The Electric Vehicle Driving Test / / No Comments Electric vehicles are becoming increasingly popular, as people look for ways to reduce their environmental impact. But what are the pros and cons of electric vehicles compared to gas cars? And are all electric vehicles created equal? The San Franicisco Chronicle has created an interesting route planning tool which can help drivers compare the likely travel time and cost of taking any car Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: driving, Electric, test, Vehicle
Quick Test Post – Sorry! / / No Comments Hey folks, earlier this week I posted about a Pipedream workflow to automatically post new blog entries to Mastodon and Twitter. I discovered an issue with the workflow that ended up being a bug on the Pipedream side. (It happens!) They’ve corrected the issue and I need to test, so I’ve temporarily disabled Mastodon posting and am writing this post just to see if it posts correctly to Twitter. If so, I’ll then restore the Mastodon step (Pipedream makes it easy to disable one part of a workflow) and see what happens when I post again. As I feel guilty "spamming" my subscribers with noise, here’s a quick tip. If you ever need to expose a local web site for external... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Post, Quick, Sorry, test
Skip or Only Run a Test with JavaScript Mocha / / No Comments Whenever I start to feel anxiety about a big change I’m making, I start writing more unit tests. I’ll write down my fear and then write a test that attacks, and eventually relaxes, that fear. There are two actions that I’ve been frequently using with test writing: skipping all but one test or single tests. Skip a Test Oftentimes I will create tests with empty bodies so that I don’t forget to write them. To skip a test which is incomplete or known to fail, you can use xit: xit('does the thing I want', () ={ }); Once the test is complete or ready to be applied, you can change xit back to it. Run a Single Test To run only a single test with the Mocha test framework,... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: JavaScript, Mocha, only, Skip, test
JavaScript SDK Enables OTT Test Automation – ARC / / No Comments JavaScript SDK Enables OTT Test Automation ARC “JavaScript” – Google News… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Automation, enables, JavaScript, test
NJ Transit’s app finally has real-time bus and train maps. I took it for a test drive. – NJ.com / / No Comments NJ Transit’s app finally has real-time bus and train maps. I took it for a test drive. NJ.com “map app” – Google News… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Drive, Finally, maps, NJ.com, realtime, test, took, train, Transit’s
Review: 10 JavaScript editors and IDEs put to the test – InfoWorld / / No Comments Review: 10 JavaScript editors and IDEs put to the testInfoWorldJavaScript is used for many different kinds of applications today. Most often, JavaScript is mixed with HTML5 and CSS to build Web front ends. But JavaScript is also being used to build mobile applications, and it's finding an important place on the …and more » JavaScript – Google News… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: editors, IDEs, InfoWorld, JavaScript, review, test
Review: 7 JavaScript IDEs put to the test – InfoWorld / / No Comments InfoWorld Review: 7 JavaScript IDEs put to the testInfoWorldJavaScript is used for many different kinds of applications today. Most often, JavaScript is mixed with HTML5 and CSS to build Web front ends. But JavaScript is also being used to build mobile applications, and it's finding an important place on the …and more » JavaScript – Google News… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: IDEs, InfoWorld, JavaScript, review, test