This month we’re going to give migrating an AJAX application to Adobe AIR and giving it “off-line” capabilities. We’ll be using our restaurant application from our August meeting as the basis for this test. I hope to discuss some of the tools I’ve used to migrate the app as well as discuss how to deploy AIR applications. I’ll throw a primer out over the next few weeks.

We’ll be meeting on December 18th @ 7:00 PM at Charlie and Jake’s. Keep an eye out for more details soon.

Zach did a great job last night showing us how the Selenium IDE and Core work along with examples.  We’ve uploaded the Selenium test suite he’s created, you can grab it out of SVN.  If you’d like to run it from the web, load up the web TestRunner and use tests/restaurant_reviews/suite.html for the test suite location; remember that only the Globals and Verify test will work due to cross-domain restrictions in the browser.

Thanks to Zach for his hard work on the presentation and to Sebastian, Frank, Darryl, Chris, and Sarah for coming out.  We were able to chose the December meeting topic last night, so look out for another post soon.

See you next month!

We’ve published the EventBrite page for November, so if you think you’ll be able to join us for a beer and some code at Charlie and Jake’s this Thursday, 11/20, @ 7:00 PM, please RSVP.

In preparation for this Thursday’s meeting, we’ve also updated the site a bit.  We’ve added the subdomain http://apps.itsrandom.info which contains the restaurant review application from our August meeting.  We’ve also updated the restaurant service to work via JSONP and updated the code base for the client and service in our SVN repository.  In this Thursday’s meeting we’ll be working with Selenium and this application to show examples of integration testing in web applications.

Hope you can join us!

This month we will be talking about “Integration Testing Web Apps using Selenium“. We will be looking at how to use Selenium to automating testing, build a test suite, and simplify testing with multiple browsers. We will be using the code from our first meeting.

To follow along on your own laptop you will need, FireFox, Selenium IDE, our code,  FireBug (not needed but really helps), and any other browsers you want to test in.

See you on the 20th.

I’ve created a group at LinkedIn for RAnDOM for anyone who is interested in joining.  There are discussion forums, news feeds, etc.  Not sure how much we will use, but figured it couldn’t hurt.  Worst case people looking for professional groups in Brevard will find us.  Come and join the group if you are part of LinkedIn!

Last month we met at Java Surf and we received a couple of concerns about the WiFi having a cost and only lasting 60 minutes a pop as well as no food being available at the venue itself.  I recently swung by Charlie and Jake’s in Suntree and saw that they now have free WiFi available.  I spoke with the manager and he’s said that they can set aside the outside seating for our meeting if we’d like.  Unless anyone has any objections, I’m going to move the November 20th meeting to this location.  Charlie and Jake’s has some great food and handcrafted beers, so let’s see how it goes.

See y’all there!

Two weeks ago Zach, Brian, Kai and I went geocahing in the Indialantic Beach area. Where we found 3 caches. Today Brian and I went on a bike tour of Suntree and found 6 out of 7 caches. Then on my way home, I decided to check one cache that I drive by every day. That makes a total of 12 cache finds as Team RAnDOM.

And as usual, here are some pictures.

Also, don’t forget that on Thursday, October 30th RAnDOM will be at Seminole Community College’s ninth annual Freaks and Geeks Event. Freaks and Geeks is a huge LAN party and we’ll be there representing in our cool RAnDOM gear. You don’t want to miss this.

Thanks to everyone who made it out to the October meeting last night.  We had a great turn-out of 8 people at our new venue, Java Surf.  Although, there were only a few laptops, I think we were able to have a good dialog about RESTful web services and, for those who toughed it out, a working client finally came to be.  I’ve committed my client code to get the client working on an instance of the Rails application running locally, but I was unable to get the JSONP code working with jQuery and Rails.  I hope to get something working over the next few weeks for anyone who is interested.  

We are interested in getting feedback about our new venue.  If you have time, please leave a comment on this post with what you did and didn’t like.  I know there were a few complaints about parking and internet access being limited to 60 minutes, so if these are points of concern, please let us know so we can look for another place to meet.

In any case, we will have the November meeting date and topic posted soon, so thank you to Zach for offering to present next month.  See you all next month!

I’ve published the code we will use for our October meeting being held tomorrow. You can find the code in our SVN repository. The /restexample folder is the source for the extremely simple Rails application that we will use to talk about RESTful interfaces. The /client folder is the source from the AJAX application we built in August with a some hints for integrating the application with these RESTful services. Additionally, we’ve setup a new subdomain (http://services.itsrandom.info) which you can use to access the services being used for tomorrow’s meeting.

For the meeting, as usual, we suggest bringing a laptop with your preferred HTML editor and an SVN client to get a hold of the code. Don’t forget about our new location this month at Java Surf; if you’d like to get wifi, make sure to bring money for a purchase. See you there!

Sebastian, Darryl, Frank, and I represented RAnDOM at this month’s Space Coast .NET User Group meeting.  Ken did a great job of talking about the various options available in Silverlight for data binding with objects and services.  Silverlight definitely has more options than Flex in terms of data binding (one-time, one-way, and two-way), so it’ll be interesting to see what’s coming in Flex 4 to compete.  Ken also gave a peak at some of the new features in the recently released Silverlight 2.0.

Thanks again to Ken for letting me speak about RAnDOM to meeting goers as well.  Great job!