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The Pragmatic Bookshelf | List of Tips Once a human tester finds a bug, it should be the last time a human tester finds that bug. Automatic tests should check for it from then on.

I honestly wonder, why curl and the browsers do not show you the HTTP status code during your web interactions “by default”. Usually I personally employ curl on the command line with –write-out ‘… %{http_code} %{url_effective}  …’. Add-ons for Firefox: LiveHTTPheaders HTTP Resource Test Add-ons for Chrome: HTTP Headers REST console Advanced Rest client this…

How To Display Just The HTTP Response Code In Command Line Curl Adding this to a curl command line is actually quite useful: –write-out “%{http_code} %{url_effective}\n” Now I actually wonder why curl doesn’t display the HTTP response code by default. In my scraping scripts (based on libcurl) I have always been making use of it…

Search Case – GNU Emacs Manual Sometimes you are switching inadvertently to “case-sensitive searching” (by using an upper case letter within your search), and you want to switch back to “case-insensitive searching“, i.e. case-folding. According to the manual, you have to set case-fold-search to t.

Convention over configuration – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I created a testing framework for one of my projects, and for quite a while I maintained the test cases in a “configuration data structure” (luckily) with rather strict conventions. Let me call that a CDS! I listed every single test case with all its necessary details…

https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/openSUSE/12.3/ The least risky approach to upgrading a system should be by cloning it as a virtual machine, and upgrade the clone. That’s what I did this time, and it worked, and I am rather happy. Of course upgrades always come with unexpected effort. I downloaded the “Network / 64 Bit PC” ISO image, moved…

Learning GNU Emacs, 3rd Edition – O’Reilly Media Chapter 7: Simple Text Formatting and Specialized Editing Using Tabs Indenting Text Centering Text Using Outline Mode Rectangle Editing Making Simple Drawings (M-x edit-picture -> picture mode) For creating a vertical line switch to picture mode and change the default direction. Sometimes I need this for creating a table from…

Google’s chat client drops Jabber compatibility – The H Open: News and Features