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Using Selenium IDE and Sideflow to log in to a Drupal 7 site
My team has been looking into the Firefox add-on Selenium IDE as a quick and simple way to create automated tests for our Drupal sites. Selenium IDE out of the box does not support conditionals, making it hard to account for unexpected behaviour. For instance, it's easy to make a test of the basic Drupal login functionality, but if the user is already logged in when running that test (a common scenario when working on a site), the test will fail. The solution to this is called Sideflow.
Johanna Lindh - 2013|05|16 - 2 commentsOpenBelgium donated to the Open Knowledge Foundation
Three years ago we've launched the OpenBelgium.be website to support the growth of Open Data in Belgium. Today we hand over the keys of the website to the Open Knowledge Foundation in Belgium so they can use it for their cause.
Roel De Meester - 2013|05|02 - 0 commentsVideo: Live Commit of Major Drupal 8 Patch
A key patch for the Drupal 8 Configuration Managment was commited live on stage at the end of day 1 of Frontend United in London.
Steve Parks - 2013|04|14Talking about Drupal 8 and plugins in Glasgow
On April 20th I am going to give my session about Drupal 8 and plugins for the third time - and the third version of the session - Drupal 8 is still a work in progress and some stuff keep changing.
Mikke Schirén - 2013|04|11Drupal Dev Days Dublin
A milestone event for the development of Drupal 8 takes place in Dublin in June.
Steve Parks - 2013|04|04How JavaScript charts compare to static image charts
Interactive charts for data visualization have undergone several waves of evolution over the years, yet they have not reached maturity for widespread use.
Miķelis Zaļais - 2013|03|27Yes, you can have both the files from production and your music collection locally! Sort of.
So you’re working on a site where the files folder on production is umpteen GBs and you want to save space on your disk for pictures, mp3s, movies and other important data. You might use the dummyimage module, but all those cat pictures might get tiring. You may also want to have real pictures from the production site showing up, with the correct size.
Bernt Andreas Drange - 2013|03|26Pi Day special: Drupal pie chart with Visualization API and Highcharts
Recently I was faced with the task of making a chart showing the distribution of tags on nodes of a certain type. My team agreed that a pie chart was the way to go, and so I set to work ... only to discover that there's a ton and a half of chart-related Drupal modules out there to choose from! Thankfully, my awesome team member Hjalmar quickly pointed me in the direction of Visualization API and the Highcharts JavaScript library. In this video I'll show you how to use these tools to solve the task.
Johanna Lindh - 2013|03|14Screencast: Semantic panels
Semantic panels is for Panels what Semantic Views is for Views - better control of the markup.
Mikke Schirén - 2013|02|21Netbeans saved me from my own stupidity
So I did some work on the Drupal module Semantic fields, to make it exportable. Did some patches, uploaded them and everything seemed ok, not so much activity in the issue queue so nobody else tested my stuff. So I deleted my folder with Semantic fields so I could test the patches myself. Then I realised I forgot to add important files to my patches - the new files with the exportability.
Mikke Schirén - 2013|02|12