If you are looking for a tool to create website screenshots have a look at the Firefox extension FireShot.

Besides taking screenshots from the visible part of a web page it can also create images of the complete page, which is what I was looking for.

I stumbled across this extension in Stuart Herberts blog post about 40 Firefox extension for web developers, which contains many interesting extensions - some of them have been mentioned here earlier.

UPDATE: Unfortunately, FireShot is not available for Mac OS X.

Bodo Wartke beschreibt besingt in seiner MacLife-Kolumne eindrucksvoll und unterhaltsam die Vorteile eines Macs.

Hilarious !

If you have been “upgrading” (from Vista to XP) lately you most certainly will have lots of fun watching this, this and this.

Did you play with LEGO when you were a kid - well, I did.

Recently we took the big box full of LEGO out of the attic and we had lots of fun with it. However - I noticed that some of the instruction-sets where missing and was reminded that some of them got lost due to whatever reason.

When back there was no easy way to get another copy of an instruction - surfing the web I found a website within minutes.

So if you find yourself in the situation of looking for an instruction-set go to the Brickfactory and browse their archive.

…however downloading a preinstalled VMWare image is easier.

Hint: the password for the administrative user is “ubuntu”

To make sure a forms submit button is disabled after it is clicked once, a Selenium test should look like this:

The button will be clicked (without waiting). Then it verifies that the button is disabled. Finally we wait for the next page to load.

To have my external backup USB drive always use the same drive letter I used these instructions found in Knowledge Base of SyncBack - the backup software I use.

If you are using Selenium to test your web application and you are having some AJAX in it, you may know that the waitForCondition assertion is your friend.

According to the Selenium documentation it:

Runs the specified JavaScript snippet repeatedly until it evaluates to “true”.

With this you can define your own condition which defines the end of an AJAX call.

Since I am using Prototypes AJAX mostly, I found this standard waitForCondition quite helpful:

It waits until all ongoing AJAX calls are done and then continues. While this might not be suitable for all places it is definitively better than using the pause command.

…ist eine hervorragende Diplomarbeit zum Thema Agile Softwareentwicklung.

Die Arbeit ist in 3 Teile unterteilt: Der 1 Teil beschreibt das sogenannte “Neue Web”. Wesentlich spannender fand ich den darauf folgenden Teil, der sich mit der Methodik der Agilen Entwicklung und deren Vorteilen befasst. Es werden verschiedene Ansätze gezeigt und auch deren Nutzen anhand von Beispielen belegt (45 Prozent aller zu Beginn gewünschten Features werden niemals genutzt).

Im letzten Teil wird die zuvor erwähnte Theorie anhand es eines Projektes (bemite - Online-Anwendung zur Zeiterfassung) in die Praxis umgesetzt. Der komplette Entwicklungsprozess wird dabei erläutert.

Das Dokument ist sehr gut geschrieben und macht Spaß zu lesen - das entstandene Projekt kann sich sehen lassen.

via: ThinkPHP /dev/blog