Say you're on the console on your Raspberry Pi, and you want to take a screenshot. But without X running, what does one do?
Simple: Use fbgrab. To install it, just:
sudo apt-get install fbgrab
Pass fbgrab the name of the virtual terminal/tty you want to snapshot, and it'll …
Lately I've been looking for reasons to use OmniGraffle for diagramming.
And with the steps to set up static web hosting in S3 (as mentioned in my last post) still fresh in mind, it seems like a good time to document what I did. And the steps are simple enough …
New year, new hosting stack! This blog is now brought to you by Octopress, hosted on Amazon S3, instead of Blogger.
After spending some quality time with the tools I used in the move from Blogger (Octopress, S3, Route 53, git), I feel like the proverbial new pair of glasses …
A while back I was interested in writing some Ruby code that used functions from the Windows IUIAutomation COM interface.
But since IUIAutomation is a custom COM interface that doesn't implement IDispatch, Ruby's Win32OLE module won't work with it.
And I wanted to avoid using a C extension that wraps …
Not too long ago I needed to write some test setup code in C# to check for open IE windows.
The idea was to kill any running IE instances before entering the main portion of the test case - and just for reference, I wanted to record the URL that each …
netcat (or "nc" on the command line) is a useful tool for many reasons.
One common test automation task I've found it handy for is polling a port, waiting for a service to start responding.
While there are many ways to do that, using nc is a handy way to …
The curl command line tool is a great addition to your toolbox when working on web-related testing projects.
It's difficult to add up all the ways curl is useful for testing tasks. Here's an attempt at documenting a few simple scenarios.
OSX ships with …
Inaugural post!
Big news - Selenium 2 was released a few days ago:
http://seleniumhq.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/selenium-2-0/
This is a big deal, considering the impressive results Selenium 2 can yield, not to mention the time and effort that went into the project.
So, what better way to …
