I Thought You Might Be Interested

The Pure Austin Splash & Dash, a 750m swim followed by a 3k run, is held in quarry lake right behind the office where I work. I’ve taken part in the last two of these (5/20 and 6/17) and it’s been really enjoyable both times. For the last one on 6/17 there were about 116 people and it’s an interesting mix of participants from the very fast, James Bonney in a total time of 19:53, to the not so fast, slowest time was 52:17. However, it’s a self seeded start to the swim so you can start at the front if you think you’re fast or further back if you know you’re not. And afterwards there are hot dogs and beer. It a fantastic fun event.

Another cross post from work. This time talking about overlay types, the dom and deferred binding in GWT 1.5. Also talks about innerText and textContent and looks at how to get gwt to use textContent for Firefox instead of the default implementation.

Just a link to a post I wrote at work on how to implement a -noserver flag for GWTTestCase.

I was a participant on the applications panel at the GWT Voices That Matter conference in San Francisco in December. The video is now available on YouTube.

Just in case anyone else sees this. At work I’m switching over from Bamboo to TeamCity for continuous integration. This means, because of the available machines more than anything else, changing from running the builds on a linux vm to using a Windows one. I was able to run the build process with no problem when logged on to the box but the TeamCity build was failing when it got to the GWTTestCase based tests. A response code of 12004 was being returned from the first ajax call made to the server. This was because the build agent was being run as “nt authority/local system” user which has very restricted network access. Changing to a regular user with network access solved the problem.

Just a post to say Jack & Adam’s is a great store and if you’re looking for a road or tri bike in Austin you should pay them a visit. I bought my bike, a Felt F75, from them last year. That experience was great, they’ve done a great job on the maintenance since, and they organize events like The Rookie Triathlon, and Jack’s Generic Triathlon which are both well organized and fun. All in all excellent. I suppose you could say I’m one of those satisfied customers you read about from time to time.