A few weeks ago, an interviewer and I were talking about end-to-end test automation, and I mentioned using a Page Object Model when writing such tests. After we got off the call, I decided to put together a small demo which you can find at on GitHub. Btw, this was all done on my Mac […]
Microsoft Edge: How to remove all content from New Tabs
For many who’ve tried or moved entirely to using Microsoft Edge as their browser, the New Window or New Tab command result in a noisy mess of “news,” ads, and other visual clutter that’s really not wanted. To clean up your new tabs or windows, Open Microsoft Edge then paste this URL to the address […]
Using VS Code for git mergetool
We’ve probably all been there; working on a branch while a teammate works on another. We both make changes, then race to see who can get their testing done and merge their branch to Main first. The poor unfortunate soul who’s last ends up being the one dealing with merge conflicts. There are lots of […]
Using Node.js with Docker
I’ve looked Docker a few times, but I never had much of a need in my workflow. Now though, I’m more interested – we’ve got a few microservices that need to be running for our main application. They each are run using Node.js, and the “simple” method is to just open a new terminal window […]
When Chrome Auto-Updates
Using Selenium Webdriver or similar frameworks to “drive” a browser, usually for UI or end-to-end test automation, you may occasionally get this message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 83 (SessionNotCreated) Exception doesn’t have a stacktrace This means that, perhaps without you even realizing it, an update to Chrome has […]
Michael Vore
Michael “Mike” Vore, 80, of Columbia, Maryland, succumbed to cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital on February 11, 2020. He is survived by his son Steven (Hilary), Grandsons James (Tory) and Robert (Brooke), two great-grandsons, his sisters Anita (Bob) and Kathie and brother Don (Kathy). Mike was born in the Chicago area to Milton and Rita […]
Atomic Habits, by James Clear – Book of the Month Jan ’19
Ah January — a time for setting goals and making resolutions to change. So many of us do it, yet by the end of the month so many of us have gone astray, reverting to our old ways. This month’s book is one to help us define and stick to our resolutions by forming new […]
The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal – Book of the Month Dec ’18
This time ’round, my Book Of The Month is actually two books: Mary Robinette Kowal‘s The Calculating Stars and The Fated Sky. Dr. York, the protagonist here, is a smart, hard-working survivor of an immense environmental disaster. Along with a team of brilliant and talented — and often petty, sexist, and condescending — scientists, pilots, […]
Natural Born Heroes, by Christopher McDougall – Book of the Month Nov ’18
November’s #book recommendation, a true-life adventure, a detective story to uncover it, and more: “a story of remarkable athletic prowess: On the treacherous mountains of Crete, a motley band of World War II Resistance fighters—an artist, a shepherd, and a poet—abducted a German commander from the heart of the Axis occupation. To understand how, McDougall […]
grep, in PowerShell
Here is a sample of a PowerShell script that I use for finding text in files, having “grown up” with a more Unix-like syntax. I know, this isn’t exactly a clone of grep‘s functionality, but it gets me closer than having to remember exactly how to wrangle PowerShell’s Select-String commands to my liking. Note that […]