Geek: Continual Integration Testing, part 2: A Sample App

Following up on yesterday's post about setting up a Continual Integration Server, I've put up a short how-to on writing a simple echo application in Django. It includes a very simple test suite, intended to show how unit and session testing is done in Django, along with instructions on using the BeautifulSoup web parser to test for the presence of your expected outputs, and Coverage to ensure that all of your code paths get lit up by your tests.

Geek: Wildcard DNS for your personal projects

Just adding to my store of knowledge: Wildcard DNS for personal projects. More geek goodness, to put names to your IP ports.

Two Happy Birthdays!

It's convenient that they're on the same day! First, to Kouryou-chan, who finishes her 10th orbit around an unremarkable star in the unfashionable third spiral arm, but who is nonetheless a remarkable kid who continues to blow my mind with her sense of humor and joie de vivre.

Another exemplar of joie de vivre is shemayazi, who also completes another orbit, but it would be unfashionable to say which one. She is nonetheless one of the most wonderful women I know, and of whom I certainly don't see enough.

Just because I could...

This morning I downloaded and rebuilt the entire Firefox toolchain in order to get Firefox 3.5.4. It seems to be a lot more stable than 3.5.1, which crashed constantly.

At one point, in order to test it out, I had the following browsers all running at the same time on my laptop:

• Firefox 3.5.4
• Arora 0.10.1
• Kazehakase 0.57
• Galeon 2.07
• Epiphany 2.26.3
• Midori 0.2.0
• Chromium 4.0.240
• Seamonkey 2.0
• Flock 2.5
• Konqueror 4.3.3
• Internet Explorer 6
• WebTV 2.0.551
• Dillo 2.1.1
• Lynx 2.8.6 r4

Whee!

Oh, Randi Rhodes, your hypocrisy makes me smile

I listen to talk radio in real short bursts, maybe ten minutes at a time, while running errands. I rarely drive long distances in my car, and when I do I just flip through the dials looking for fun.

Rhodes seems to be sexually well-plugged in. Even if it's not her kink, she's made jokes about how "[if] you google for 'necrophilia' and 'bestiality' you get more hits on Republican speeches than you do Japanese porn." When she was temporarily relocated to a studio in New York, she said, "The engineers said they wanted me to be happy, to be comfortable. I don't know what it is with this chair. It has arms and gadgets and things. I don't think I've ever seen a chair like this outside of Xtube! All it needs is a strap-on in the middle!"

So, last night, she made me mad when she blasted Carrie Prejean for sexting to her boyfriend. She said, "You know, if you film yourself masturbating to send to your boyfriend to show how much you miss him, and you're enjoying it a little too much, you're sending the wrong message. You should send him a movie of you sitting on your couch, looking bored and eating ice cream!" She went to bemoan Prejean's sexual naivete and harped on her incompetence.

I agree that Prejean is a hypocrite in the first degree, Miss "God Loves Me Because I Hate Gays" who engages in underage sexting (which may ironically, may require her to register as a sex offender) and borrows money for breast augmentation surgery (from the Miss America pageant, no less!) only to miss her payments. But Rhodes cannot simultaneously be that deeply knowledgeable about and even sympathetic toward consenting sexual deviancy (I use that word with no malice whatsoever) and blast other people for doing what young people do.