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May 2009
Pex - Automated White box Testing for .NET
by ms_michel
(via)
Pex finds interesting input-output values of your methods, which you can save as a small test suite with high code coverage. Pex performs a systematic analysis, hunting for boundary conditions, exceptions and assertion failures, which you can debug right away.
Automating the Generation and Secure Distribution of Excel Reports | ITworld
by ERSWeb
(via)
Microsoft Excel is one of the most commonly used tools for reporting, analysis and "what if" scenarios, with over 250 million users worldwide. This paper will discuss the steps involved in understanding the requirements for an automated solution. It will also introduce a solution for automating the generation and secure distribution of spreadsheet reports.
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March 2009
Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Rsync
by sylvainulg
& 9 others
(via)
As of rsync-2.5.6, the --link-dest option is now standard! That can be used instead of the separate cp -al and rsync stages, and it eliminates the ownerships/permissions bug. I now recommend using it. Also, I'm proud to report this article is mentioned in Linux Server Hacks, a new (and very good, in my opinion) O'Reilly book by compiled by Rob Flickenger.
Test automation with OperaWatir - By Opera Core Concerns
by karlcow
To make sure new versions of our browser core are of sufficient quality before making their way into any of our products, we run more than 100,000 automated tests on a number of different reference configurations every time we have a new build.
February 2009
A Lexical Analyzer for HTML and Basic SGML
by karlcow
a self-contained specification of a lexical analyzer that uses automated parsing techniques to handle SGML document types limited to a tractable set of SGML features. An implementation is available as well.
Evaluation of automated subject classification
by karlcow
It was shown that for best results all the elements have to be included in the classification process. The exact way of combining the significance indicators turned out not to be overly important: using the F1 measure, the best combination of significance indicators yielded no more than 3 % higher performance results than the baseline.
FeedFire.com: RSS feed creation facility: End your RSS worries RIGHT NOW.
by jallatte
& 14 others
Would you like to create RSS feeds without ANY programming or technical knowledge at all?
FeedFire will take virtually any web page and convert it into a fully formed and fully coded RSS feed.
FeedFire is a sophisticated solution that is really simple to use. It is powerful, automated and customisable. You can easily turn ANY page into a RSS feed, without ANY programming.
You can also search our large database of channels, which are conveniently categorised for you.
January 2009
FUSBi - Free USB Installer
by m.meixide
FUSBi, the Free USB Installer, downloads free GNU/Linux Distributions for you and creates bootable USB images.
FUSBi supports automated installation of of all the FSF-endorsed Free Software GNU/Linux Distributions, such as gNewSense, UTUTO, Dynebolic, Musix GNU+Linux, BLAG and GNUstep. You can also use it with your local image files.
FUSBi is a Free Software itself and is licensed under GNU General Public License version 3 or later.
ODP - Open Directory Project
by Emaux
& 17 others
The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.
The Republic of the Web
The web continues to grow at staggering rates. Automated search engines are increasingly unable to turn up useful results to search queries. The small paid editorial staffs at commercial directory sites can't keep up with submissions, and the quality and comprehensiveness of their directories has suffered. Link rot is setting in and they can't keep pace with the growth of the Internet.
Instead of fighting the explosive growth of the Internet, the Open Directory provides the means for the Internet to organize itself. As the Internet grows, so do the number of net-citizens. These citizens can each organize a small portion of the web and present it back to the rest of the population, culling out the bad and useless and keeping only the best content.
December 2008
:: CWSandbox - Automated Malware Analysis ::
by cascamorto
CWSandbox - Behavior-based Malware Analysis : CWSandbox is an approach to automatically analyze malware which is based on behavior analysis: malware samples are executed for a finite time in a simulated environment, where all system calls are closely monitored. From these observations, CWSandbox is able to automatically generate a detailed report which greatly simplifies the task of a malware analyst.
2to3 - Automated Python 2 to 3 code translation — Python v2.6.1 documentation
by karlcow
2to3 is a Python program that reads Python 2.x source code and applies a series of fixers to transform it into valid Python 3.x code.
November 2008
FeedFire.com: RSS feed creation facility: End your RSS worries RIGHT NOW.
by camel
& 14 others
Would you like to create RSS feeds without ANY programming or technical knowledge at all?
FeedFire will take virtually any web page and convert it into a fully formed and fully coded RSS feed.
FeedFire is a sophisticated solution that is really simple to use. It is powerful, automated and customisable. You can easily turn ANY page into a RSS feed, without ANY programming.
You can also search our large database of channels, which are conveniently categorised for you.
Code Intensity: SVN Externals are Evil; Use Piston or Braid
by greut
the evil is SVN itself not handling changing of externals (i.e. to/from an external) in basic operations like updates and merges, which may cause a lot of manual work on your end, and break automated builds or similar.
wondering about massively usage of it.
Documentation en français disponible pour FAN, Fully Automated Nagios - Weblogue de Cédric Temple
by camel
(via)
Manuel OZAN a pris l'excellente initiative d'écrire une documentation sur FAN, Fully Automated Nagios. Celle-ci est disponible sur le site, dans une page dédiée. Cette documentation est en français, sous licence Creative Commons by-nc-sa. Ce qui signifie que vous avez le droit de l'utiliser, la modifier et la redistribuer tout en conservant la paternité et sans la revendre. N'hésitez pas si vous souhaitez participer à son amélioration, nous serions ravi de les publier.
October 2008
Multiple Blogs– Wordpress Direct Review
by jbshort
Wordpress Direct is a new product in a long line of automated Internet marketing systems that seem to be in vogue now. My guess is that these automated systems are popular because there are so many new marketers who are trying to quickly get their piece of the pie.
September 2008
ThreatExpert - Automated Threat Analysis
by cascamorto
ThreatExpert is an advanced automated threat analysis system designed to analyze and report the behavior of computer viruses, worms, trojans, adware, spyware, and other security-related risks in a fully automated mode.
In only a few minutes ThreatExpert can process a sample and generate a highly detailed threat report with the level of technical detail that matches or exceeds antivirus industry standards such as those normally found in online virus encyclopedias.
Sweetcron - The Automated Lifestream Blog Software
by tokitama
& 3 others
TwitterやDelicious,flickrやLast.FmなどなどWeb上の日々の活動をまとめてくれるライフストリーミングツール
Vitamin Features » Easy Automated Web Application Testing with Hudson and Selenium
by holyver
& 3 others
Developing web applications is getting more complex - it’s easy to accidentally break functionality as changes are made. In this article, Ben describes the setup his team uses test their apps as changes are committed; automatically notifying the developers of any problems.
