Pushing the envelope

GUI testing tool. Glen brings up the Marathon Man testing tool. Looks hugely useful. [cwinters.com]

Couldn't pass up this opportunity to divest myself of some news that has seriously impacted my blogging recently. I first heard of Marathon Man at a job interview, from the people who unleashed it on the world: ThoughtWorks. I start there on monday. Woohoo! Can't wait. Working for the people who brought you not only Marathon Man, but also CruiseControl.

I've been bursting to blog about it, which has affected my posting recently. Sorry. I feel much better now.

The Search for the XML Oriented Programming Language.

The Search for the XML Oriented Programming Language. ...  So I predict that 2003 will be the year we all experience the search for the true meaning of "XML oriented programming"!... [TheArchitect.co.uk - Jorgen Thelin's weblog]

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, now that I am reasonably comfortable with it, any time I find myself in need of text processing, I reach for Perl.

I am planning to try and hit Python soon, so I may well start slagging Perl and proclaiming Python as the ultimate language. I do this fairly regularly. Whatever the thing I am currently excited about is, I tend to rave over. Only to drop it like last year's action figure as soon as I find a new shiny toy to play with.