Monthly Archives: March 2010

Taking your cucumber tests back to the future with Delorean

March 31, 2010 – 12:28 pm

I’m currently working on an API for Vquence’s VQdata product which allows our customers to use a REST interface to retrieve videos with certain keywords they have previously stored. While writing tests I need to be able to mock out the Time object so that my tests were deterministic relative to time. I remembered listening [...]

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Careful what you call your server!

March 1, 2010 – 10:09 am

I was setting up a server recently and I was using KVM to virtualise a whole lot of hosts. Being fairly unimaginative I decided to call the machine kvm. As usual I used LVM for the disks. Now on Ubuntu this means that by default the VG will be called the same as the host [...]

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