Classipress Child Theme
UPDATE!(09/11/2011) Currently updating this child theme for classipress 3.1.5 compatibility. Numerous functional improvements around proximity searching, improved FB integration, autocompletion on City field, and georss feeds (great to quickly generate mashup maps). DEMO
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I thought it was generally understood that lifespan on the web is pretty transitory. Yes, there are a few stayers such as delicious, flickr, twitter, facebook, etc. But as myspace proved, there are no guarantees. What people seem to struggle to relinquish is the pointless quest to find the one web service that will do [...]
User Stories & Non-functional Requirements
There has been some interesting discussions around User Stories on linkedin recently – and have illicted some passionate opinions on why people think user stories are not enough for every requirement. Take performance or technical requirements. This is too simplistic a view on user stories – I would challeneg anyone to find a requirement that [...]
Minister of 1 Massive Database
Do you remember various members of the Labour party going on about that “1 massive database” (to quote IT expert John Prescott)? That was going to tie all public data together. In ONE. MASSIVE. DATABASE. The ill-conceived idea that any IT consultant worth his/her salt would have recommended against, but large corporate IT service providers [...]
Behaviour Driven Development
Following recent experience with Agile Methodology BDD – I was impressed by how this appraoch provided tighter bond between user story and resulting code. And with maintenance in mind – every time a new story added or amended, these changes propogate down through to source code level. BDD also provides the clear scope for testing, [...]
Agile Automation
Do you know something I never heard is “the project is finished ahead of schedule”, its always behind. Now I thought maybe this is down to over-optimistic planning, and so cursing project to be behind schedule right from the start. Certain seemingly minor dependencies grow into big ones over time as they start to affect [...]
Using Selenium IDE with Firebug
This video demonstrates how you can use Firebug with Selenium IDE to record testcases for your Web application. This technique can be used with JavaScript frameworks like ExtJS and JQuery where basic recording doesn’t work. In this demonstration, X-path is usedd as a way to locate html elements on the web page.
