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Hands! Steven’s Notebook Look Ma - No Hands! About Books Robert Brennan Scouting History Page-Object Model October 12, 2023 Software Development and Testing Comments A few weeks ago, an interviewer and I were talking about end-to-end test automation, and I mentioned using a Page Object Model when writing such tests. After we got off the call, I decided to put together a small demo which you can find at on GitHub. Btw, this was all done on my Mac […] Read Post Microsoft Edge: How to remove all content from New Tabs December 12, 2022 MS Windows Comments For many who’ve tried or moved entirely to using Microsoft Edge as their browser, the New Window or New Tab command result in a noisy mess of news,” ads, and other visual clutter that’s really not wanted. To clean up your new tabs or windows, Open Microsoft Edge then paste this URL to the address […] Read Post Using VS Code for git mergetool August 5, 2022 Software Development and Testing Comments We’ve probably all been there; working on a branch while a teammate works on another. We both make changes, then race to see who can get their testing done and merge their branch to Main first. The poor unfortunate soul who’s last ends up being the one dealing with merge conflicts. There are lots of […] Read Post Using Node.js with Docker September 14, 2020 Software Development and Testing Comments I’ve looked Docker a few times, but I never had much of a need in my workflow. Now though, I’m more interested – we’ve got a few microservices that need to be running for our main application. They each are run using Node.js, and the simple” method is to just open a new terminal window […] Read Post When Chrome Auto-Updates September 3, 2020 Software Development and Testing Comments Using Selenium Webdriver or similar frameworks to drive” a browser, usually for UI or end-to-end test automation, you may occasionally get this message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 83 (SessionNotCreated) Exception doesn’t have a stacktrace This means that, perhaps without you even realizing it, an update to Chrome has […] Read Post Michael Vore February 14, 2020 Life , Uncategorized Comments Michael Mike” Vore, 80, of Columbia, Maryland, succumbed to cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital on February 11, 2020. He is survived by his son Steven (Hilary), Grandsons James (Tory) and Robert (Brooke), two great-grandsons, his sisters Anita (Bob) and Kathie and brother Don (Kathy). Mike was born in the Chicago area to Milton and Rita […] Read Post Atomic Habits, by James Clear – Book of the Month Jan ’19 January 23, 2019 Books Comments Ah January — a time for setting goals and making resolutions to change. So many of us do it, yet by the end of the month so many of us have gone astray, reverting to our old ways. This month’s book is one to help us define and stick to our resolutions by forming new […] Read Post The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal – Book of the Month Dec ’18 December 13, 2018 Books Comments This time ’round, my Book Of The Month is actually two books: Mary Robinette Kowal‘s The Calculating Stars and The Fated Sky. Dr. York, the protagonist here, is a smart, hard-working survivor of an immense environmental disaster. Along with a team of brilliant and talented — and often petty, sexist, and condescending — scientists, pilots, […] Read Post Natural Born Heroes, by Christopher McDougall – Book of the Month Nov ’18 November 9, 2018 Books Comments November’s #book recommendation, a true-life adventure, a detective story to uncover it, and more: a story of remarkable athletic prowess: On the treacherous mountains of Crete, a motley band of World War II Resistance fighters—an artist, a shepherd, and a poet—abducted a German commander from the heart of the Axis occupation. To understand how, McDougall […] Read Post grep, in PowerShell June 20, 2018 MS Windows , Software Development and Testing , Uncategorized Comments Here is a sample of a PowerShell script that I use for finding text in files, having grown up” with a more Unix-like syntax. I know, this isn’t exactly a clone of grep‘s functionality, but it gets me closer than having to remember exactly how to wrangle PowerShell’s Select-String commands to my liking. Note that […] Read Post ← Older Posts The Search Box Search for: Categories Books (48) Copyright (8) DRM (2) Exchange (1) Faith (9) Games (19) GTD (4) Hardware (1) Internet (15) Ireland (10) Knowledge (4) Leadership (5) Life (73) Links (32) Local News (49) Motorcycles (20) MS Office (6) MS Windows (32) Music (23) OneNote (4) OS X (16) Photography (43) Photos (120) Project Management (16) Scouts (6) Software Development and Testing (44) Space (3) Sports (3) Telephony (2) TV/Movies (31) Uncategorized (9) Video (9) Walt Disney World (5) Wayback (17) Weblogging (26) WordPress (3) Xbox (22) Meta Log in Entries feed Comments feed WordPress.org Steven’s Notebook © 2000-2018...