Watir, pronounced water, is an open-source (BSD) library for automating web browsers. It allows you to write tests that are easy to read and maintain. It is simple and flexible. Watir drives browsers the same way people do. It clicks links, fills in forms, presses buttons. Watir also checks results, such as whether expected text [...]

After some very frustrating experiences with Visual Studio 2008 hanging inexplicably, I discovered that the problem was the technical preview of Microsoft Office 2010 I had installed.  The fix was easy: http://blog.hinshelwood.com/archive/2009/07/19/office-2010-gotcha-2-visual-studio-2008-locks.aspx

One of my WordPress-based sites (http://crowdspace.net) was not working when I tried to publish posts containing images from Windows Live Writer.  I was getting a 500 Internal Server Error. I was able to fix the problem by making a small change to the database. The Error Message I enabled Failed Request Tracing in IIS7 to [...]

Content from Microsoft’s {You Shape} It campaign has been rolled up into the ebook Developers Developers Developers Developers.  Many of the contributors are Microsoft MVPs and/ Microsoft Regional Directors. It’s a free download and released under a Creative Commons license so share share share! http://devshaped.com/book http://devshaped.com/files/developersdevelopers.pdf In the book: Working with Brownfield Code by Donald [...]

A great list of JavaScript tools and resources was recently posted over at Smashing Magazine: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/21/50-fresh-javascript-tools-that-will-improve-your-workflow/