Posted on April 14th, 2009 by Neil Crosby. Filed under Blog Posts.
A week ago, I finally gave my talk about Automated Frontend Testing for YDN Tuesdays, something which I’d been working towards for what seemed like forever. The [2] is now online, and I’ve also put the slidedeck up onto slideshare, with the accompanying audio synced up with the slides. I’m hoping to get a transcription […]
Posted on March 9th, 2009 by Neil Crosby. Filed under Blog Posts.
A week or so I wrote about running the W3C CSS Validator on the command-line. Yes, I know I said I didn’t need to run it as a website, but as it turns out the command-line version doesn’t seem to want to validate local files — only files being served from a web-server. So, I […]
Posted on February 18th, 2009 by Neil Crosby. Filed under Blog Posts.
One of the things I’m currently working on is being able to run automated tests of FrontEnd Web Systems. In order to carry out the first phase of this testing I need local installations of the HTML Validator, CSS Validator and JsLint (when automatically running these tests many times a day it’s not fair to […]
Posted on January 27th, 2009 by Neil Crosby. Filed under Blog Posts, Tips & Tricks.
Yesterday, I had a problem. I had two files that were almost the same, but one of them had a few chunks of new data in it, and there were a couple of places where there were lines that only had a word or two changed in them. What I wanted was just the new […]