March 2010
3 posts
just thought about changing my twitter handle, but all the straight-forward variations of my name were taken by users with no tweets and 3-5 followers! lame. guess i’ll stick with rfan622.
Press Mention in an article about SauceLabs →
X-post: Projects We Use at Sharethrough →
July 2009
1 post
gave a presentation at the fbFund
so I gave a talk early Wednesday morning. the talk was supposed to be about ‘rapid prototype’ but realized i had much more to share when talking about running a start-up as a whole. so i kinda morph’ed the topic to be more about ‘rapid prototyping’ a startup rather than just a product. in the end, it really was more a ‘tips and tricks’ for apply the...
June 2009
2 posts
Continuous Integration: Selenium + Firefox + Flash...
Another continuous integration how-to to put into the Web. This one is specifically about getting Selenium working in Ubuntu to test Firefox and Flash.
Download and Unpack Selenium RC. Make sure you get the latest version since it has udpated support for firefox3.
You put the Selenium RC files wherever you want, I put it in ‘/opt/local’
Now install a couple of things:
apt-get...
Getting Thrift & Scribe working with OSX
I googled out a whole slew of write-ups on getting thrift and scribe working on OSX and I finally cobbled together something that works. I’m sure of dependancies may/will change so YMMV following these steps.
First off, if you don’t already, install Macports.
In terminal type:
sudo port selfupdate
sudo port install boost
sudo port install pkgconfig
sudo port install libevent
Note:...