Links & Thoughts & Stuff

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I just stumbled upon the Darwinia Development Diary and couldn’t stop reading until I reached the very end.

If you’re slightly interrested in the game, in game development in general or just want to see how it’s able to start one project and finish a completely different one, then this is the site for you!

I’ve written a Firefox extension that reveals the colour contrast of all elements in the DOM. If you evaluate websites for colour contrast, this extension will be useful for saving you time, and also take out the guesswork required to determine which colours to test. Gez Lemon

Download the extension at http://juicystudio.com/

A short rant by Markus Wolff about the ZF CLA and a lot lof high potential comments (by Andi Gutmans for example). This is worth a read even if you only thought about using the Zend Framework.

Selenium IDE is an integrated development environment for Selenium tests. It is implemented as a Firefox extension, and allows you to record, edit, and debug tests. Selenium IDE includes the entire Selenium Core, allowing you to easily and quickly record and play back tests in the actual environment that they will run.

Selenium IDE is not only recording tool: it is a complete IDE. You can choose to use it’s recording capability, or you may edit your scripts by hand. With autocomplete support and the ability to move commands around quickly, Selenium IDE is the ideal environment for creating Selenium tests no matter what style of tests you prefer.

Features:

• Easy record and playback
• Intelligent field selection will use IDs, names, or XPath as needed
• Autocomplete for all common Selenium commands
• Walk through tests
• Debug and set breakpoints
• Save tests as HTML, Ruby scripts, or any other format
• Support for Selenium user-extensions.js file
• Option to automatically assert the title of every page

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Have you already worked with it? What are your experiences?

The Toronto Indie Game Development Jam held from May 5th to 7th released the finished and not that finished games. Check them out as some are really fresh and funny.

See photos of geeks hacking games.

Play games from TOJam.

Well, I promised I’d write something about the Zend Framework soon, but our all time PHP Guru Harry Fuecks was a bit faster.

Read his blog entry SitePoint Blogs » Zend Framework: Looking Good over at SitePoint.

Who needs desktop tools if you have a bunch of good links to online tools? This is a great AJAX example on how to evaluate regular expressions directly in your browser. A nice feature: The app supports PCRE, Posix and Javascript engine to evaluate.

an AJAX Regular EXpression eValuator

Just read an interresting news at Golem.de. SourceForge is going to support Subversion in the future. At the moment they’ll slowly roll out SVN support to some bigger projects but will make it available for everyone soon. Of course they will leave the CVS support as is and the project managers can choose their preferred system. That’s what I call good news

Read the complete (german) article at Golem.de.

Since web applications are growing up to be an equal solution compared with classic desktop software programmers have to be more and more openminded for frameworks to support their development. Me – I didn’t really finish selecting the „right“ one but when researching I found this page with an overview to some frameworks with a short description. Maybe it helps you, too.

http://masterbootrecord.de/