What am I up to?
All of a sudden people have kept coming up and asking me what I'm up to, and whether I'm still involved with Pitch Space. I thought it was worth a quick post to bring things up to date. In short: No, I'm not involved with Pitch Space anymore, and haven't been since December last year, and what I'm up to is doing web application development and consultancy through my company, Constituent Parts.
Snow Leopard, Firefox, and Selenium
I've got a longer post about setting up your Cucumber/Selenium environment coming, but since this is a hot issue I'd thought I'd address it. In short: There's a problem running the firefox.sh script on Mac OS X 10.6, which is the definitive way for things to invoke Firefox. [Selenium RC] [1] runs firefox.sh to run tests, and Cucumber in turn uses Selenium RC. The result is that if you use Cucumber with Selenium and upgrade to 10.6, all your Selenium tests fail. The problem is detailed in Firefox's [Bugzilla bug #513747] [2] and Selenium's [bug SRC-743] [2a]. After a bit of poking about, I found a workaround. It's not great but it does get you going again...
NoSQL EU
There's just over a week to go until NoSQL Europe, our conference about NoSQL technologies, and how you use them. We've got a fantastic line up, including keynotes from Amazon's Werner Vogels, The Guardian's Matt Wall; speakers from Twitter, The BBC, Rackspace, Basho, 10gen, Neo Technology and many others over 2 days. We have some fantastic workshops lined up on Riak, MongoDB, Redis, and Neo4J, from members of their development teams or core contributors.