As of 2024, it's still not possible to enable HTTPS access to an S3 static website with a custom domain name, solely using the S3 bucket configuration.

Instead, the recommended way to enable HTTPS access to your custom domain static site is to deploy a CloudFront distribution that uses your …

When working on Selenium tests, do you appreciate a traditional IDE-based approach to debugging, with a GUI that lets you set breakpoints, step through your code line-by-line, inspect variables, and evaluate expressions on the fly?

Here's a .gif to illustrate what I mean:

Have you also tried WebdriverIO (the popular …

Do you have a burning desire (or a mandatory policy) to make your Ubuntu machine lock its display when you step away?

Or do you have a fondness (maybe a burn-in desire?) for a time when screensavers had other uses?

If so, this post describes how I installed XScreenSaver (and …

Keeping a Markdown ordered list in proper working order has always been tricky for me. I always seem to end up up with indentation characters that reset the next item back to the number 1.

Here's how to make a list containing paragraphs without the list item numbers resetting.

The …

Or: What we blog about when we blog about blogs

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This post is the story of how I switched the underlying framework for this blog from Octopress to Pelican.

And I added a side quest: Like many Octopress users, I grew fond of the default Octopress theme, and wanted to …

(tl;dr: This post describes how to build a Docker image for running Python GhostDriver/PhantomJS tests in a container.)

Background

In a previous post I described how to set up an environment to run automated Selenium WebDriver tests using the Ghostdriver/PhantomJS/Python web testing stack.

But these days …

When using Selenium WebDriver, you might encounter a situation where you need to scroll an element into view.

By running the commands in the following steps, you can interactively try out a solution using Google Chrome.

1. Set up a scratch environment and install the selenium package

My usual habit …

This post documents how to set up an Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit machine with everything you need to develop automated tests with Selenium-WebDriver, Google Chrome, and ChromeDriver, using the Python 2.7 release that ships with Ubuntu.

These steps might be useful to someone in the near term, and perhaps …

GhostDriver is a fantastic tool, one which I've been happily using for a while now (and have briefly written about before).

I feel it's worth mentioning that troubleshooting GhostDriver tests can seem like a challenge in and of itself if you're used to having a browser GUI to help you …

While working on a stackoverflow answer about Sikuli today, I noted that installing Sikuli on Ubuntu 12.04 isn't a one-step process - there are a few dependencies that need manual intervention before you even install it.

Here's the rundown of the steps that worked for me to get a simple …