Convenient notifications from Autotest using test_notifier

Posted by Szymon Jeż Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:02:00 GMT

Recently I wrote (in Polish1) about problems with NetBeans integration with ZenTest Autotest (en) and posted my solution how to setup on screen notifications from Autotest (en). Then, a few days ago, I found2 test_notifier written by Nando (fnando) Vieira. This lib, avaible as a RubyGem:

gem install fnando-test_notifier --source=http://gems.github.com

is in my opinion an ideal solution for getting notifications from not only tests ran by Autotest but Test::Unit and RSpec test in general. Using it we can get convenient notifications about the results of our tests. Combined with Autotest we get a combo: automated, ran in the background, continuous testing + convenient notifications.

3 hit combo picture from Mugen

Please go and try it for yourself – it’s easy to setup and use as described in the REDME on the project Github page.

1 Use the (en) links to read the original articles translated to English by Google. The translation is kind of funny but you can get the idea about what I wrote.

2 Actually I found it, forked it, hacked a bit (added osd_cat, and knotify support, improved help hints when there is no notification software installed) and pushed it back to fnando so he could merge my changes. Thanks to Git and GitHub all of the contribution was a pleasure.

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jEdit - Black Hedgehog Edition

Posted by Szymon Jeż Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:14:00 GMT

This post will be about my faworite editor and my configuration of it.

I have been using jEdit – Programmer’s Text Editor for 1,5 years now. It has been my main editor and IDE for Ruby development for 1 year (NetBeans 6.0 is now the best Ruby IDE for me). I still use jEdit for other non ruby related programing tasks. For example during my studies I use it for writing Prolog and CLIPS code.

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pgAdmin III v1.8.0 Debian package for amd64

Posted by Szymon Jeż Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:42:00 GMT

I recently began to use PostgreSQL object-relational database management system. And I needed to use a GUI tool to help me start using it.

The answer was obviously pgAdmin. The version of it in Ubuntu Gutsy repository was to old for me (I like to use the latest ones). I searched the net for a ready to use .deb package and found nothing. So I build pgAdmin from source on Ubuntu 7.10 using this instructions After a successful installation i tested the software and it was running good.

A friend of mine who uses Debian was not so lucky trying to build pgAdmin from source(he is having problems with the wxGTK dependencies). He asked me to make a .deb package using checkinstall and send it to him. So i did. And finally he has managed to have pgAdmin up and running. A thought: “If it helped him so maybe it could be usefull for others” and I decided to public it here. So there it is: pgadmin3-1.8.0-1_amd64.deb

Sorry, for the to long intro about the origin of this file, I just had the need to exercise my English writing skills ;P

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