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A ‘should be scripting, but brain stuck in neutral so closing some tabs’ edition of the Smattering.

• The slippery slope isn’t automation related, but if your employer does these things I’d suggest logging a bug and then finding an ethical job
• Why Package Signing is not the Holy Grail – crypto / security is hard. Also, I have a signed package for you to install…
• PHP and Async requests with file based sessions could be a way to speed up a PHP site. Which in turn reduces the amount of time your scripts take to run
• Canadipsum, eh? just because. (eh)
• Using CodedUI testautomation without UIMap files brings Page Objects to CodedUI
• Continuous Delivery Workshop With Neal Ford (@Neal4D) – a Retrospective – yup, the hard part is not the technical bit, but the people parts
• librarian-puppet says You can all stop using git submodules now which is good enough for me
• Highlighting the element before any clicks: A foray into the AbstractEventListener — the event listener stuff is something I need to sort out.
• phpci is built specifically for php apps, and doesn’t pretend to have the features something like jenkins does
• Beware subclassing Ruby core classes – there are likely parallels in other languages as well.

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A Sunday Smattering? Sure!

• Solution to the Selenium with Firefox 22 Issues and How to Report Issues – Open Source is hard. Supporting Open Source’s infrastructure is harder — by a large margin
• frequests – asyncronous HTTP Requests; not sure where I would use this, but…
• why I don’t touch crypo – again, don’t. touch. crypto
• Five reasons why you should quote attribute values in HTML5 – for the record, you should do this in HTML 4 as well.
• All the ‘Write The Docs session videos — a conference I couldn’t afford to attend, and likely don’t have the time to watch the videos now
• Automated Testing of HTML5 Canvas Applications with Selenium WebDriver – more and more important…
• Solving window.onbeforeunload nasty prompts
• pytest-poo for when your tests are, erm, crappy
• Tada! Here is SlimerJS! – like PhantomJS but for Gecko. I think.
• Did I select the right element? is a neat trick for highlighting things — even if the escaping of the code didn’t seem to survive formatting

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Apparently today’s ‘wait for an email’ task is to whittle down the smattering queue some more.

• I won’t even pretend that FOAAS has to do with automation, but makes me laugh. Also, depending on how crappy your place of work is, it might not be SFW
• PHP RFC: Importing namespaced functions is interesting if you are writing your scripts in a Functional manner. In PHP. In a future where it gets accepted and implemented.
• Measuring Web Page Load Times using JMeter — and read the response articles too for clarification / elaboration
• I kinda like that Se suites are making their way into large projects such as Moodle’s functional-test-suite repo. But at the same time it worries me when it hasn’t had a commit in 10 months. Suites should likely change even more than the app code it exercises
• jasmine tactics screencast — on the long list of tools I should learn
• Introducing the Mogotest Jenkins Plugin – hurray for more pipeline integration points
• The DOM isn’t slow, you are. — set the phasers on snark, and then read it anyways.
• Cross-Browser, Event-based, Element Resize Detection – edges are sharp.
• There is No ROI in Social Media Marketing – read this, and now read it again swapping in Functional Automation everywhere
• Now Available: Pocket Guide to Colour Accessibility could, in theory, be translated into a set of ‘rules’ to validate pages against since we can the colour of elements and their computed css values.

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