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Archive for August, 2006

FireFox 2 Beta 1

Posted by pat on August 28th, 2006

I downloaded and installed the FireFox 2 beta. The download can be a little tricky to find on the Mozilla site, but here is a link.Many of the plug-ins are not yet compatible with the beta. Here is my list of working and non-working

Working -Adblock
FireFTP
FlashGot
Forecastfox
FoxyTunes
Gmail Notifier
IE Tab
IE View
NoScript

These do not [...]

How To Understand SOAP in Any Language

Posted by pat on August 25th, 2006

I was recently working on a fairly hairy API issue for a customer. The TestTrack Pro API is a web services based using the SOAP protocol. SOAP issues are generally the most difficult to work with because custom applications can be written in any programming language, and I do not know any programming languages very [...]

Thoughts on Quality and Testing

Posted by pat on August 23rd, 2006

Seapine is currently working hard to finish up some upcoming releases. There will be a new product releasing in October and two big feature releases to correspond with the new product in TestTrack Pro and Surround SCM. The approaching deadline has certainly put a strain on development trying to get everything [...]

Book Review: Software Configuration Management Patterns

Posted by pat on August 18th, 2006

This is a book I read a little bit ago, but I thought it would be very useful for CM administrator who are trying to determine branching strategies in the system. One of the authors Brad Appleton is active on the Yahoo scm-patterns user group, and in CM Crossroads. His [...]