Today I decided to give Emacs another go. I was quite decided to stick with Vim, until I ran into a few XML formatting issues. The XML support is a bit limited and unfortunately it's not the only one on the list. I still think it's a great editor and knowing a few shortcuts always saves the day - and it's also deployed by default on all Unix like machines.
May, 2009
Perl: Automated Browsing or Testing Web Applications
By Cristi - posted on May 17th, 2009 and tagged under
While working with web applications, there are two cases when the ability to browse pragmatically web pages can be very useful: testing and screen scraping. This Perl script provides the ground basis for both - all you need is to insert the specific code for processing a page.
ruby: batch link checking
By Cristi - posted on May 15th, 2009 and tagged under
While testing a web application, sometimes it's useful to batch test a number of URLs. Even more, some applications might not be too friendly towards free browsing, thus when testing something like this, it might be a good idea to keep some sort of state on the client (cookies for example).
GreaseMonkey: Link videos from Last.fm to YouTube
By Cristi - posted on May 7th, 2009 and tagged under
