Alex Hoffman
Random thoughts and ramblings
Random thoughts and ramblings
Need to target the full .NET Framework 4 because Log4Net has a dependency on System.Web.dll which is not included in the client profile.
What's SIKULI?
Sikuli is a visual technology to search and automate graphical user interfaces (GUI) using images (screenshots). The first release of Sikuli contains Sikuli Script, a visual scripting API for Jython, and Sikuli IDE, an integrated development environment for writing visual scripts with screenshots easily. Sikuli Script automates anything you see on the screen without internal API's support. You can programmatically control a web page, a desktop application running on Windows/Linux/Mac OS X, or even an iphone application running in an emulator.
Read the press Picture-driven computing by MIT News office.
Scott Bellware recently bemoaned on Twitter that .NET developers doing web development should be using MVC and not webforms. He pointed out that attempts to pander to some developers by suggesting that WebForms and ASP.Net MVC were separate but equal were disingenuous "As more good web devs move to MVC, the WebForms camp looks ever more like paint-by-numbers web development. The shifting demographics of web development in .Net should be a clarion call for everyone to go back into learning mode. The paint-by-numbers crowd is feeling the heat of all the learning that Microsoft told them they didn't have to pay attention to. The amazing thing: rather that pour on the learning, ungodly efforts are being spent on perpetuating uninformed justifications. Dumb. No. Squarely. Definitively. ASP MVC and WebForms are not equals. Here, I'll say it: better web developers use MVC. The ultimate destructive force in .Net development: Microsoft convincing developers not to worry about deepening their skills".
