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Selenium – “Use this for your Ajax testing!”

Okay, looks like I’m “underselling” Selenium a little bit…. Joseph Moore writes “Why the Selenium folks don’t have bright red “hey, use this for your Ajax testing!” flag on these two items is beyond me. ”

I found the link to the above post via Ajaxian.

Okay, I get it. It’s time for Selenium to [...]

posted in selenium by Jason Huggins

42nouns.com is the Answer for Everything

After pondering my last post “The Real Definition of ‘Web 2.0″, I figured I needed to act quickly. After all, I already live in Chicago and I’ve been programming in Python and JavaScript for years. And besides, I thought it would be cool to work for Google someday…

So last week, not wanting to miss [...]

posted in django, python, rails by Jason Huggins

The Real Definition of “Web 2.0″

Web 1.0: Move to San Francisco. (Take frequent trips to New York City, though.) Learn Java or PHP or Perl. Buy UNIX servers from SUN and laptops from IBM. Create a useless web-based commerce site that sells objects like books or dog food. Your website must be some made-up word– like “joinks.com” or “gadzooks.com” or “floobiejoobie.com”. [...]

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Error Messages in a RESTful API

I haven’t seen this suggested anywhere so I thought I would just put this out there and let the lazyweb inform me who invented this first. :-)

Cool frameworks like Rails, Django , and Plone provide a nice little HTML framework to show you validation errors on screen. They pin-point exactly where you goofed. This [...]

posted in django, python, rails by Jason Huggins