http://obvio171.wordpress.com Gathering my tech awes, links and findings. http://obvio171.wordpress.com/2007/04/21/around-the-clock/ The first aspect of the Free Software culture I immediately got into contact with was the timezone mess. As soon as I got accepted it was very clear what had to be done: “i need to meet up with my mentors”. I’m in Campinas, ~100km from São Paulo, Brazil, so UTC-3:00. Angrez is in Bangalore, India, [...] soc collaboration version control gsoc social community opensource work free software communication open source http://obvio171.wordpress.com/2007/04/21/around-the-clock/#comments Sat, 21 Apr 2007 20:04:49 -0300 http://obvio171.wordpress.com/2007/04/21/around-the-clock/ http://obvio171.wordpress.com/2007/04/18/firewatir-gen/ So it is official. My proposal for the Google Summer of Code program has been accepted by Ruby Central Inc. and will receive Google funding. The one for Eclipse wasn’t accepted, and it was the one I had dedicated myself less to, so I’m very happy with what I got. Angrez Singh is my mentor and [...] firewatir-gen ruby central soc http://obvio171.wordpress.com/2007/04/18/firewatir-gen/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:50:40 -0300 http://obvio171.wordpress.com/2007/04/18/firewatir-gen/ http://obvio171.wordpress.com/2007/04/10/the-quest-for-the-difference-begins/ Selenium Core, Selenium RC, Watir, FireWatir, SafariWatir, MineralWatir, Selenium IDE, TestGen4Web. These are all tools related to doing functional testing of web applications. The first six are concerned with providing an API for driving the browser like a user would. The latter 2 record user actions and output code to reproduce them. Problem is: each has [...] selenium "summer of code" watir soc webdev ruby testing http://obvio171.wordpress.com/2007/04/10/the-quest-for-the-difference-begins/#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:14:08 -0300 http://obvio171.wordpress.com/2007/04/10/the-quest-for-the-difference-begins/ http://obvio171.wordpress.com/2007/03/29/summer-of-code-all-nighters/ After about a week of digging up stuff on Free Software projects, subscribing to a dozen mailing lists, emailing developers, reading documentation, waiting for feedback, thinking up proposals, twisting and changing them, confronting them wih my own limitations and interests, I finally gave birth to two applications for the Google Summer of Code, one for [...] "summer of code" ruby central firewatir