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• jsPerf is a performance oriented sandbox
• The Myth Of Convention Over Configuration – hint: its curation over configuration. And since this is how frameworks work…
• sublimetext_indentxml is a sublime text plugin to indent xml — yes, originality counts with plugin naming
• Introducing Boxen – Boxen feels a lot like Vagrant, but for Macs? Maybe?
• Checking for Technical Requirements in a Sign-up Process — woah, this would be a pain to automate
• office_docs looks like it might help parse and inspect ms office docs your app generates. Or not. Dunno.
• The Future of Perl (5) proves that the Se gang isn’t the only one to completely botch naming and versioning. 😀
• Tortoises, Teleporting Turtles, and Iterators is pretty geek
• Don’t Use Automatic Image Sliders or Carousels, Ignore the Fad – and Reason #4 is they are a pain in the ass to automate since the state is always in flux
• The Continuous Delivery Maturity Model has some interesting ideas, but that it is presented as a ‘maturity model’ is fail all the way down.

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If you had anything interesting last week I should have seen, you’ll have to resend it to me or @seleniumhq — things were a bit crashy.

• So … Opera switching to WebKit. That doesn’t mean you can write off automation with Opera though. Tragedy of the WebKit Commons
• Introducing ChemistryKit — a Ruby version of Saunter is another self-serving link.
• Automated local accessibility testing using WAVE and WebDriver is a post I had been waiting awhile for
• How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work? because, you know you wanted to know. Unless you are too young. Kids…
• Start Writing More Classes got lots of twitter love. And an outstanding url.
• I’ve been thinking about documentation recently… The Principled Documentation Manifesto
• Tesla Model S REST API takes WebDriver to a whole new level
• A Browser Automation Standard is kinda amusing that the location is ‘Mountain View’ but David was broadcasting from ~ 8600 km away
• HTML5 Tutorial: Geolocation because this won’t be a pain to deal with…
• I think I like the diagram at Continuous Delivery vs Continuous Deployment but would suggest the top labels should be ‘Auto or Manual’

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Its a Wiggle your brain kind of morning…

• Automated Web Testing Is Hard is the launch announcement of ChemistryKit
• Watir-WebDriver with GhostDriver on OSX: headless browser testing — the WebDriver version of this would be very, very similar to this.
• jQuery 1.9.1 Released isn’t interesting from a new jQuery perspective, but the migrate plugin is. Likely old news, but was new to me…
• GRASP (object-oriented design) ‘is really a mental toolset’
• How Not to Design Pairwise Software Tests is even more useful when paired (pun intended) with…
• Using Data Driving Wisely
• The Importance of the DOM has a lot of stuff that my not-in-gear brain is capable of processing, but…
• Postel’s Principle is a Bad Idea. Sacrilege! Oh, wait, there is a patch.
• A brief chronology of SSL/TLS attacks can’t be automated, but good automation is to know what needs to be looked at by a human
• The Framework Superclass Anti-Pattern — for the record, my frameworks ‘require’ you have adapters to prevent lock-in. Oh, and they are Open Source…

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