Musings

I haven’t been very active here the last few weeks, due to an enormous amount of work that needed to be done. And I won’t be very active the next two weeks either. I’m going of the grid for a while…

Remember my plea for help a couple of weeks ago? I haven’t really had any success with this (even though nice people tried to help me). But then things picked up in the last few days: I browsed through the “Agile Web Development with Rails” book and found a note that basically said, that Internet Explorer is borked when you try to manipulate the DOM of a table. It seems, that it’s not able to handle the innerHTML attribute of table rows or table cells. ...

One thing that has always made Lotus Notes stand out above any other application development environment, is it’s ability to replicate data and design to different servers and/or laptops. This has made the development of online / offline versions of applications trivial. In general “it just worked(tm)”. While the Web (2.0) applications are taking the world in storm and SaaS is what everybody is talking about, there’s still a wide gap, when it comes to working offline. A lot of people need to work offline: On a plane, on the train or in a secluded chalet in the mountains. All of the fancy on-line browser apps fall very very short. Even though there are more and more places that are connected, these connections (through mobile phones for example) are slow and quite expensive. So offline functionality is (and will likely be for quite some time) a very important proposition for applications. ...

In the Extreme Testing presentation, I have a slide with assert_select examples, some of them lifted from the assert_select cheat sheet. All fine and dandy, except that this assert_select "form[action=?]", url_for( :action => 'foo' ) just doesn’t work. url_for is a method of the controller, not the ControllerTest class. So in order to overcome that limitation, you’d need to assert_select "form[action=?]", @controller.url_for( :action => 'foo' ) which doesn’t throw an error, but doesn’t work either, because url_for insists on adding https://test.host/ to the generated URL. Of course, that’s not what’s in the form you have generated. What you need to do, is to add the parameter :only_path => true to the url_for call: ...

reboot 9.0 is happening on May 31st and June 1st this year. I attended both reboot 7.0 and reboot 8.0 and both have been wonderful experiences (reboot 7 being the proverbial “kick in the ass”). reboot 9.0 has a wonderful feature on it’s website: After registering, participants are asked to tag themselves with up to 10 keywords. Later they can relate to other people, talks, ideas that share those keywords. ...

Trotz aller Politikmudigkeit und “die Politiker kummern sich nicht ums Volk”…. Die Zeiten andern sich. Bundesrat Moritz Leuenberger blogt! Bravo Moritz, das gibt mir ein klein wenig mehr das Gefuhl, dass es Politiker gibt, die mich tatsachlich reprasentieren. Weiterhin viel Erfolg und gutes Gelingen! Technorati Tags: moritzleuenberger, politik, bundesrat