August 2011
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Digging for XPath Treasure using Chrome
I was never a fan of using XPath in my cucumber step definitions… mostly because I didn’t really understand how it worked.
Recently I had the chance to work with some people that use XPath way more than I do and I extracted this nugget of info from them. (Thanks John!)
You can use $x in the Chrome javascript console. No extensions needed.
$x("//img")
I’ve seen a few...
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RVM Ruby Install on Lion Got You Down?
After a fresh install of OSX Lion, RVM decided no more of my ruby friends could come over and play. So I was all like “what’s up, RVM… y u no like my ruby exchange students anymore?”
Turns out Lion made some changes to what default compiler is getting used which makes building ruby via RVM unhappy. After some searching, the fine folks over at StackOverflow are full of...
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We are Family
For those of you who regularly read, or at least know me, know that I work/ed for a software development shop in Chicago called Obtiva. And if you knew that then you almost certainly know that Obtiva was recently acquired by Groupon.
Obtiva has a weekly get-together back at homebase called Geekfest. This is where everyone piles into one spot for some food and, more importantly, discussion about...
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Step Into My Breadbox, A Tale of Money Lost and...
Before starting with Obtiva a bit ago, I started a toy project called Breadbox. It was a project started mostly out of necessity. At the time I was freelancing and didn’t want to pay a monthly rate for invoicing software, so I did what software devs do… I built it. The project evolved slightly as it started moving toward a platform that I could sell as a service myself. I thought I...
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Possible Solution to bundling ruby-debug19
In a previous article I posted a solution to ruby-debug19 not building when using rvm. Many people have found this helpful and I’d like to make it a little easier.
The solution I’ve found goes something like this
bundle config build.ruby-debug19 --with-ruby-include=<path to used ruby>
Now this should allow you to just run bundle install with no code puke but I don’t...
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Tidly Bits of Knowledge, Shared by You
All right people, I’m going to share a little secret with you. Go ahead come a little closer so you can hear me, this is important. This may be somewhat of a shock to some of you but you’re smart. Yeah I said it, now deal with it. Oh, don’t give me the rolley eye. I know that you’re significant other along with your mother has been telling this to you for years. Go ahead...