On my way to the airport.
posted at: 19:04 | permanent link to this entry | Comments:
Chicago
posted at: 14:33 | permanent link to this entry | Comments:
YAPC 2006 Day 2 recap. This day went by amazingly fast. I went to several talks on testing in the
morning. Most of those talks were exceedingly dry, and seemed aimed only at
people that don't already do testing. There doesn't seem to be much new
information out there on testing. Except for perhaps the one gem of the
conference: Selenium. This rather
interesting application allows you to write regression tests for your web
application that actually launch and use a real web browser to test the
application. This makes testing things like AJAX and JavaScript possible. In the afternoon, I attended an amusing talk about ACME modules, and then I
spent some time talking to some other companies that were up at the conference.
Then, it was time to get ready for the evening dinner. The dinner was held at Dave and Busters, Chicago this year. We had a large
part of the building blocked off exclusively for us, and many of the games were
set to free play. There was a Pump It Up game present, and many of us were
playing that throughout the night. Plans for PPW are coming together nicely.
Best Practical has agreed to be a
sponsor. This pushes our total sponsorship up into a comfortable level for us.
Casey will also be giving a lightning talk on PPW tomorrow, and I hope that
helps drum up some more interest in both speaking and attending.
posted at: 02:11 | permanent link to this entry | Comments: