in reply to feeling rather stagnant ...

Go check out the Phalanx-100. Or, you can always /msg me - I can use help in a lot of my projects.

Being right, does not endow the right to be rude; politeness costs nothing.
Being unknowing, is not the same as being stupid.
Expressing a contrary opinion, whether to the individual or the group, is more often a sign of deeper thought than of cantankerous belligerence.
Do not mistake your goals as the only goals; your opinion as the only opinion; your confidence as correctness. Saying you know better is not the same as explaining you know better.

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Re^2: feeling rather stagnant ...
by geektron (Curate) on Jan 19, 2005 at 18:11 UTC
    trying to write more tests for things has been high up on my list right now. i keep running into what feels like the same wall with code here @ work -- too dependent on Javascript for me to write a good test suite of the front-end code ... i've been playing with Test::WWW::Mechanize recently, and it's good stuff ... but the bugs i set out to test ... couldn't be replicated because of the d*@#ed Javascript.

    so, the Phalanx-100 might be something i can jump into, depending on the time commitment, and how much 'learning time' i can con the bossman into. ;-)

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      Check out the Web Application Testing In Ruby project. Learning a little Ruby has drastically improved my OO understanding, I'm doing effective test automation of an all-Javascript-in-frames UI, and I *still* need Perl to glue the whole thing together.
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      FYI - I'd look at JSUnit, if you want. :-)

      Being right, does not endow the right to be rude; politeness costs nothing.
      Being unknowing, is not the same as being stupid.
      Expressing a contrary opinion, whether to the individual or the group, is more often a sign of deeper thought than of cantankerous belligerence.
      Do not mistake your goals as the only goals; your opinion as the only opinion; your confidence as correctness. Saying you know better is not the same as explaining you know better.

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