Slow TrackPoint on Dell Precision M6500 under Ubuntu 10.10
If you have a Dell Precision M6500 with a Synaptic TouchPad + TrackPoint) (rather than an ALPS version) and you are running Ubuntu 10.10 you may find the TrackPoint / TrackStick / Nipple is being detected as a standard PS/2 Generic Mouse and this is causing the movement to be very slow. You can check […]
Crazy Talk – Holistic Web Testing – Whys and Values…
Now for some web specific whys/values I do the in-memory acceptance testing… Semantic Html is my golden hammer Progressive enhancement is my swiss army knife I love JavaScript but try to never write any but if i must I make sure it’s generic. I try very hard to make sure no else writes any either […]
Crazy Talk – Holistic Web Testing – Some values…
(Previously on TWSDEV) As the “crazy” guy behind the in-memory / out-of-container acceptance testing on a number of java/.net projects, I think it’s important I explain to people the “Why” and the forces / constraints I am trying to balance. But first I want to quickly lay down my beliefs and values: I believe in […]
Using a fullscreen editor to update my blog
So after rediscovering the distraction free editors to write reports, it seemed mad not to use the same environment to update my blog. I really like the fact that the editor only supports plain text and didn’t want to reduce the readability of the plain text by having lots of unneeded markup all over the […]