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Test-driven Infrastructure with Chef

If you’re a System Administrator, you’re likely all too familiar with the 2:35am PagerDuty alert. “When you roll out testing on your infrastructure,” says Seth Vargo, “the number of alerts drastically decreases because you can build tests right into your …

Strata Week: Robots will let us be more human

Happy new year! Here are a few stories from the data space that caught my attention recently. It’s OK if all our jobs are belong to them Kevin Kelly took a look at the effects of automation on society over …

Four short links: 6 July 2012

HM Government Consultation on Modernising Copyright (PDF) -- from all appearances, the UK Govt is prepared to be progressive and tech-savvy in considering updates to copyright law. Proof of the pudding is in the eating (i.e., wait and see whether the process is coopted by maximalists) but an optimistic start. Cisco Provides a Lesson (Eric Raymond) -- This is...

Top Stories: October 17-21, 2011

This week on O'Reilly: Andy Kirk explained why data, maps and animation work so well together, we discovered the connection between a game-playing robot and the future of mobile app testing, and we learned how The Guardian develops its data journalism.

Flash TDD Project Template

Advanced Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the Flash Art Of War, the oldest Flash military treatise in the world. In this AFT I will go over - Flash TDD Project Template. Those of...

Getting started with RIATest 2.0

Who here has boat loads of dough to drop on functional testing tools? Not many do, especially in these tough economic times. But there is hope! With RIATest 2.0, this powerful product's mission is to bring user interface test automation to the masses with a low cost price point. In this article we take a look at how it works and how you can get started with improving the quality of your software.

Everyday Automation - Processing Downloaded Files

If you live a highly Internetworked life, there will likely be certain types of files that, after downloading them from the 'Net, you perform the same regular tasks on: say, archiving bank statements to a folder, printing electronic invoices, etc. You can highly automate processing such files by using Folder Actions attached to your downloads folder.

Small Apps, Loosely-Joined Into Contextual Tasks

I spend too much time telling my computer how to do things when I should be able to tell it what I want to do. Perhaps it's time for declarative UIs to replace our procedural UIs.

Everyday Automation - Renaming Files

Renaming multiple files at once in the Mac's Finder can be a pain, unless you use a renaming utility. While there is a wide range of such utilities available as third-party offerings, Mac OS X has a flexible renaming tool built right in.