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My test suite was failing because selenium-webdriver 2.41.0 doesn’t support sendKeys for <input type=’number’> with Firefox 29.  But downgrading my system Firefox to an older version just to run a test suite seems crazy.  Why not just download an older … Continue reading →

I wanted to be able to run headless integration tests in a nodejs app that require users to log in.  I’m using Mozilla Persona for authentication, which means that a full login and authorization workflow is a little complex: Given … Continue reading →

For a web application I’m developing, I wanted to be able to allow mobile users to seamlessly push a button on the web page, take a photo, and post that photo to the page. Since the W3C draft specification for … Continue reading →

To all the apathetic defeatists who won’t delete their search data: your threat model is wrong. Yes, it sucks that your personal details are already owned and exploited by major corporations. And I agree, aggressively protecting yourself against this may … Continue reading →

TL;DR: I tried out four different Django social authentication and registration packages. The only one that worked out of the box was django-allauth, though django-social-auth looks like it could be promising. django-allauth is the only one that supports username/password registration … Continue reading →