What’s happening?

Google Chrome Log in Acceptance Tests

2011-01-21T13:14:00.000-08:00

If you run Google Chrome with these parameters:

--enable-logging --v=1 http://goo.gl/BL4bP
--user-data-dir http://goo.gl/BCkal

you get absolutely independent instance of Chrome logging a lot of interesting things and among them all calls from JavaScript to console.log, console.info, console.error functions.

What does it mean for Acceptance Testing? Simple! If you log from JavaScript you can test your Application through Google Chrome log.

Here is an example of how I am checking Google Chrome Log from PowerSlim http://goo.gl/NT7b2 Here is how it is filled from Java Script http://goo.gl/LLeV4 I am doing it from QUnit tests but it could easily have been done from the real App.

BTW PowerSlim is a nice PowerShell based SLIM server to Fitnesse Acceptance Testing Framework http://goo.gl/BmZ7E

Thoughts about Pivotal Tracker

2011-01-21T11:00:00.000-08:00

Pivotal Tracker is suitable for almost 100% for what I need to track 5 small teams: 4 in SPb and one in Zhuhai.

It is fast (rich JavaScript UI). It is very simple from usability perspective: rare case when you need to click twice to get what you need. For example Gravity https://www.gravitydev.com/ is not that simple: to change Story you have to Open It first and then Click Edit.

What I use Pivotal Tracker for:

- Release Planning: dev mangers are filling Backlog.
- Tracking what has been done and what is being done right now
- ETA: prediction of Release Date
- Comparison of Teams from velocity perspective

IMHO Pivotal Tracker has exactly right meaning of team velocity: it measure team’s velocity only by done User Stories. It is what I need. Nothing more.

What’s missing: Google Wave Integration :) So all our User Stories Titles are duplicated in PT and Google Wave. And we discuss them in Google Wave.

Interesting that I have PT Project per Team: that’s why it is so easy for me to compare teams. But at the same time it is in contradiction with Pivotal Tracker ideology. As far as I understand they suppose that several teams should be members of one Product. By using PT Project as Team I am not getting summary Product Burndown Chart. I am generating it myself by calling PT API and then merging data across all the teams working for Product with Python App.

So support of teams working for one product is a second missing feature for me.

But now when they are planning to be a paid service, big possibility I’ll start using labels and search queries for this. So I’ll be paying 7$ instead of 18$ :)

Function Hoisting or one more gotcha from JavaScript you should have known about!

2010-12-07T03:42:00.000-08:00

Started reading great book ‘JavaScript Patterns’ http://goo.gl/51wTa and want to share very interesting example from there.

The beginning is here “2.2.5. Hoisting: A Problem with Scattered vars”:

“JavaScript enables you to have multiple var statements anywhere in a function, and they all act as if the variables were declared at the top of the function. This behavior is known as hoisting.”

It means very simple thing: you can start using variable even if it has been declared later in the function. As it is being hoisted at interpretation/parse time (simplification), and it is ok! it just has ‘undefined’ value.

myname = "global";

function func() {

console.log(myname);
var myname = "local";
console.log(myname);

}
func();

you get:
>>undefined
>>local

Just to compare with Python: in similar example there you get “NameError: global name 'myname' is not defined”

Actually even this was surprise for me but wait... things start getting funnier when function declaration and function expression are getting involved.

You know the difference between function declaration and function expression, right? ;)

Just if you don’t (btw I didn’t) It is described here “4.1.2. Declarations Versus Expressions: Names and Hoisting”

So let’s start the party! Here is slightly modified example from here “4.1.4. Function Hoisting”:

function foo() { console.log( 'global foo' ); }
function bar() { console.log( 'global foo' ); }

function hoistMe() {
foo();
bar();
}
hoistMe();

You get:
>> global foo
>> global foo

Absolutely expected! Now next example:

function hoistMeMore() {

foo();
bar();

function foo() {
console.log( 'local foo' )
}

var bar = function () {
console.log( 'local bar' );
};

}

hoistMeMore();

You get:
>>local foo
>>TypeError: bar is not a function

‘local foo’ is expected, right? But why ‘Type Error’? Because! In function expression (which is different from function declaration) variable bar is being hoisted but function definition is not! That’s it!

Enjoy the book! :)

GitHub Network Graph

2010-11-25T09:20:00.001-08:00

There is a great article describing this Network Graph. https://github.com/blog/39-say-hello-to-the-network-graph-visualizer

I have no intent to repeat it here. Just want to say that It is very useful! It makes teams work very transparent.

Let me give you an example from almost real life! ;)

So we have four teams. We have one main repository on github. Every team has its own fork and implements features there. Only when feature is done and accepted tested by all teams, only then it is merged into main repository from team’s fork.

How does this Network Graph help? Simple. It shows you where every team is and where main repository is. And it shows all this info from the perspective of the fork which Network Graph you are looking at.

Example 1:

You are on the main repository Network Graph. Team A has done three commits. Team B has done four commits. You see all this.

Main ------------------------
Team A -------------------- 1 2 3
Team B -------------------- 1 2 3 4

Example 2:

You are on Team A fork. Team B merged new feature (100 commits) into the main repository. Again you see all this.

Team A ---
Team B --------1 2 --- 100 -----
Main ----------------------------- 100 merge with Team B

Git and testing lab

2010-11-25T08:57:00.000-08:00

You’ve got all your product on github, great! You have your local clone of github repository, even better!

But what will you do when your product is installed on testing virtual environment and you see a problem? Fix that on your dev machine in your local repository and then copy files to testing machine, and then, if it works, commit ?

Not very efficient! You need the immediate feedback, and you get that only if you modify files directly there - on testing environment!

But if you start doing that and make changes in 3-4 places, and then copy it back into your local repository and commit, again probably you are in trouble! Why? Because you are human being and human beings tend to forget things.

So here is an idea - not proven by the production usage but works on test repositories. The idea is based on how git interprets changes. It identifies every file in working directory by path. And it doesn’t delete if there is no file which is in the latest commit. And it does nice merge if there is no conflict.

Ok, closer to the body:

You have your production repository A:

.git
--Folder1

-----Folder2

If after the installation there is the same folders tree. It is very important trees you’ll be changing in have to be the same in both repositories!

%Install Dir%

--Folder1

-----Folder2

You can do this on your dev machine:
$cd //remote-host/Install Dir/
$git init

You don’t want to track everything just JavaScript files
$git add *.js
$git commit -m ‘first commit’

Then you fix the problem. After changing file1.js, file2.js ….
$git commit -a -m ‘problem fixed’

Nothing magic so far, just simple orphaned git repository not connected to your product at all.

Here is the fun! You go to your main repository:
$cd /c/main
$git remote add remote-host //remote-host/Install Dir/
$git merge remote-host
$git commit -a -m ‘all fixed files in the main repository!’‘

git doesn’t bother about the same files in both repositories, it takes only changes!

Done :)

P.S. Ups, don’t forget about your Acceptance Tests suite! Git doesn’t run it for you! ;)

GitHub and ssh_agent

2010-11-25T08:17:00.001-08:00

For communicating with remote github.com repository from your local clone you need SSH Keys. You generate them, add public key to github account, and sure protect your private key with passphrase, right? ;) All these steps are described here http://help.github.com/msysgit-key-setup/

Then you have two problems :)

First is annoying: you have to specify passphrase every time you push, pull, fetch to/from guthub.

Second is worse: on your builder you can’t easily automate push command after all your acceptance tests are green. And sure we all know that automation means no buttons to click, right? ;)

So here is a cure http://help.github.com/working-with-key-passphrases/ It is very simple you just run ssh_agent which asks your passpharse once and then (as far as I understand) it reads and remembers in memory your private key.

There is a nice script you can add to you .profile file. The only problem I had on Windows XP, the variable $SSH_ENV should have been put in quotes wherever it was used.

Done. Here is my version:

SSH_ENV="$HOME/.ssh/environment"

# start the ssh-agent
function start_agent {
echo "Initializing new SSH agent..."
# spawn ssh-agent
ssh-agent | sed 's/^echo/#echo/' > "$SSH_ENV"
echo succeeded
chmod 600 "$SSH_ENV"
. "$SSH_ENV" > /dev/null
ssh-add
}

# test for identities
function test_identities {
# test whether standard identities have been added to the agent already
ssh-add -l | grep "The agent has no identities" > /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
ssh-add
# $SSH_AUTH_SOCK broken so we start a new proper agent
if [ $? -eq 2 ];then
start_agent
fi
fi
}

# check for running ssh-agent with proper $SSH_AGENT_PID
ps -ef | grep $SSH_AGENT_PID | grep ssh-agent > /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
test_identities
# if $SSH_AGENT_PID is not properly set, we might be able to load one from
# $SSH_ENV
else
. "$SSH_ENV" > /dev/null
ps -ef | grep $SSH_AGENT_PID | grep ssh-agent > /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
test_identities
else
start_agent
fi
fi

Peopleware: Jelled Teams

2010-06-17T06:54:00.001-07:00

“No one can be part of multiple jelled teams. The tight interactions of the jelled team are exclusive. Enough fragmentation and people just won’t jell.” by Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister

Peopleware: Defensive management

2010-06-17T06:12:00.001-07:00

“You can’t protect yourself against your own people’s incompetence. If your stuff isn’t up to the job, you will fail. Of course, if the people are badly suited to the job, you should get new people. But once you’ve decided to go with a given group, your best tactic is to trust them. Any defensive measure taken to guarantee success in spite of them will only make things worse. It may give you some relief from worry in the short term, but it won’t help in the long run, and it will poison any chance for team to jell.” by Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister

F# is very concise

2010-04-22T11:13:00.000-07:00

let data = [1;2;3;4]

let r1 =

data

|> List.map (fun x -> x + 1)

|> List.sum

printfn "Adding '1' using map and then summing = %A" r1

Short version of Fitts' law: Put commonly accessed UI elements on the edges of the screen

2010-03-24T04:35:00.000-07:00

http://bit.ly/daF035

"The short version of Fitts' law, to save you all that tedious reading, is this:

- Put commonly accessed UI elements on the edges of the screen. Because the cursor automatically stops at the edges, they will be easier to click on.

- Make clickable areas as large as you can. Larger targets are easier to click on.

...

The next time you're constructing a user interface, you should absolutely follow Fitts' law. It just makes sense. But don't forget to follow the opposite of Fitts' law, too -- uncommon or dangerous UI items should be difficult to click on!"

The Software Craftsmanship Manifesto extends and challenges further the assumptions of the Agile Manifesto

2010-03-18T03:05:00.000-07:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Craftsmanship

"Software craftsmanship is an approach to software development that emphasizes the coding skills of the software developers themselves. It is a response by software developers to the perceived ills of the mainstream software industry, including the prioritization of financial concerns over developer accountability."

Twitter co-founder Evan Williams: Experimentation lets you create value

2010-03-16T07:19:00.001-07:00

http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/15/ev-williams-sxsw/

"UH: What makes 21st century businesses different? Like Twitter? The first principle to me is experimentation. Why are you willing to explore different possibilities?

EW: Experimentation lets you create value. “Whatever you assume when you start out, you’re wrong.” Most of the great businesses of our time have experimented. Like Google."

SLIM: beware of overdoing it! #fitnesse

2010-03-12T05:46:00.000-08:00

http://gojko.net/2010/03/12/fit-vs-slim/

"For using acceptance tests as a guide for development, beware of overdoing it. I am very concerned about long-term maintenance costs of such tests. What happens in this case is that people are effectively programming with tables – doing the same in code would allow you to benefit from IDE support for refactoring, file management and all sorts of other things that make IDEs useful. You lose all that by using scenario tables in order to make testers a bit more independent. I would rather suggest training the testers some basic coding skills so that they can write fixtures."

#googlewave hit space!

2010-03-11T09:54:00.000-08:00

http://googlewave.blogspot.com/2010/02/ten-tips-for-waving.html

Move through the unread messages in a wave by pressing the spacebar.

Waferslim 1.0.1 released #python #fitnesse

2010-03-11T09:27:00.001-08:00

http://withaherring.blogspot.com/2010/03/waferslim-101-released.html

WEDNESDAY, 10 MARCH 2010

This is a bug fix release targeting:

- Undefined symbols in tables raise an exception

- Multi-line data in fitnesse table cells causes exception

- Test fails when __repr__ raises exception while logging

Using the SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model - Part 1 and #powershell

2010-03-11T07:05:00.001-08:00

Using the SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model - Part 1

http://goo.gl/mgOu

Tried it from powershell - doesn't work

This works:

>>Add-Type -Path Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll

>>$client = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext "http://sp2010dc"

This doesn't

>>$client.LoadQuery( $client.Web.Lists )

Cannot find an overload for "LoadQuery" and the argument count: "1".

At line:1 char:18

+ $client.LoadQuery <<<< ( $client.Web.Lists )

+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : MethodCountCouldNotFindBest

#powershell Piping Objects to Functions

2010-03-11T04:48:00.000-08:00

from >>get-help about_functions

Any function can take input from the pipeline. You can control how a

function processes input from the pipeline using Begin, Process, and End

keywords.

- The Begin statement list runs one time only, at the beginning of the function.

- The Process statement list runs one time for each object in the pipeline.

- After the function receives all the objects in the pipeline, the End statement list runs one time.

Example:

function pipelineFunction

{

process {"The value is: $_"}

}

>> 1,2,4 | pipelineFunction

The value is: 1

The value is: 2

The value is: 4

Introducing the Windows #powershell ISE

2010-03-10T10:21:00.000-08:00

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd315244.aspx

Applies To: Windows PowerShell 2.0

The Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) is a host application for Windows PowerShell. In Windows PowerShell ISE, you can run commands and write, test, and debug scripts in a single Windows-based graphic user interface with multiline editing, tab completion, syntax coloring, selective execution, context-sensitive help, and support for right-to-left languages. You can use menu items and keyboard shortcuts to perform many of the same tasks that you would perform in the Windows PowerShell console.

How to Ease Customer Pain

2010-03-10T07:48:00.001-08:00

http://goo.gl/RpfJ

- Explain what exactly the end result will be

- Tell the customer what you will be doing

- Explain what the customer will need to do

- Outline anything the customer will experience (wait, discomfort, etc.)

- Call the customer by name to personalize the experience

- If tension is high, break the ice with some humor or a distraction that takes the customer’s mind off of the negatives

- If the pain is caused by your mistake – fix it

#powershell job can be run as 32 process even if computer has 64-bit OS

2010-03-10T05:21:00.000-08:00

just run this and check example 6

get-help start-job -examples

exploring wsman configuration, the core of remoting in #powershell

2010-03-10T05:04:00.001-08:00

>>cd wsman:

>>ls

ComputerName Type

------------ ----

localhost Container

>>cd localhost

>>ls

Name Value

---- -----

MaxEnvelopeSizekb 150

MaxTimeoutms 60000

MaxBatchItems 32000

MaxProviderRequests 4294967295

Client

Service

Shell

Listener

Plugin

ClientCertificate

>> cd client

>> ls

Name Value

---- -----

NetworkDelayms 5000

URLPrefix wsman

AllowUnencrypted false

Auth

DefaultPorts

TrustedHosts

>>cd ..\service

>>ls

Name Value

---- -----

RootSDDL O:NSG:BAD:P(A;;GA;;;BA)S:

MaxConcurrentOperations 4294967295

MaxConcurrentOperation... 15

EnumerationTimeoutms 60000

MaxConnections 25

MaxPacketRetrievalTime... 120

AllowUnencrypted false

Auth

DefaultPorts

IPv4Filter *

IPv6Filter *

EnableCompatibilityHtt... false

CertificateThumbprint

SQL Server #powershell Extensions (SQLPSX)

2010-03-09T08:50:00.000-08:00

http://sqlpsx.codeplex.com/

The primary goal of SQL Server PowerShell Extensions (SQLPSX) is to provide intuitive functions around the SMO objects which are backward compatible with SQL 2000. A secondary goal is to provide an application which reports flatten/effective security settings.

How to restore from SharePoint 2010 Recycle Bin through PowerShell 2.0

2010-03-05T10:48:00.000-08:00

Search for what you need:

>>(Get-SPWeb "http://sp2010dc" ).RecycleBin | ?{$_.Title -match "cool"}

Web : Home

ID : b23d2d41-cd6a-4471-a891-c86f83563e11

ItemState : FirstStageRecycleBin

ItemType : ListItem

Title : Would be cool

DirName : Lists/Tasks

LeafName : 1_.000

Author : PRODUCT\administrator

AuthorId : 1

AuthorName : PRODUCT\Administrator

AuthorEmail : Administrator@product.management.guys

DeletedBy : PRODUCT\administrator

DeletedById : 1

DeletedByName : PRODUCT\Administrator

DeletedByEmail : Administrator@product.management.guys

DeletedDate : 05.03.2010 18:44:42

Size : 248

ProgId :

ImageUrl : /_layouts/images/itgen.gif

Then restore it:

>>(Get-SPWeb "http://sp2010dc" ).RecycleBin.Restore( "b23d2d41-cd6a-4471-a891-c86f83563e11" )

Enjoy! :)

How to call SharePoint 2010 remotely through PowerShell 2.0

2010-03-05T10:23:00.001-08:00

you are on computerA, SharePoint is on computerB

on computerA:

>>Enter-PSSession -Computer computerB

>>Add-PsSnapin Microsoft.Sharepoint.PowerShell

Enjoy :)

SharePoint 2010 Backup/Restore from PowerShell 2.0

2010-03-05T10:17:00.000-08:00

>>Invoke-Command -session $session {Get-Command Restore* | ?{$_.ModuleName -eq "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell" } |select Name}

Restore-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication

Restore-SPFarm

Restore-SPSite

>>Invoke-Command -session $session {Get-Command *Backup*|?{$_.CommandType -eq "CmdLet"}|select Name}

Backup-SPConfigurationDatabase

Backup-SPFarm

Backup-SPSite

Get-SPBackupHistory

#powershell 2.0 modules, you don't need to be Administrator to call them

2010-03-04T03:23:00.000-08:00

http://huddledmasses.org/powershell-modules/

"Modules appear destined to replace snapins as the main way to extend PowerShell. In fact, in the current CTP2 you can load most existing snapins as a module instead, which means you don’t have to be an administrator to load a new snapin — there’s no need to registery them by running InstallUtil.exe — you can simply place them in a folder and tell PowerShell where to find them.

...

Modules allow script developers and administrators to partition and organize their Windows PowerShell code in self-contained, reusable units. Code from a module executes in its own self-contained context and does not affect the state outside of the module. Modules also enable you to define a restricted runspace environment by using a script."

And from get-help get-module -examples

-------------------------- EXAMPLE 4 --------------------------

C:\PS>import-module -name c:\ps-test\modules\test -verbose

VERBOSE: Loading module from path 'C:\ps-test\modules\Test\Test.psm1'.

VERBOSE: Exporting function 'my-parm'.

VERBOSE: Exporting function 'get-parm'.

VERBOSE: Exporting function 'get-spec'.

VERBOSE: Exporting function 'get-specDetails'.

What’s New In PowerShell 2?

2010-03-04T03:08:00.001-08:00

http://huddledmasses.org/whats-new-in-powershell-2/

Advanced Functions

Modules

Help

Remoting

Eventing

Integrated Script Editor (debugging)

Transaction support

#powershell and #lambda

2010-03-03T10:16:00.000-08:00

>>function test ($x) { &$x(3) }

>>test { param($x) $x + 2 }

SharePoint 2010 Products administration by using Windows PowerShell

2010-03-03T09:40:00.001-08:00

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee806878(office.14).aspx

- To retrieve a list of all SharePoint 2010 Products cmdlets using the Noun parameter, at the Windows PowerShell command prompt, type the following command: Get-Command –module Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell

- To retrieve a list of all SharePoint 2010 Products cmdlets and display a count using the Noun parameter, at the Windows PowerShell command prompt type the following command: (Get-Command –module Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell).count

- To retrieve a list of all SharePoint Foundation Search cmdlets using the Noun parameter, at the Windows PowerShell command prompt, type the following command: Get-Command -noun "*search*"

- To retrieve a list of all InfoPath Form Services cmdlets using the Noun parameter, at the Windows PowerShell command prompt, type the following command: Get-Command -noun "*infopath*"

- To retrieve a list of all SharePoint 2010 Products cmdlets that relate to Database, at the Windows PowerShell command prompt, type the following command: Get-Command -noun "*database*"

#powershell Using the Get-Command Cmdlet

2010-03-03T09:36:00.001-08:00

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee176842.aspx

Can’t remember the name of each and every Windows PowerShell cmdlet? Don’t worry about it; that’s one of the things Get-Command can help you with. Just type Get-Command without any additional parameters and you’ll get back a list of all the Windows PowerShell cmdlets.

Get-Alias | sort #powershell

2010-03-03T06:56:00.000-08:00

gets alphabetic listing of all currently defined aliases, want to assign alias? check Set-Alias

get-help about #powershell

2010-03-03T06:50:00.000-08:00

shows a list of all about documents, very helpful

powershell 2.0 and credssp, works just great

2010-03-03T05:37:00.000-08:00

powershell 2.0 and credssp, works just great

First I thought it is like Kerberos delegation. That is a pain, you have to do bunch of tricks with SPN and AD accounts. But credssp is much easier to turn on and use.

I have this configuration:

computerA - Windows 7 in Workgroup

computerB - W2k8 R2 in product domain

computerC - W2k3 SP2 in product domain

I have installed powershell 2.0 on computerC

I need to call this on computerA: Enable-WsManCredSSP -delegate computerB

when it asks for role, say "client"

And this on computerB: Enable-WsManCredSSP

when it asks for role, say "server"

Done! Now I can call to ComputerC from ComputerA trough ComputerB.

Example:

Invoke-Command -ComputerName computerB -Auth credSSP -Credential product\Administrator { Invoke-Command -ComputerName ComputerC {Get-Service Alerter}}

Just think about it! ComputerA and ComputerC are not in one domain! They even don't trust each other.

Enjoy!

Credential Security Support Provider (CredSSP) in Windows XP Service Pack 3

2010-03-03T05:07:00.000-08:00

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951608

CredSSP is a new Security Support Provider (SSP) that is available in Windows XP SP3 by using the Security Support Provider Interface (SSPI). CredSSP enables a program to use client-side SSP to delegate user credentials from the client computer to the target server. (The target server is accessed by using server-side SSP).

PowerShell 2.0 plus Fitnesse SLIM plus PowerSlim

2010-03-02T10:02:00.000-08:00

Very simple scenario

|import |

|powerslim|

!|scenario|given user: _ with password: _ |user, pwd |

|start |PowerShell |

|eval |^s = new-object -typeName System.Security.SecureString |

|eval |foreach(^a in "@pwd".ToCharArray()) { ^s.AppendChar( ^a ) } |

|eval |^creds = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist @user, ^s|

for this call

|script |

|given user: product\Lamer with password: ``1234qwer|

then you can use this scenario to start services on remote computer

!|scenario|start _ service on _ server |name, server |

|start |PowerShell |

|eval |Invoke-Command -computername @server -credential ^creds {Start-Service @name}|

it is all possible with PowerSlim runner by @velaskec

also you need IronPython 2.6 and waferslim 1.0

Enjoy!

Selecting Specific Properties of an Object #powershell

2010-03-01T10:27:00.000-08:00

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee176955.aspx

Get-Process | select name,id

Windows PowerShell | Where {$_.property -eq statement}

2010-03-01T10:15:00.000-08:00

http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/powershell/powershell_where.htm

gwmi -list | ? {$_.name -match "Network"}

Waferslim 1.0 released #fitnesse #slim #python

2010-03-01T09:45:00.001-08:00

http://withaherring.blogspot.com/

This major release supports fitnesse release 2010-01-03 and slim protocol v0.1:

-Added support for delegating from fixture to system under test with fixture.sut()

-Added support for library fixtures

-Added EchoFixture for use as a library fixture

-Added support for HashMarkup dicts

-Added StopTestException and handling

-Dynamic module loading no longer the default: fixed bug 497245 (unable to import twisted)

-Added support for complex variable substitution: fixed problem with e.g. $id$subid

-Updated TableTableConstants to add cell_ignore() and cell_report()

-Added from_string() and to_string() functions to waferslim.converters

-Tweaked method name invocation so that leading underscores in method names are no longer expected if the fitnesse cell value contains Upper Case Values

-Added examples for all the new features

Fit is Dead, Long Live Fitnesse - with Ward Cunningham and James Shore

2010-03-01T03:48:00.000-08:00

http://www.hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=169

There is no Fit anymore, but there is Fitnesse plus SLIM from Uncle Bob! Also interesting points about Domain Language. Do recommend.

Top 10 reasons why teams fail with Acceptance Testing

2010-03-01T01:53:00.000-08:00

http://gojko.net/2009/09/24/top-10-reasons-why-teams-fail-with-acceptance-testing/

...

- Tests unusable as live documentation

- Focusing on tools

- Not considering acceptance testing as value added activity

- “Test code” not maintained with love

- No management buy-in

- Underestimating the skill required to do this well

...

Microsoft PowerShell's Syntax

2010-02-27T10:16:00.001-08:00

http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/powershell/powershell_syntax.htm

"The fact that you almost don't need this page is a testament to the intuitive nature of PowerShell. Yet for those who wish to save time fumbling with the PowerShell syntax, it may pay to have a refresher of these rules of scripting grammar."

Getting Credentials From The Command Line

2010-02-27T09:54:00.001-08:00

http://goo.gl/9hgU

"When you use the Get-Credential cmdlet, you get a GUI dialog box to enter the credentials. This is the "Common Criteria Certified" way of handling credentials. It is also a pain in the butt at times. If you are an admin, you can alter this and request credentials via the command line as follows"

PowerShell 2.0: How to specify credentials to Invoke-Command

2010-02-27T09:52:00.001-08:00

Something like this :)

$s = New-Object -TypeName System.Security.SecureString

$s.AppendChar( '1' )

$creds = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist product\Administrator, $s

invoke-command -ComputerName sp2010dc -Credential $creds {Get-Process}

PowerShell 2.0 multi-hop authentication

2010-02-27T09:09:00.000-08:00

Within the remoting session to computer B, we want to execute a command — as below — to create test.txt on computer C.

http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog/?p=1230

PowerShell 2.0 Enable-PSRemoting

2010-02-27T09:00:00.000-08:00

http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog/?p=1064

The Enable-PSRemoting cmdlet configures the computer to receive Windows PowerShell remote commands that are sent by using the WS-Management technology. This cmdlet will be the first one to run if you want to use PowerShell 2.0 remoting features and needs to be run just once. ...

BTW, you need to enable PowerShell remoting only if you want the computer receive commands from a remote machine. To only send commands to a remote machine, you don’t need to enable PowerShell remoting.

Switching to Cassandra?

2010-02-26T05:38:00.000-08:00

http://goo.gl/GVOa

"With Twitter going public with their plans to switch to Cassandra, a lot of people are asking if they should switch too.

Ian Eure from Digg (also switching to Cassandra) gave a great rule of thumb last week at PyCon: “if you’re deploying memcache on top of your database, you’re inventing your own ad-hoc, difficult to maintain NoSQL database,” and you should seriously consider using something explicitly designed for that instead"

Plan browser support (SharePoint Server 2010)

2010-02-26T05:17:00.000-08:00

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263526(office.14).aspx

"SharePoint Server 2010 supports several Web browsers that are commonly used. However, certain browsers might cause some SharePoint Server 2010 functionality to be downgraded, limited, or available only through alternative steps. In some cases, functionality might be unavailable for noncritical administrative tasks."

Resource Monitor on W2k8 and W7

2010-02-26T05:11:00.001-08:00

if you are using netstat -a -b, then try "Resource Monitor", it looks very good. Go to "Network" tab and then look at "TCP Connections" and "Listening Ports"

httpd -V, look for APR_HAVE_IPV6

2010-02-26T04:13:00.000-08:00

httpd -V, look for APR_HAVE_IPV6

this means no IPv6

C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\bin>httpd -V

Server version: Apache/2.2.14 (Win32)

Server built: Sep 28 2009 22:41:08

Server's Module Magic Number: 20051115:23

Server loaded: APR 1.3.9, APR-Util 1.3.9

Compiled using: APR 1.3.9, APR-Util 1.3.9

Architecture: 32-bit

Server MPM: WinNT

threaded: yes (fixed thread count)

forked: no

Server compiled with....

-D APACHE_MPM_DIR="server/mpm/winnt"

-D APR_HAS_SENDFILE

-D APR_HAS_MMAP

-D APR_HAS_OTHER_CHILD

-D AP_HAVE_RELIABLE_PIPED_LOGS

-D DYNAMIC_MODULE_LIMIT=128

-D HTTPD_ROOT="/apache"

-D SUEXEC_BIN="/apache/bin/suexec"

-D DEFAULT_SCOREBOARD="logs/apache_runtime_status"

-D DEFAULT_ERRORLOG="logs/error.log"

-D AP_TYPES_CONFIG_FILE="conf/mime.types"

-D SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="conf/httpd.conf"

this is with IPv6

C:\Users\MPlavsky\Documents\Downloads\httpd-2.2.11-win32-ipv6\bin>httpd -V

Server version: Apache/2.2.11 (Win32)

Server built: Jan 23 2009 21:43:13

Server's Module Magic Number: 20051115:21

Server loaded: APR 1.3.3, APR-Util 1.3.4

Compiled using: APR 1.3.3, APR-Util 1.3.4

Architecture: 32-bit

Server MPM: WinNT

threaded: yes (fixed thread count)

forked: no

Server compiled with....

-D APACHE_MPM_DIR="server/mpm/winnt"

-D APR_HAS_SENDFILE

-D APR_HAS_MMAP

-D APR_HAVE_IPV6 (IPv4-mapped addresses disabled)

-D APR_HAS_OTHER_CHILD

-D AP_HAVE_RELIABLE_PIPED_LOGS

-D DYNAMIC_MODULE_LIMIT=128

-D HTTPD_ROOT="/apache"

-D SUEXEC_BIN="/apache/bin/suexec"

-D DEFAULT_SCOREBOARD="logs/apache_runtime_status"

-D DEFAULT_ERRORLOG="logs/error.log"

-D AP_TYPES_CONFIG_FILE="conf/mime.types"

-D SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="conf/httpd.conf"

Looks like on Windows IPv6 is not enabled by default

2010-02-26T03:15:00.001-08:00

http://win6.jp/Apache22/index.html

Apache version 2.xx has initially IPv6 feature. On Win32 platform, however, IPv6 is not activated. This package contains IPv6 enabled Apache which is applied a few patches and rebuilt.

Apache HTTP Server supports IPv6

2010-02-26T02:42:00.000-08:00

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.1/bind.html

IPv6 addresses must be enclosed in square brackets, as in the following example:

Listen [2001:db8::a00:20ff:fea7:ccea]:80

20 Fresh Sets of Free Icons for Web Designers

2010-02-25T10:40:00.001-08:00

http://goo.gl/Z7wi

"We love finding and sharing freebies with our readers, especially icons. We do this so you can focus on doing what’s important, instead of spending all your time searching the internet. In this article, we’ve rounded up 20 sets of freshly created free icons."

Silverlight Dynamic Languages SDK

2010-02-25T08:41:00.000-08:00

http://silverlight.net/learn/dynamic-languages/

"The Silverlight Dynamic Languages SDK enables developers to use dynamic languages running on the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) to build Silverlight applications. The DLR enables dynamic languages to interoperate with .NET's rich libraries and with each other. For example, developers can call managed JScript from IronPython. It includes services to build new languages on top of the DLR, such as a shared, dynamic type system and a language hosting model. Lastly, it makes it easy to host dynamic languages inside of different hosts. Silverlight, for example, is simply an application host used to host the DLR."

white-space #css #html

2010-02-25T08:36:00.000-08:00

http://www.quirksmode.org/css/whitespace.html

The white-space declaration allows you to tweak the wrapping of an element.

pre

... all line breaks, tabs and other oddities of the source code are literally followed.

Try Python in the browser #ironpython

2010-02-25T08:19:00.000-08:00

http://ironpython.net/try/

Quickly run Python code in your browser, without installing IronPython.

Focus on testing the parts that provide the most business value

2010-02-25T07:50:00.000-08:00

http://goo.gl/pzMD

Isn't it called "Acceptance Testing" :)

End of Support for Windows 2000, Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista RTM

2010-02-25T06:04:00.001-08:00

http://goo.gl/4riH

"And on July 13th, 2010, all versions of Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP2 will also reach the end of support. We recommend those of you still on Windows XP SP2 to install the latest service pack available via the Microsoft Update website – Windows XP Service Pack 3 – or look at moving to Windows 7. Folks still on Windows 2000 will need to look at moving to a more current version of Windows, such as Windows 7"

Bazaar adoption growing strongly #python

2010-02-25T01:56:00.000-08:00

http://bazaarvcs.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/bazaar-adoption-growing-strongly/

"As expected, all 3 major DVCS tools are growing faster than Subversion in percentage terms. What’s more interesting to me is that Bazaar and Mercurial are growing faster than Git, despite the buzz Git is currently enjoying. "

Bazaar 2.1.0 Released

2010-02-25T01:52:00.000-08:00

https://launchpad.net/bzr/+announcement/5157

This is a fairly incremental update, focusing on polish and bugfixing. There are no changes for supported disk formats. Key updates include reduced memory consumption for many operations...

#bazaar ~3300 files and ~120 MB: bzr init, add, commit ~ 20 secs, not bad at all!

2010-02-24T09:51:00.000-08:00

http://bazaar.canonical.com/en/

The Ultimate Top 25 Chuck Norris “The Programmer” Jokes

2010-02-24T05:15:00.001-08:00

http://www.codesqueeze.com/the-ultimate-top-25-chuck-norris-the-programmer-jokes/

"MySpace actually isn’t your space, it’s Chuck’s (he just lets you use it)." :)

A Little Bit of Python

2010-02-24T05:11:00.001-08:00

http://advocacy.python.org/podcasts/

A regular panel discusses the latest news in Python's development: new commits to the source tree, recent community events and discussions, and future plans.

The February 2010 cumulative update for WSS V3 and MOSS 2007 has been released yesterday

2010-02-24T03:20:00.000-08:00

http://goo.gl/wFXo

fixed issue with time zones and windows updates, maybe something else but links in articles pointing to nowhere

The Non-Programming Programmer

2010-02-24T02:13:00.000-08:00

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/02/the-nonprogramming-programmer.html

"After reading your article, I started doing code interviews over the phone, using web meetings. My interview times were down to about 15 minutes each to identify people who just can't code— the vast majority."

Free PowerShell Commands for Active Directory from #questsoftware

2010-02-19T08:13:00.000-08:00

http://www.quest.com/powershell/activeroles-server.aspx

The ActiveRoles Management Shell for Active Directory is a set of predefined commands for Windows PowerShell, the new command line and scripting language developed by Microsoft. These commands are designed to help administrators automate common, repetitive and bulk management tasks such as creating, removing or updating objects in Active Directory

PowerShell Community Extensions

2010-02-19T07:39:00.000-08:00

http://www.codeplex.com/Wikipage?ProjectName=Pscx

PowerShell Community Extensions (PSCX) is aimed at providing a widely useful set of additional cmdlets, providers, aliases, filters, functions and scripts for Windows PowerShell that members of the community have expressed interest in.

New CmdLets of Powershell 2.0

2010-02-19T04:59:00.000-08:00

Overview of the Powershell 2.0 new CmdLets

http://activexperts.com/admin/powershell/ps1vs2/

Easy, powerful access to Python functions from the command line #python

2010-02-18T10:32:00.001-08:00

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Baker/1.02

Baker lets you easily add a command line interface to your Python functions using a simple decorator, to create scripts with "sub-commands", similar to Django's manage.py, svn, hg, etc.

Windows PowerShell Cmdlet Help Topics

2010-02-18T09:45:00.001-08:00

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd347701.aspx

This section contains the help topics for the cmdlets that are installed with Windows PowerShell.

Submit a POST form and download the result web page #ironpython

2010-02-18T08:52:00.000-08:00

IronPython Cookbook

- prepare a request object, that is created for a given URI

- write the PARAMETERS string to the request stream.

- retrieve the response and read from its stream.

WebRequest.Method Property #ironpython #pivotaltracker

2010-02-18T08:08:00.000-08:00

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.webrequest.method(VS.80).aspx

gets or sets the protocol method to use in this request.

Example how delete stoty from Pivotal Tracker on IronPython:

https://www.pivotaltracker.com/help/api?version=v3#delete_story

request = WebRequest.Create( "https://www.pivotaltracker.com/services/v3/projects/%s/stories/%s" % (options.project, options.story ) )

request.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials

request.Proxy.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials

request.Headers[ 'X-TrackerToken' ] = TOKEN_ID

request.Method = "DELETE"

request.GetResponse()

Value Comparisons in #fitnesse

2010-02-18T03:19:00.000-08:00

You can use relational comparisons for the numeric values in your table cells.

http://fitnesse.org/FitNesse.UserGuide.SliM.ValueComparisons

And it looks like Regular Expressions are comming officially by the end of February - http://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/44141?story_id=2495218

What the new help says:

Regular Expression Comparisons

You can match regular expressions by using the syntax =~/regex/.

#fitnesse supports today

2010-02-18T03:11:00.000-08:00

http://fitnesse.org/FitNesse.UserGuide.TodaysDate

As you can see, you can add or subtract days. You can include the time switch -t. And you can use your own format for the time. (See SimpleDataFormat for the syntax.)

JS only available to SharePoint aspx pages :(

2010-02-17T07:40:00.000-08:00

Channel 9 Video

In this video you will learn how to use the SharePoint client object model to program a ECMAScript application against SharePoint data.

it looks like all SharePoint Object Model is now available to JavaScript, sounds very interesting

2010-02-17T07:29:00.000-08:00

Channel 9 Video

In SharePoint 2010 there are a number of object models that can be used by developers to access the server. The Client Object Model (Client OM) is a unified model which uses the same or similar programming concepts as the Server Object Model (Server OM). The Client OM can be accessed via web services, via a client (JavaScript) API, and via REST.

SharePoint 2010 Video for Developers

2010-02-17T07:03:00.000-08:00

http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/

Does Odiogo cost money to the end-user?

2010-02-17T06:28:00.001-08:00

http://www.odiogo.com/faq_end_users.php#q9

No. Odiogo and the affiliated Content Provider are compensated by sponsorship and advertising.

“Near-human” quality text-to-speech #odiogo

2010-02-17T06:21:00.000-08:00

Noticed intresting feature on Andy's blog: Listen Now

Checked it!

http://faseidl.com/public/item/250193

Liked it!

http://www.odiogo.com/

Clojure is a dialect of Lisp

2010-02-16T07:58:00.000-08:00

http://clojure.org/

Clojure is a dialect of Lisp, and shares with Lisp the code-as-data philosophy and a powerful macro system. Clojure is predominantly a functional programming language, and features a rich set of immutable, persistent data structures. When mutable state is needed, Clojure offers a software transactional memory system and reactive Agent system that ensure clean, correct, multithreaded designs.

Smithy: Python port of Ruby Rake #python

2010-02-16T07:32:00.000-08:00

This package contains Rake, a simple ruby build program with capabilities similar to make.

http://rake.rubyforge.org/

Smithy is a Python port of Rake. While it currently has a compatible core set of features, some of the extra fancy bits have not yet been worked on.

http://packages.python.org/Smithy/

Search in Google Buzz is Great!

2010-02-16T04:32:00.000-08:00

Search in Buzz is Great! Much Much Much Faster Than Twitter Search! Also Twitter can't search beyond two-weeks boundary! Interesting if Buzz can

What’s happening?: Gave up with twittering

Using tag names as members #python #BeautifulSoup

2010-02-12T10:56:00.000-08:00

http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/documentation.html#Parsing XML

It's easy to navigate the parse tree by acting as though the name of the tag you want is a member of a parser or Tag object.

...

An alternate form of this idiom lets you access the first tag as .fooTag instead of .foo. For instance, soup.table.tr.td could also be expressed as soup.tableTag.trTag.tdTag, or even soup.tableTag.tr.tdTag. This is useful if you like to be more explicit about what you're doing, or if you're parsing XML whose tag names conflict with the names of Beautiful Soup methods and members.

Backup: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)

2010-02-12T09:49:00.000-08:00

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263441.aspx

Do not use the Stsadm backup operation for site collections larger than 15 gigabytes (GB). For larger site collections, see the recommendations in Back up and restore site collections by using built-in tools (Office SharePoint Server 2007).

#python #optparse what are positional arguments for? or use sensible defaults whenever possible

2010-02-12T09:32:00.001-08:00

http://docs.python.org/library/optparse.html#what-are-positional-arguments-for

A good user interface should have as few absolute requirements as possible. If your program requires 17 distinct pieces of information in order to run successfully, it doesn’t much matter how you get that information from the user—most people will give up and walk away before they successfully run the program. This applies whether the user interface is a command-line, a configuration file, or a GUI: if you make that many demands on your users, most of them will simply give up.

optparse: more powerful command line option parser #python

2010-02-12T09:26:00.001-08:00

http://docs.python.org/library/optparse.html

optparse is a more convenient, flexible, and powerful library for parsing command-line options than the old getopt module. optparse uses a more declarative style of command-line parsing: you create an instance of OptionParser, populate it with options, and parse the command line.

STSADM MergeContentDBs command may cause database corruption #wss3

2010-02-12T08:28:00.000-08:00

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969242

Under certain circumstances, the STSADM MergeContentDBs command may fail in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. These circumstances include combinations of significant site collection size, user traffic, and SQL Server load. When the STSADM MergeContentDBs command fails, both the source and destination databases can be corrupted.

IronPython Cookbook

2010-02-12T05:53:00.001-08:00

http://www.ironpython.info/index.php/Main_Page

This wiki contains recipes and example code for IronPython

Pivotal Tracker: Token-based Authentication

2010-02-12T03:49:00.000-08:00

https://www.pivotaltracker.com/help/api?version=v3#access_control

Tracker uses a token mechanism to authenticate API users, and access control to projects and stories is based on the user's project memberships. Every API request must include the "X-TrackerToken". The token may be added as an HTTP header field or a normal HTTP parameter, for security reasons it is recommended to add it as an HTTP header field. To generate a token, use the "Create New Token" link on the My Profile page. To remove an existing token, click the "remove" link next to the token. It's also possible to generate or obtain a user token using the API, by specifying a username and password.

It is not the case (as commonly believed by nerds) that marketing is a substitute for code quality.

2010-02-12T02:22:00.001-08:00

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/02/11.html

This explains, among other things, why US software companies can’t expect to get sustainable advantage by offshoring software development to cheaper countries. If a developer in Russia, India, or China costs 50% as much as a developer in Seattle, San Francisco, or Boston, but software development is only 10% of your costs, you can only get a 5% advantage from offshoring development.

Visio 2010 comes with a brand new template: Microsoft SharePoint Workflow. #sp2010

2010-02-11T05:19:00.001-08:00

http://www.wictorwilen.se/Post/Creating-SharePoint-2010-workflows-with-Visio-2010.aspx

Visio 2010 comes with a brand new template; Microsoft SharePoint Workflow. Using this template you can design your workflow and then export it. This exported file can then be imported to SharePoint Designer 2010 or Visual Studio 2010 (just a guess - Visual Studio 2010 with SharePoint 2010 dev tools is not yet publically available). Another guess is that you can export the workflows from SharePoint Designer 2010 and import them into Visio for better visualization or documentation of the workflow.

IronPython 2.6.1 RC1 for .NET 2.0

2010-02-11T03:54:00.000-08:00

http://ironpython.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=40144

IronPython 2.6.1 RC1 includes fixes for well over 50 bugs, large and small. Ctypes has had a number of significant updates, including union support, variant_bool, and wintypes. Another focus has been on sys.settrace, making debugging more reliable. For example, sys.settrace now returns the correct frame, supports tracing through modules, and no longer interferes with “import os”. Other notable fixes include thread-safe importing, and the missing error code in _winreg exception.

In addition, we’ve made a substantial improvement in import time. Not only does this reduce startup time, but can speed up the importing of large, definition-heavy modules by up to 50%.

Priority 1 Paradox or why Moscow doesn't work

2010-02-11T03:45:00.000-08:00

http://gojko.net/2010/02/10/the-billboard-over-moscow/

The more we ask customers to narrow down priority 1 features the more they’ll be scared to leave anything out of that category.

The Purpose Alignment Model

2010-02-11T03:41:00.000-08:00

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1384195&seqNum=2

Differentiating: A few of our processes and requirements are both market-differentiating and mission-critical. The purpose of these Differentiating processes and requirements is to win customers and gain market share.

Parity: The vast majority of our processes and requirements are mission-critical but not market-differentiating. The purpose of these Parity processes and requirements is to keep us at parity with the marketplace.

There's no benefit in performing or delivering Parity processes and functionality better than anyone else does. In fact, treating Parity processes and functionality as if they were Differentiating processes and functionality has very high costs:

Google Buzz is easily connected to bunch of other networks

2010-02-11T03:34:00.000-08:00

http://www.google.com/buzz

Check connected sites option. There are Twitter, Blogspot, Google Reader etc.

MoSCoW Method

2010-02-11T03:20:00.000-08:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoSCoW_Method

The capital letters in MoSCoW stand for:

M - MUST have this.

S - SHOULD have this if at all possible.

C - COULD have this if it does not affect anything else.

W - WON'T have this time but WOULD like in the future.

Cultivate Teams, Not Ideas: ideas are worth nothing unless executed

2010-02-10T05:41:00.000-08:00

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001320.html

"In software development, execution is staying on top of all the tiny details that make up your app. If you're not constantly obsessing over every aspect of your application, relentlessly polishing and improving every little part of it -- no matter how trivial -- you're not executing. At least, not well.

...

If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else." by Jeff Atwood

py.test/pylib 1.2.1: little fixes and improvements #python #test

2010-02-09T07:19:00.000-08:00

http://codespeak.net/py/dist/announce/release-1.2.1.html

py.test 1.2.1 brings bug fixes and some new options and abilities triggered by user feedback.

Parameterized style: the location of underscores matters! #fitnesse #slim

2010-02-09T05:29:00.000-08:00

Mind the gap!

These are two different scenarios!

|scenario|given_product|product|

|func|@product|

and

|scenario|given _ product|product|

|func|@product|

for this call

|script|

|given Site Admin product|

first scenario will call func with ' Site Admin ' arg, second with 'Site Admin'

just fyi from http://fitnesse.org/FitNesse.UserGuide.SliM.ScenarioTable

"Declaring Scenarios using Parameterized style.

You can also declare a scenario by embedding underscores within a string. Each underscore represents an argument. The arguments are named in a comma separated list in the following cell."

I've spent couple of minutes trying to figure out why right scenario is not matched.

Scenario with the most arguments that matches the statement will be selected #fitnesse #slim

2010-02-09T04:55:00.000-08:00

Mind the gap!

http://fitnesse.org/FitNesse.UserGuide.SliM.ScenarioTable

"Invoking a scenario using Parameterized style

The secenario with the most arguments that matches the statement will be selected. So given two scenarios: widget _ renders _ and widget _, both match the statement widget foo renders bar, but the first will be invoked because it has more arguments than the second."

I spent couple of minutes trying to figure out why the right scenario had not been matched till it struck me out I was wrong with the sequence of arguments and key words.

IronPython has got the official web site #python

2010-02-09T03:36:00.000-08:00

from http://ironpython.codeplex.com/

"If you're looking for information on IronPython such as documentation, samples, support, etc, we highly recommend visiting the official IronPython website which not only contains documentation created by the IronPython Team, but also links to community generated content."