Highlighting elements in a Webdriver automated test

So, you use Selenium 2's Webdriver to automate some unit tests in your C# .NET enterprise web application? Me too.  Our list of tests is growing longer and longer, and watching web pages fly by automatically can be amusing - but which element is being looked for, or clicked?  Can you highlight the element before Webdriver clicks on it?

Sharing iTunes apps for free

There are various instructions on sharing iTunes apps between different devices used by different people (linked to different iTunes accounts).  I just discovered how to do it without manually copying files between computers, so long as you can enable "Home Sharing" between your various devices.

Dennis Ritchie

The tributes to Dennis Ritchie won’t match the river of praise that spilled out over the web after the death of Steve Jobs. But they should. 

And then some.

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/10/thedennisritchieeffect/

ASP DX GridView Command Column buttons per-row visibilty

The DevExpress GridView used for showing a list of data objects has a neat Command Column in which you can put a delete button, or edit button (and others).  On clicking this button the related data source event is fired, adding, deleting, or updating the required object.

Command Column showing the Delete button

If only all EULAs were this good!

I installed some MS fonts in Ubuntu recently, and this is the EULA I was presented with:

If only all EULAs were this good!