I am delighted to announce that Selenium Grid has now transitioned to new leadership. Congrats to Kevin Menard, Selenium Grid’s new maintainer. The project is really blessed because a lot of talented people volunteered to maintain it and take Selenium Grid to the next level. In the end, we still had to pick someone, and we believed that...

I am delighted to announce that Selenium Grid has now transitioned to new leadership. Congrats to Kevin Menard, Selenium Grid’s new maintainer. The project is really blessed because a lot of talented people volunteered to maintain it and take Selenium Grid to the next level. In the end, we still had to pick someone, and we believed that...

Selenium Grid is an adventure that started in 2007. Faced with a challenging rescue mission of a software project in Atlanta, my team decided that – in order to succeed – we needed a quick and reliable feedback loop for tests written at the browser level. The idea was to be able to safely refactor the code as well as the unit and...

Selenium Grid is an adventure that started in 2007. Faced with a challenging rescue mission of a software project in Atlanta, my team decided that – in order to succeed – we needed a quick and reliable feedback loop for tests written at the browser level. The idea was to be able to safely refactor the code as well as the unit and...

I have just published SystemTimer 1.2 release on Gemcutter. This new version provides support for custom timeout exceptions, will let you specify sub-second timeouts and plays nicer with Ruby interpreters compiled with -disable-pthreads. Install SystemTimer latest version with: sudo gem install SystemTimer Support for Custom Timeout Exceptions...

I have just published SystemTimer 1.2 release on Gemcutter. This new version provides support for custom timeout exceptions, will let you specify sub-second timeouts and plays nicer with Ruby interpreters compiled with -disable-pthreads. Install SystemTimer latest version with: sudo gem install SystemTimer Support for Custom Timeout Exceptions...

If you’re looking to do serious software development, work with some of the brightest people you ever met, embrace enabling agile practices, crack computation and machine learning problems that most people consider impossible to solve — all this while revolutionizing our $2.4 trillion Healthcare industry — this is the place. We’re...

If you’re looking to do serious software development, work with some of the brightest people you ever met, embrace enabling agile practices, crack computation and machine learning problems that most people consider impossible to solve — all this while revolutionizing our $2.4 trillion Healthcare industry — this is the place. We’re...

I will be speaking at Mountain West RubyConf 20080 on March 14 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Last year I was completely blown away by MountainWest RubyConf. I really enjoyed the high quality of its talks and corridor chats, the organizers’ kindness, the flawless program execution, and even more importantly, the conference’s strong and...

I will be speaking at Mountain West RubyConf 20080 on March 14 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Last year I was completely blown away by MountainWest RubyConf. I really enjoyed the high quality of its talks and corridor chats, the organizers’ kindness, the flawless program execution, and even more importantly, the conference’s strong and...

Dan Fabulich integrated a new Safari launcher in Selenium Remote Control. This is big news for Selenium and Selenium Grid users since this launcher provides a very simple way to bypass the same origin policy and run privileged JavaScript in Safari. If you are already familiar with Selenium Remote Control, this essentially means that for Safari...

Dan Fabulich integrated a new Safari launcher in Selenium Remote Control. This is big news for Selenium and Selenium Grid users since this launcher provides a very simple way to bypass the same origin policy and run privileged JavaScript in Safari. If you are already familiar with Selenium Remote Control, this essentially means that for Safari...

The awesome guys behind Phusion Passenger just released a new version of Ruby Enterprise Edition, which includes my work on caller_for_all_threads. For people who are not keen on patching and compiling their own Ruby interpreter, this is great news. Now, to be able to dump the stack trace of all the threads in your Ruby application… all...

The awesome guys behind Phusion Passenger just released a new version of Ruby Enterprise Edition, which includes my work on caller_for_all_threads. For people who are not keen on patching and compiling their own Ruby interpreter, this is great news. Now, to be able to dump the stack trace of all the threads in your Ruby application… all...

I have just published an excerpt from my ”Troubleshooting Ruby Processes” shortcut with kind permission from Addison-Wesley. The excerpt is covering lsof, one of the most powerful UNIX command (available on Mac OS X). lsof is invaluable when it comes to to investigating or troubleshooting problems related to network, filesystem,...