I'm a tinkerer with technology, and occasionally strike lucky with it. I co-chair the O'Reilly Open Source Convention and I'm in charge of designing O'Reilly's conference software platform, Expectnation.
I've written a few computer books, most recently "Learning Rails", in collaboration with my old friend and co-conspirator Simon St.Laurent.
I've been doing this for years because it's The Right Thing™, even though I've only been able to wring small (er, tiny, perhaps miniscule) amounts of practical value from it.
Norm Walsh speaks for many of us with a love for open standards and technical abstractions. Glad to see that in this case it's finally paid off for him.
Read his full post for how he integrated his XML-based addressbook and Google Voice.
This talk begins with a survey of the landscape of iPhone UI testing. We’ll discuss the work done by Dr. Nic Williams in unit-testing Objective-C code with RSpec, and by Matt Gallagher in spidering the iPhone UI with an XPath test script.
That will be a natural jumping-off point to explain why a full-fledged “GUI driver” for iPhone apps has been long in coming. We’ll look at different ways to prod at application code, and discuss the tradeoffs. Finally, I’ll introduce a simple library of Ruby glue code to connect Cucumber test scripts to the iPhone. The technique will be very basic, but just powerful enough to test a simple iPhone app.
I just skimmed through the slides here. The iPhone testing work is inspirational stuff. Definitely going to give this a spin. There's also a nice nod to the value of XML-based UI creation.
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I stumbled into Wikipedia's XML entry today and it's terrible. Sprawling, badly-organized, full of inessentials including some nonsense.
This message to XML-DEV from Tim Bray asks for help or discussion on how the XML entry in Wikipedia can be cleaned up. Most of the responses so far tend to paint the task as quixotic, but if anybody can motivate this to happen, I suspect it's Tim.
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