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  • CHM should be in…

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    Witold Rugowski
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    Well… Long time… But finally a new post! If You have drank Linux KoolAid, then You can run on problems when You get some CHM file. It is old format and I think it has place where it can live (like many other proprietary data formats): But still, You can get documentation in such format,…

  • Email verification – regexp

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    Witold Rugowski
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    Many times before when I was supposed to collect emails from users I was googling to find some regexp to verify email syntax. At least I was aware that regexp challenging email address syntax is a bullshit ;) I was working few years as Unix sysadmin mostly on mail servers, so I had some idea…

  • Testing binary downloads with Webrat

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    Witold Rugowski
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    I’m using Webrat to keep some sanity when approaching maintenance of new application. Customers often come to me with legacy code, which somehow is not covered by tests. In such case integration tests are way to go, since they provide most bang of Yours bucks – each written test could cover many parts of application.…