Recently I have asked if people are interested in creating Watir site at stackexchange.com. I was pleasantly surprised by the number of people that are interested. Just today I have read that new stackexchange.com sites can be created, so I have created Watir site at stackexchange.com.

I think stackoverflow.com software (also used at stackexchange.com) is the best solution for Watir support (and almost any other kind of support).

If you think Watir site at stackexchange.com is a good idea, all you have to do is:

- go to Watir site at stackexchange.com
- click link “Follow It!”
- enter your e-mail
- click button “Submit”

(I was tempted to write this as a Watir script.)

Optionally, you can add on-topic and off-topic questions, and vote on other questions as on- or off-topic.

Feel free to spread the word on your Twitter/Facebook/blog…

If you want to learn more about stackexchange.com, read the FAQ.

New round of free advertising of open source projects at stackoverflow.com has just started.

We had 17 votes the last time, 6 were needed to be displayed at stackoverflow.com. The ad got a few complaints about not having any text. (I just copied our logo.)

This time I took a Creative Commons photo and added some text:

browser.goto 'watir.com'
# to learn more

browser.goto 'github.com/bret/watir'
browser.span(:text=>'Fork').click
# to contribute

Feel free to vote or comment for Watir ad at stackoverflow.com.

If anybody has an idea for different photo or text, please let me know.

Even better, read the stackoverflow.com blog post, create an add and submit it. Then let us know so we can vote for it. (There can be more that one proposal.)

I was at CASE 22 conference this week. It was three day conference, but I was there only the last half of the last day, so I can not say a lot about it. So, I will just mention Davor Banović‘s talk on usability testing.

Since that is all I know, I talked about Watir.

It was “old school” conference, looks like I was the only one tweeting (#case22 at twitter.com and case22 at identi.ca).

Last week I was at ViaQA, small conference on software testing.

As usual, I was talking about Watir, and the rest of the speakers talked about integration testing, user interface testing, Microsoft tools for testing, open source tools for testing…

I have recorded a few podcasts (in Croatian), you can find them at the bottom of this post, or at Vidi Podkast. Only one podcast is published so far, I hope I will have some time in the next few weeks to publish them all. I will update this post when the podcasts are published.

We have started testers.shoutem.com micro blog before the conference, and you can take a look at #viaqa at twitter.com and viaqa at identi.ca.

My photos and Davor’s photos are available at Picasa Web Albums.

Podcasts (in Croatian):

Vidi Podkast #14 Davor Banović o ViaQA

Watir Podcast Logo

Numbers

A few days ago it was 2 years since I published the first Watir Podcast.

In this 2 years I have published 34 podcasts with people literally all over the world. Lately I am trying to produce a podcast a month, and I am trying to keep it about 30 minutes long. I have recorded podcasts as short as 5 minutes, but also longer than 70 minutes.

Google Analytics and FeedBurner say the numbers are (mostly) going up. FeedBurner says about 100 people is subscribed to the podcast feed lately.

Google Analytics

FeedBurner

The following table lists downloads since December 2009, when I started using Podtrac. The first number is total downloads, the second number is unique downloads. Please notice #26.

I am glad to see that podcasts as old as 1 or even 2 years are still downloaded.

Thank You

After two years, what to say? It was a lot of fun, I hope it will not end soon.

I would like to thank everybody that wanted to talk with me. I would probably stop recording podcast if I did not have a lot of help from Watir Podcast Team. A big thank you to all of you that co-hosted a podcast, contributed music and logo, worked on the web site, edited audio… I could not do it without you.

I would like to thank Bret Pettichord for agreeing to record the first podcast, Alan Baird that worked on the web site, and Gregg Yows that co-hosted a lot of times and contributed a lot of music.

I would probably give up a long time ago if Tiffany Fodor did not offer to edit the audio and create show notes. Tiffany, thank you.

Also, a bit thank you to every listener. Yes, you too. Well, if you were not listening, all this would not make a lot of sense.

If you have some time, and you would like to contribute to the podcast, please let me know. I need help with finding guests, co-hosting, I am always looking for music that can be published under a Creative Commons licence… If you would like to take over Watir Podcast, let me know. I would help you with everything. I have other stuff to do, but if nobody is interested, I will not let the podcast die.

I did not mention a lot of people by name, because this blog post would end up being too long. You know who you are. Yes, you. Thanks.

I found a link to Play Pacman with Selenium 2 blog post at Watir General Google group and I decided to try it with Watir.

The best score so far is 3150, but the best score recorded is 2280. Dave says he got to 2660 with Selenium.

The source is on github.com/zeljkofilipin/pacman. Feel free to fork.

I took a few photos, as usual:

For a long, long time I wanted to record 5-10 minute podcasts with speakers and visitors of a conference, and this time I did it! I have recorded 9 podcasts. The first is already published, I plan to publish one podcast a day, until all of them are published. The podcasts are published at Vidi Podkast, but you can listen to them here too. I will update the list as I publish the podcasts.

Feel free to publish the podcasts at your site, they are licensed under a Creative Commons license. I would prefer if you linked to my mp3 files and use the full URL, so I could track the number of downloads (that would save you some bandwidth too), but do what you think is the best.

Vidi Podkast #5: Florian Schießl on LiMux.

Vidi Podkast #6: Andrew Aksyonoff and on Sphinx.

Vidi Podkast #7: Harald Welte on gpl-violations.org and GSM security.

Podcasts in Croatian:

Vidi Podkast #8: Nikola Kapraljević o DORS/CLUC 2010

Vidi Podkast #9: Valent Turković o OpenStreetMap.

Vidi Podkast #10: Albert Novak o PulaFreeAir.

Vidi Podkast #11: Tonimir Kišasondi o sigurnim komunikacijama i tokenima.

Vidi Podkast #12: Vlatko Košturjak o DORS/CLUC 2010.

Vidi Podkast #13: Ivan Voras o NOSQL.

My slides:

I took a photo or two:

My slides:

Video of my talk:

Željko Filipin – Web application testing Showoff from IT showoff on Vimeo.

I took a photo or two: