, with both the tests and the application running [...]
Parsing HTML with regex summons tainted souls into the realm of the living. If you hack HTML for a living, this will make you giggle. And given that I’ve used regex in my tests to assert the presence of classes and objects in a page, I guess I’m guilty.
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- Tags: funny, html
12Nov
Continual Integration Testing for Web Applications: Hooking up our application to Hudson
Posted by Elf Sternberg as django, programming, python, web development
This is part 3 of a series. In part 1 we set up a Hudson test server, and in part 2 I introduced a simple Django application with some simple tests. Now we’re going to make Hudson run those simple tests. Prerequisites: Your box for running this application must be able to run both Hudson [...]
12Nov
Continual Integration Testing for Web Applications: A Sample Application in Django
Posted by Elf Sternberg as django, programming, python, web development
This is Part 2 of a series. Before I demonstrate how to do continual integration testing, I need a demonstration application. I’ve chosen a simple Django application, your basic echo program, with no styling or media at all. This ought to be more than enough to demonstrate base functionality. A New Django Project Start by [...]
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- Tags: coverage, testing
11Nov
Continual Integration Testing for Web Applications: Setting up Hudson behind Nginx
Posted by Elf Sternberg as programming, web development
I once wrote that Nginx was my project management software. While not entirely true, I am very fond of Nginx for a variety of tasks, one of which is fronting Hudson. As I recounted in my previous post, getting this right will save you a megagigaton of grief. This technique works with almost all modern [...]
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- Tags: hudson, nginx, testing
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