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Windmill 1.3 Released
Windmill 1.3 is the final release before we make some pretty major changes including: auto-waiting, improving running speed, proxy speed, and the addition of full flash integration.
If you rely at all on the speed that Windmill runs tests, then this is your last guaranteed change free release.
However, we have done a lot of work to [...]
Windmill 1.3 Beta Testing
We have an sdist tarball up here: http://getwindmill.com/sdist/windmill-1.3beta1.tar.gz
This has the jquery locator functionality, plenty of bug fixes, but most importantly — this will be the last release before a bunch of new features go in.
Up for a Pint?
I’m in London for the next few days and would love to grab a drink with any community members be you Mozilla, CouchDB, Python, Windmill, JavaScript or just plain old coffee, whisky or beer geeks
Heading to EuroPython
I’m getting all packed up and leaving Sunday for EuroPython in Birmingham, UK.
This will be my first time at EuroPython and my first time in Europe!
I’ll be giving two talks, one on Windmill and one about CouchDB and Python. The Windmill talk will be more or less the talk that I gave at Open Source [...]
Conference Season Begins
I’ll be leaving tomorrow morning for Open Source Bridge in Portland, Oregon.
I’m putting together a new Windmill talk that tries to incorporate all the feedback we’ve received over the last year of speaking which I’ll be presenting
Windmill 1.2 Release with SSL Support
Today, after 5 RC’s we have finally released 1.2.
It’s finally time to:
easy_install -U windmill
Overview
This release now uses a home brewed proxy server, instead of CherryPy allowing us to handle both SSL and binary data like
Windmill 1.2 RC5 - Calling our Community
We just cut the 1.2 RC5 tonight, with another round of great fixes and enhancements. This release is hugely important because it unleashes the SSL functionality on the world. The large code re-factor under the hood changed the way a lot of things work and we need you to run your tests and let us [...]
Windmill Plugin for Hudson
Over the last 6+ months, I have been using Hudson in conjunction with Windmill very heavily for continuous integration. For the most part using the build step specific to whatever the slave OS requires has worked sufficiently well until recently when
PyCon 2009 Recap
Getting back in the swing of things after conferencing for weeks can be pretty painful, thus the lateness of the post. However I think it’s important to go over some thoughts still lingering in my brain as a result.
First off, I have to say that for those of you who don’t know, PyCon is a [...]
Unittesting Sprint on April 8th
We’re going to be doing a unittesting Sprint.
Our goal is to improve the current Windmill unittests in order to reduce regressions and allow us to take on new contributions faster and with greater confidence.
If you’re interested in