Reflections on Talend
I just finished a project using Talend ODI to push around mountains of XML and am pleased to say it is well-suited to this kind of grunt work. The learning curve was steeper than I had expected, and it has…
Group Notifications in JIRA
My team has inherited a very messy process for posting safety alerts production. It started out innocently enough but has grown over the years, spreading through the organization like a fungus. For sake of argument I call it a process,…
Screenshots with Selenium and TestNG
Using TestNG and Selenium together is an excellent way to exercise a web application. TestNG’s data-driven approach to testing makes it easy to get search terms, evil cookies, and credentials from file, making it possible for non-developers to add new…
One off the List: Dolphin Fun
Dolphin Fun is a simple side-scroller for Android I wrote with artistic direction given by my seven year old daughter. Game play is simple: eat fish without running out of air, and don’t get hit by the boat. Not terribly…