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Taking a Break
Dear readers, I was hoping to have a new entry for you this week. Unfortunately I am swamped with non-blogging work at the moment, and I need to concentrate on this for the next couple of weeks. So I’m taking a break from blogging for a bit. I should be back to my regular blogging…
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Through the Javascript Looking Glass Part 1: Finding ES6 + NodeJS Alternatives to the Python Stack
Apologies for missing last week’s scheduled post and being late with this week’s post as well. I’ve been putting off writing articles and refilling my queue, with other things that have been (or seemed) more important than blogging. Either way, I’ll try to fix this so that next week I’ll be back to my regular…
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DNS Woes
For the past couple of days instead of working on actual development work related to any of my projects, I’ve been transferring all of my domains from DreamHost, my old hosting provider to a new DNS provider. I was looking forward to a gentle switch over, to my new Canadian (eh!) DNS provider easyDNS. Unfortunately…
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PyCon US 2016, Maybe?
Well it looks like 2016 is off to a nice start. This weekend I submitted two proposals to talk at PyCon US 2016! And yes, I have already bought tickets, even though I am not quite sure how I’ll get to Portland, Oregon. 😛 But I thought why not? I had a lot of fun…
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As the Year of 2015 Draws to a Close…
…it makes me want to reflect on this past year and plans for the new year. Professionally it has been a great year. I feel like an active and important part of the work we do at Points. Over the past year, I’ve gone for being mediocre in Javascript to someone who feels confident in…
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Merry Christmas
Today is Christmas Eve, and I just wanted to wish you dear reader: a very Merry and blessed Christmas to you and your family. And may the One who came into the world to save humanity, may also come into your life.
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Switching to systemd
I recently upgraded my version of Ubuntu to 15.04. In the process, I found out that my init system had changed from Upstart to systemd. While having something as fundamental as the init system management was a bit annoying, it isn’t as bad as some folks are making it out on the Web. Here are…
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Sending Success and Failures Messages to SauceLabs for Splinter Web Tests
We use SauceLabs at work to handle the maintenance of environments specifically for running web tests. I highly recommend using SauceLabs over trying to maintain your own internal testing lab. (I know I helped create our Android web test environments and maintain the iOS Selenium environment. It was a lot of work and not a…
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PyCon Canada 2015 Talk – Fabric-less Deployment of WSGI Apps
As you may know, I presented a talk at PyCon Canada this year. And as promised I wanted to post the video and the associated content here. Hope you enjoy it! Video of Talk Watch on Youtube PyCon Canada 2015 – Talk Schedule PDF Slides Abstract Intermediate level talk about migrating a Fabric deployment to…
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Adding Functional (End-to-End) Test to Rookeries
Testing the client side of Rookeries, has proven to be quite a challenge. Not necessarily because testing well-written React JS components is hard. Rather I found it hard to setup a proper and consistent unit test infrastructure to do so. Rather than going through the pain of writing and maintaining functional tests in Javascript, I…