thoughts from an /engineer(ing manager)?/g
Have you seen your WebDriver tests fail with vague errors or timeouts when trying to locate and interact with elements on your page?
Following the best practices in this post will help you minimize random failures while running automated browser tests via WebDriver.io and Selenium.
I never mind reviewing PRs from my coworkers, but I do want to minimize interruptions knowing I typically have other tasks in-flight. To help make the overhead of switching contexts (and branches) more efficient, try using the git pr command found in https://github.com/tj/git-extras …
I was spinning up a new website using one of my favorite WordPress stacks built on Trellis and Vagrant, when I encountered the following error: “The box ‘bento/ubuntu-16.04’ could not be found or could not be accessed in the remote catalog.”
I had recently updated Vagrant from 1.8.5 to 1.8.7, and had also recently started using Ubuntu 16.04 for my new projects, updating from the previous LTS version 14.04 I had relied on for years.
Here is how I fixed it …
A week ago, I decided to spend 7 full days learning a couple of the more popular MV** frameworks, after which I would write a little about my learnings and make a choice for my newest project. I had watched a presentation called Comparing Hot JavaScript Frameworks: AngularJS, Ember.js and React.js by Matt Raible, and was inspired to quantify my framework selection a little more thoroughly, even if inevitably I make my choice from the gut. Read more about my experiment with JS frameworks.
While working on an Ember.js app today, I hit an odd snag. Running a standard npm install was bombing terribly on my Mac. And 10 minutes of my google-fu wasn’t turning up any good leads. I had searched for “npm install ERR! Unsupported URL Type“, upon other variants, but I had missed something. The Solution What I had missed was a […]