A really great site is loesje.org (english) and loesje.nl (dutch).
From their english site :
Loesje is a Dutch girl with friends and connections all over the world. She wants people to get active, think and react on everything that happens around us. She believes that everyone has something to say about the world we live in. Loesje spreads her ideas and thoughts through posters.
Anyone is free to join in and help her in her work!
The more I look at gui testing tools or the more gui testing I have to do, the more I get depressed. It is a lot of work to test a simple table.
One part of the tests is functional (eg selecting a value in a combobox and check if the correct things happen and the correct value is actually set).
The other tests have to be visual, which combine the tests above (if present) and partly because eg you have created a new tableUI and you need to check if the line you draw in the table actually shows up.
Now to the poll part :
Since I am currently working on a gui toolkit (nyx, see link in the menu) and since I really need testing capabilities for that, I wonder what people want to see in a gui testing framework. I rather have it best of both worlds (my world and your world), instead of my limited vision, triggered by a irritation.
So please express your wishes in the comment area or mail me.
I will see how much I can get done and make it generic enough to be usable outside of nyx. It will of course be based on JUnit :)
Thanx for your feedback..
Sigh.
I sighed for you..
Enough talk about communities already, but lets get to the essence here and remove possible "personal opinions" on the word.
(let's be honest it is just a word, so why get upset abou it)
You have to put this a bit in a context of "developer community" at any place you can think of.
Let's review the facts according to the pocket oxford dictionary :
- Body of people living in one place, district or country
Hmm.. not applicable.. World would fit, but then everybody is part of the same
community all the time (don't know if people want that though)
- Body of people having religion, ethnic origin, profession,etc in common.
hey.. the profession (or hobby) looks like what we are actually looking for.
saves a hell of a lot of politics if we use this definition.
- Fellowship (comunity of interest)
Hmm.. Let's look up fellowship..
- Friendly assocation with others, companionship.
I love y'all!
- Body of associates
a PMC ? Or body as " my body has 2 feet, 2 arms". Hmm isn't that called sex or something ? Nehh.. let's not get into things I don't know anything about.
- Status of income of a fellow of a college of a college or society.
I am too stupid to understand this one and I am not looking for all the meanings fellow has!
- Joint ownership or liability.
Hmm.. apache is that I guess. (at least if you are a member). If you have a kid and have that kid together with someone else, you are already a community. Wow!
So let's summerize :
- I program, others do, we program in Java, so we are a java community.
- In more detail jakarta is a community. Since they at least share the interest of programming java. No need for fellowship there, although if fellowship is there, it saves a lot of mails..
- About the first entry : they say I am born on earth (they = parents). People seem to doubt that however. (no I cannot fly like Superman does)
- I am not an apache member, so not part of the liability thing.
Hmm commuity isn't that bad. It's just misunderstood :)
Here some tips for eric (see Eclipse m5: How to make it work)
I've been using the M3 release of this truly great Intehgrated Development Environment, or IDE, for Java development. The M3 release introduced the great feature of offering to import Java classes you have referenced in your code but not imported. Eclipse flags the line as an error (which it is, since you haven't imported the class) and then the quick-fix popup offers to import the class. This is one of the best features of Eclipse, one that makes me more productive.
With Eclipse, you can check out a module from a CVS repository, for example, and make a project out of the module. (This is what the "Welcome" screen tells you to do, in fact.) But, when Eclipse makes this project, it makes a CVS project, not a Java project, even if what you have is a set of Java code. There is no way from the user interface that can tell Eclipse that the project is also a Java project. (Ideally, this would be in the project properties dialog.) If anyone knows of any way in the interface to make this change, please let me know. I have not been able to find anything.
You may need to restart Eclipse to have this change take effect. Your project should now be recognized as a Java project.
Another feature in M5 that proved really annoying is the toolbar icon that enables the mode to show the source of the selected item only. For some reason this was on. (I cannot say for certain if this came turned on out of the box.
Love eclipse btw :)
In response to Chiara's I am losing you
I come home, and look at my house. It is filled with so much stuff. When did i get here? I the gypsy soul, whose sole purpose of existence was to leave familiarity everytime it hit home, leave unnoticed, undetected, like i have never existed, or mattered, whether i came or was gone. I never wanted to own anything more than 3 suitcases which would barely fit into my extremely fuel-efficient but tiny car.
I am slowly becoming my parents. Yesterday, i found myself thinking about buying a condo. A condo, meeeeee? How utterly unlike my restless gypsy soul..
I look at the mirror, and i cry.. I am losing you.. I am losing you.. My America of my childhood, of my dreams, of my future bright, the land of freedom, the land of just and fair, the land of freedom of expression, of personal liberty, of beautiful people, of courageous men and women, I am losing you..And i don't know where to go and look for you anymore..For we have become a nation of blood thirsty morons.
Hmm.. This week was a bad week for me. Didn't get much pc time (lot of driving, too much actually) and ignored my pc as much as possible in the evening and gained some weight this week (according to my mother).
Maybe I have this "depression", because of Valentines day (which we all know is to celebrate the fact that I was born). I have to be smiling and act happy again tomorrow, so people feel like it is actually a birthday celebration instead of a funeral.
Hope the 2 pies help for the 2 people coming to my birthday party.
At least Baahmi (my cat) is cheering me up a bit with is encredable effort to give me love (by washing my hair while we speak).
It is probably not a bad week after all, it's just that my ego wants to have me think it was a bad week.
One good thing about being born on Valentines day, I always get valentines mail, even though they are just to congratulate me on the fact that I made it another year.
If you want to come by : there is enough pie :)
Glad my birthday is only once a year.
Probably going to have a go at this one.. :)
It seems that Apple people will be able to use this one to (they ok'ed it..).
Not that I am but James would love to use it on his IBook (is it there already ? )
On my first trip to the US in 1994, me and a friend of mine watched the launch of flight sts-65, using the Columbia shuttle . I still have the t-shirt :)
Sad it ended like this.
Hope this will shift the focus from the war..
I hear a lot about cloning lately (there seem to be 2 couples here in Holland that have a cloned baby) and they are working on cloning a Mamoth. We had our share with Bull Herman and sheep Dolly.
People seem to be against cloning. I am not, but I don't see any reason why we should clone.
Human cloning will be one big disappointment for the people that want a clone with the wrong idea in mind.
A clone is merely an exact copy of genetics and this is only for a certain amount of time. The body is merely a representation of the state of the mind and the mind is the one thing that cannot be cloned. People make choices, which effect the body they live in positively or negativly. Those decisions will materialize in the genetic print that the body has.
So cloning eg Einstein has an extreme low probabilty of having another Einstein, since the minds are in a different state. Maybe he will look the same, but he is definitely going to be different.
Btw I am not a scientist :)
Today 50 years ago 1853 people died during the worst flooding the Netherlands had. In Holland we call it "de Ramp" (=the Disaster) and everyone knows what we are talking about. To visualize the victims see the list (this is no full list)
This all resulted in the creation of the dutch water defense system, which was built in Zeeland and Zuid-Holland.
I wasn't there, since I am 30 (almost 31), but my both of my parents had a completely different experience.
My mother was 8 years old when the flooding happened and she was right in the middle of it. She lived in a small village called Stellendam (in Zuid Holland). The island where she lived was struck the worst of all. 82% of the island was flooded. My mother still suffers from a trauma and gets emotional about it. She doesn't really want to talk about it and the information she gives is always the same. She probably has to much questions herself, so it is probably wise to talk to her brothers and sisters about it and give "de Ramp" some peace in her hart.
Nothing she can change anymore about what happened and she should remember she is a great person and has achieved a lot, without looking back on the bad times, since you cannot learn from that anymore.
My father lived in Dordrecht at that time (he was 9) . His parents (ehh my grandparents) had a suplly shop for cargo ships. My fathers experience is quite different compared to my mother. He even had a lot of fun. In the middle of night he woke up, because he heard a waterfall like sound in the basement. When he looked outside, he saw water flowing through the street and the shop of my grandparents was flooded with about 10 centimeters of water. He thought it was pretty cool, when he cycled through the streets and getting his feet wet (ehh kids like dirt don't they :). I don't think however that my grandparents were that happy about it, since there shop needed a lot of cleaning.
So his memories are of a good time.
The contrast is huge between the 2 stories (in my mothers house the wather almost reached the attick btw). One needed to be saved (she lived during the repairs in Soesterberg) and the other one didn't want it any different.