Author Archives: David Linse

CasperJS – fail test with custom testcase-name in xml report

Posted on 2014/08/17 by David Linse

It took some time, but my PR to CasperJS has landed. Now you can fail a test with a custom value for a testcase node’s name property like: casper.test.fail(‘A custom message’, {name: ‘custom name’}); tl;dr When using the –xunit=/path/to/report.xml casperjs … Continue reading →

Posted in javascript | Tagged , | 1 Comment

‘grunt-complexity-updater’ for nodejs

Posted on 2014/07/13 by David Linse

grunt-complexity-updater is a a little grunt-task that want to help you in multiple ways during development. It utilizes grunt-complexity to: break your build if maintainability drops below a given threshold and will auto-update the overall-maintainability with lowest detected maintainability in … Continue reading →

Posted in javascript, nodejs | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Word wise navigation in iTerm2

Posted on 2014/02/27 by David Linse

Navigating in the terminal can be quite cumbersome but there are “Escape Sequences” to the rescue. Open the preference pane of “iTerm2″ (or just hit CMD + ,) and go to the “Profiles” menu. There you should find a tab … Continue reading →

Posted in howto | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

picks of the month #1

Posted on 2014/01/22 by David Linse

picks of the month (#1) You want to stay in your editor even while committing, merging or diff‘n your git-based project ? Then you really should have a look at this awesome looking plugin for Sublime Text. sublimerge – A … Continue reading →

Posted in javascript, picks of the month | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

picks of the week (#47)

Posted on 2013/11/23 by David Linse

Not much this week .. picks of the week (#47) www.michael-noll.com – A little nice tutorial how to get word-by-word cursor movement in iTerm2

Posted in pick of the week, stuff | Tagged , , | Leave a comment