I was getting ready to run some Selenium tests and on checking the Open QA site noticed that they have released a new beta for Selenium IDE.
One big one I see - Firefox 3 support! 
jQuery News: UI 1.5 and jQuerify Bookmarklet
June 9, 2008 – 9:30 am
jQuery UI 1.5 is out! I really need to try some of these but with most of my projects having strict 508 issues - there hasn’t been any opportunities to experiment. I like how much thought they are putting into things and it looks like more good stuff is planned for the future:
We’re already planning the next release and have a huge roadmap that contains plugins like grid, tooltips, menus, colorpickers, autocompletes and much more.
One of my favorite jQuery tools has also been updated. Karl Swedberg has updated his ‘jQuery bookmarklet‘. If you have ever found yourself working on a site without jQuery - you can ‘jQuerify’ it using Karl’s bookmarklet.
It’s a nice little tool that allows you to play around with jQuery on a page that doesn’t already have jQuery loaded and see the results immediately.
A great tool to use with Firebug!
That Was Quick. OpenBD Out. Railo In.
June 8, 2008 – 10:32 am
An Open Message To Gert Franz And Railo
Wow. In a matter of a few days it seems the Open Blue Dragon project has imploded. First Neil Middleton’s post about a comment Vince Bonfanti made. Then Sean Corfield blogged a related post and a day later announces his resignation from the Open Blue Dragon project citing conversations that took place on the Steering Committee mailing list. We’ll probably never really know the full story but it’s a shame that the Open BD project will now probably be ostracized from the CF community.
Open Blue Dragon was always overshadowed by the bad blood that has existed between New Atlanta and Adobe.
Will Railo, with it’s clean history, be able to succeed?
Update: related blog posts:
- OpenBD, The Comminity and How I See it (Adam Haskell)
- Is Open BlueDragon Losing Momentum? (Andrew Powell)
- I resign the dragon… (Mark Drew) (Note: Mark indicates he resigned “a couple of weeks ago”)
- Farewell Open BlueDragon (Sean Corfield)
- New Atlanta offers ColdFusion to .NET/Java migration assistance (Sean Corfield)
- An Open Message To Gert Franz And Railo (Ben Forta)
- Answer to the open letter to Railo and me (Gert Franz)
Send Me Your Favorite Ant Tasks
June 6, 2008 – 9:38 am
I setup a new page on my Ant wiki for additional tasks. I’ve got several listed that I frequently use but I’m sure there are more… :) So leave a comment with your favorite Ant tasks and I’ll add them!
More CFML Open-Source Goodness? Maybe?
June 5, 2008 – 12:49 pm
So Railo is going open-source. While I think this is a ‘good thing’ I am beginning to wonder how we as a CFML community are going to keep up? While Open Blue Dragon has their steering committee I’m wondering if we don’t need something similar for CFML in general…
What is going to be considered the ‘core’ CFML tags? Where is the IDE that will handle all these different versions? Is Adobe’s CFQuery going to be the same as OpenBD’s?
I see a lot of benefit in having several choices but it’s going to all be worthless if I can’t reliably port an application from one engine to another with no changes.
Slow Blogging - Fast jQuery (1.2.6)
June 5, 2008 – 12:33 pm
Blogging around here as been slow lately…
Today however I did manage to update an application I’m working on with the latest jQuery 1.2.6 and WOW what an improvement. I’m using the Autocomplete and Validate plugins as well as a bunch of show/hide stuff and it’s noticeable faster. It’s a REALLY long form and previously performance was a bit sluggish. Some of that may be due to my code not being as optimized as it could be but with the recent jQuery update things are much snappier overall.
I have no way to actually measure the difference but my ’seat-o-the-pants’ meter says it’s faster.
This month I’m also doing a jQuery presentation for our local AppDev group which I’m looking forward to and which I need to get started on!!
Google To Host Popular JavaScript Libraries
May 28, 2008 – 11:47 am
This seems like a great idea if enough people use it…
The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JavaScript libraries.
Google currently supports the following libraries:
- jQuery
- prototype
- script.aculo.us
- MooTools
- dojo
A bit more information can be found in this OStatic article.
jsLex and Bromine
May 27, 2008 – 10:34 pm
jsLex looks neat (it’s an Eclipse plugin):
jsLex gives developers a complete picture of the performance issues with-in thier Ajax application. By auto injecting profiling code using jsLex ant task, developers don’t need to modify their code to track down bottlenecks, minimizing coding erros and saving time.
Looks like it does quite a bit more than that look at the features page.
I’ve been so busy but I need to find some time to tinker with these tools. I still have tried out CubicTest either! And today I noticed Bromine!
Bromine is a fully fledged QA tool that integrates with Selenium Core and Selenium Remote Control. It makes the life of testers, test managers, developers and other people who would have an interest in how the development of a web application is progressing.
Too many tools and not enough time!!