Morten Nielsen

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How Easy-to-Test Systems Elevate Software Quality

Discover how systems designed for easy unit testing not only enhance software quality but also enable safer refactoring and faster development cycles. Dive into the critical role of unit testing in fostering innovation and maintaining robust software architectures.

Randomized testing with Selenium - Click Monkey

This post is a long time coming. Introducing Click Monkey A few months ago while I was down with a man cold. I started experimenting with sending randomized input to a web browser. The goal was to create a standalone solution (or tool) to click random buttons and links in

Detecting broken links for Selenium and webdriver on Node.js

Yesterday I wrote a blogpost [https://www.morten.software/2016/08/16/controlling-a-browser-through-node/] on how I'm writing a small node "application" that controls a webbrowser. Yesterday I set things up so I can control the browser. Today I'm taking it one step further. For

Controlling a browser through Node.js

I've had an idea in my head for a few years now, that I recently decided to explore. To get started one of the first steps I had to do was to get a basic program that controls a browser. At work we're doing this using

Convention based tests using Jasmine preventing common errors in HTML templates

Problem statement We keep getting bugs introduced due to typos or small errors in the way we bind our views to our view models. There is also a set of problems where given the choice we occasionally choose, by mistake, a different kind of binding causing slight differences in behavior

Constructing a light-saber - battling a bootstrap multi-select component

Struggling with a slow bootstrap-multiselect component? Learn why building a custom multi-select was a better solution for us, using just 80 lines of JavaScript, and how it improved performance and reduced dependencies. Dive into the details and elevate your coding game!

Switched blog platform

Those of you who follow my RSS feed might have noticed a few updates of old posts. Sorry about that. It's because I've switched blogging platform from WordPress to Ghost.io. Morkeleb.com is now hosted on Ghost.io's infrastructure and I've

Tools

Remapping home and end in mountain lion

So I’m used to a certain behavior for the home and end buttons on my logitech edge keyboard. Jumping to the end or the beginning of the page is not the behavior I expect, so after being stung by this sudden change of the entire screen a few times.

Mac

Changing the default location for screenshots in Mac OS X

Again, an old draft that for some reason never was published. It’s short, but helpful. I got annoyed at where my new Mac put the screenshots I captured. They were on the desktop which I found to be the wrong place for Pictures. I found this helpful page [http:

PowerShell

Running PowerShell scripts from a fileshare

Since I wrote it I’ve started using Parallels and stopped having my powershell scripts in a fileshare. But the information is usefull none the less. I set up my Mac with running all my .Net development in a VirtualBox environment. I share my source-code directory to the guest OS

JavaScript

View source on the IPad

The IPad is a nice tool for surfing the web from your sofa. However if your like me and sometimes want to check out how certain things are done it’s missing a vital feature. It’s missing a view source functionallity. So I Googled for it and found the

Continuous Delivery

Why not use puppet for installing applications?

I was asked this question during a talk I had on Continous delivery I held at GTUG Stockholm (which apparentlly is changing its name). “Why not use puppet for installing the application software”. I was a bit perplexed, because, were not installing our software using puppet, and to me, puppet

Testing

Switching from MSTest to NUnit script

We’ve been using MSTest for quite some time but now it’s time for change. First of the reasons for changing unit testing framework. We’re now building with Hudson/Jenkins which NUnit integrates better with. According to rumours NUnit is faster than MSTest. In the long run hopefully

Testing

Running tests on filechange

Ever since I saw a video of Corey Haines [http://coreyhaines.com/] running Autospec I’ve been looking for an option to automatically run my tests when files change. So here is a list of different solutions. I found a python package that allows me to do what I wanted

Microsoft

System.ArgumentException when drawing bitmaps in WPF from WinForms

We’ve been having this annoying crash going on for a while. We’ve seen it show up in Eqatec Analytics [http://eqatec.com/Analytics/Home.aspx] for a while, but since the stacktrace never had any of our code in it, we we’re a bit perplexed of what

Conferences

Talking at Internet Dagarna in Stockholm

I’m talking about RemoteX HTML5 offline capable web app at Internet Dagarna [http://www.internetdagarna.se/ind12/program/seminarium/132] in Stockholm the 22-24th October. Feel free to come and listen

analytics

A poor mans metrics

Everyone wants metrics these days, but it takes a while to invest in good quality metrics for your software. However, if your running a javascript based single app page, or well mostly any webpage. You could use Google Analytics to get some basic quality metrics. What can we measure? So

Microsoft

MessageQueue.Send() crashes if called by multiple threads

I found this bug which was caused in our REST-API at RemoteX which was a bit strange. It was an InvalidCastException being thrown inside Microsofts MSMQ libraries. So a quick Google found this following reported issue: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/94943/messagequeue-send-crashes-if-called-by-multiple-threads In short, in a threaded

Tools

Travis-CI soon in beta

There is this ci project I’ve been following with some interest, sadly I havn’t had the chance to try it out since it’s only for open-source software. It seems however, that that is about to change! They are opening up a beta access program for Travis-CI, which

linq2sql

When working with dbml files: Error 396 Name cannot begin with the '<' character, hexadecimal value 0x3C. Line 2, position 2.

Just ran into an issue where I couldn’t open a dbml file. Didn’t find any good answers on Google so I thought I’d share. I broken the dbml.layout file by not cleaning it properly during a merge, all I had to do was delete the content

Google

Google Iphone Calendar Selector

I got an IPad a while back, and something was always bothering me with it. It had this really nice looking calendar application that was useless because it only showed one of my 5 google calendars. Turns out Google tought of that. You need to navigate to their Google Iphone

blog

Blogging with Vim

Since I noticed there is a lack of blogging tools for the mac I decided to try out blogging using Vim. After Markus Anvhe responded I should try out vim I did some research on it. It turns out that I can blog using markdown, and the post it to

Tools

Blogging tool for Mac OS X Lion

So I’ve been searching for a blogging to ol for mac OS X lion. I’ve found Blogo which seems to support most of what I want but it didn’t work for the new version of Mac OS X. So now I’m testing out an application called

People

Keeping knowledge workers loyal

In a previous post I discussed how to keep knowledge workers motivated [https://www.morten.software/2011/08/22/keeping-knowledge-workers-motivated/]. There is a flipside to keeping them motivated because being motivated is only enough the keep the knowledge worker working well, but it might not prevent him or her from

People

Keeping knowledge workers motivated

I went through a rough spot recently, which caused me to look more closely at the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs] theory. This post describes what I found out in a non-personal way because I think this can be