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Today when Frodo, my Mac Mini woke from it’s sleep, I found this: a blue ball, that I can drag around on screen and that reacts to clicking on it – by becoming even more blue. What the hell is this?

Blogger verstehen was von Typographie: URLAUB IN VERSALIEN via Tanja

Gefunden bei Tanja’s Mügablog: Und wenn mein vierundneuzigjähriger Grossvater meine Grossmutter tröstet, weil schon wieder einer aus dem Freundeskreis gestorben ist, sagt er halt: “Gränn’ nid, es hettere no. U es chömere nache.” Nicht nur, dass die Sprache wunderschön ist (ich würde gerne diese “Fremdsprache” sprechen können), auch die Weisheit die darin steckt: Weine nicht, es hat noch davon übrig. Und es kommen wieder welche nach.

Developing web applications is one thing, testing them another. Sure there are Unit tests, functional tests but in the end, the application also needs to be tested as the clients and users see it. And too many times, a seemingly simple change in an application breaks down parts of the application that weren’t regression tested. Unfortunately, testing an application in a browser is difficult at best, sometimes impossible. As soon as JavaScript functionality enters the picture, there doesn’t seem a way around long clicking exercises. The testing frameworks that have been available so far, aren’t really suited to the task. Enter Selenium by a couple of Thoughtworks engineers. ...

Actually - I’m not sure if he’s dead yet. I have an aquaintace that I met online and that I have seen in real life maybe two or three times. We share one common interest, but not much more (as far as I know). Yesterday I talked to a good friend of mine (met through the same on-line channels, sharing the same interests). She knows my aquaintance much better than I do. And she told me, that he has severed all connections to our online community. He has deleted his email accounts, deregistered from the forum, quit the chat. There is no online identity any more. ...

Microsoft has aquired Groove Networks. There are some more details on the website. Does this mean that Ray Ozzie has more time to blog? And does that mean, that Groove has been lost for the Mac community forever? I have been using Groove right from the start, before the 1.0 version (and wrote about it on the Heise Newsticker back then). We used it extensively when we were building Ivorix. I think it was way ahead of it’s time then. Unfortunately, the 2.0 release was slow & bloated. I have been using less and less of it over the years - also due to the fact, that basic features like search and printing were missing. So it has disappeared from my Toolset - unlike the other brainchild of Ray, Lotus Notes. ...