Posts Tagged 'services'

My Joomla! mirror has been updated

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Published on Saturday, 20 June 2009 00:00

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My own private Joomla! mirror has been updated (34 new files for Joomla! 1.5.11), but you’ll find all versions of Joomla! since the beginning of the project.

Running Selenium Grid and a set of Remote control as NT services

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Published on Wednesday, 02 June 2010 22:42

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Selenium has various projects that can be combined with each other to create a robust testing environment.

• Selenium IDE: a Firefox add-on to record and playback tests in Firefox.
• Selenium Remote Control: a client/server system to control web browsers locally or on other computers, using almost any programming language and testing framework.
• Selenium Grid: transparently distribute your tests on multiple machines so that you can run your tests in parallel, cutting down the time required for running in-browser test suites. In-browser tests are inherently slow, but since commodity hardware is insanely cheap nowadays there is no excuse for not running all these tests in parallel on multiple machines and dramatically speeding up your feedback cycle. .
• Selenium Core: JavaScript-based testing system.

Also there are Selenium projects specifically for Rails, Ruby & Eclipse!

Today I will show you how to make run some components of Selenium as Windows Services. I am using a Selenium HUB and 4 Selenium RC running all on the same server (while not recommended for performance reasons, it is the easiest setup)

In this small how to I provide you at the end of the article a ready to use Selenium Grid 0.7 zip file

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Google Data Centers virtual visit

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Published on Monday, 29 October 2012 23:45

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2 weeks ago, a post on Google's official blog announced a project that allows users to step inside the private world of its data centers. For the first time, the company's impressive efficiency records and green ethos have been given a face in the form of the stunning photographs by Connie Zhou and the Street View-able hallways of the Lenoir facility in North Carolina...

http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/

Deleting the site demo-joomla-1.0.waltercedric.com

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Published on Sunday, 17 July 2011 17:45

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I am not any more providing support for Joomla! 1.0.

Since July 22nd 2009: Joomla 1.0 has reached end-of-life.

Reasons for the Move

• Security. Older extensions are often built using older and potentially unsafe coding methods.
• Support. 1.0 has a large number of older and unsupported extensions.
• End-of-life. Joomla 1.0 won't be maintained after the July end-of-life date, so it is a logical step to also stop supporting 1.0 extensions.
• Focus. Allow Joomla developers to concentrate on developing for the current Joomla 1.5 version and also for 1.6.

Visit the official anouncement here

The demo site for Joomla! 1.0 extensions has been deleted.

Eclipse shared install on a Windows Server 2003/2008

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Published on Monday, 31 May 2010 21:15

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I did develop this solution at work for our internal purpose at www.innoveo.com. Going away from the paradigm “As a developer I run everything locally” isn’t easy to accept but in some rare cases, it make sense. Below I list what I consider to be the main advantages and drawbacks.

Stability

• Not everybody is changing the developer environment as you need admin right to be able to do changes, more stability.
• The developer environment is standardized: convention over configuration always pays like in Apache Maven.

Sharing

• you can work from anywhere as long as you have an internet/VPN connection
• You can move your working place around, show your workspace to a colleague, reduce your coupling to Windows, use Linux, use a Mac!

Security

• The source code stay on the server, if someone steal notebooks you don’t loose your software assets.

Efficiency

• Somebody maintains the developer environment and settings for you, some developers can still beta test a new eclipse version before till it is considered stable.
• Rollout is limited to a minimum loss of time, as you will see below 
• Setting up a new developer account is basically settings up a new account on the shared server, running 3 lines of shell.
• The server  is not full of unwanted applications running in background, only java.exe. eclipse.exe, databases can still run on another server (MYSQL, Oracle), runtime environment (Tomcat).

Speed, speed and speed

• A server is cheap compare to one big notebook for every developer.
• Server is most of the time fully 64bits, may have up to 8 cores, RAID 5 typically  output 350Mb/s read (a good notebook: 32 bits, 2 cores and 80Mb/s without SSD)

Drawbacks

• A shared developer environment is a Single point of failure –> you need a very good backup, and eventually hardware fallback machine in hot standby!
• You can not work if developer have no or limited internet access, in train for example.
• It required a bit of initial engineering, hence this article.

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bug.waltercedric.com upgraded

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Published on Thursday, 11 September 2008 00:00

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to the latest version of mantis.

 

I will be closing some of the issues there and look at what are the requests.

https://bugs.waltercedric.com

Bug tracking system open

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Published on Monday, 01 January 2007 16:23

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I've set a new subdomain bugs.waltercedric.com in order to improve the quality  of my Joomla!  components.

Forum?
Currently the forum at forums.waltercedric.com has 202 users and more than 700 posts,  all members are exchanging ideas,  proposing help,  or simply asking questions.  Let me be clear, the forum will stay untouched, it already contains a lot of valuable entries, and is more adapted in a lot of cases. Moreover Google and MSN bots are heaviliy referencing its content, what I want to achieve with this new tool (Mantis) is another level of quality and release tracability.

Joomla forge Tracker?
After 2 years of usage I still find the tracker is horrible and not well suited to my needs.

In the next few days...
I am currently automating the user migration of forums (simpleboard) users to bugtracker (mantis), so You can use only one password.