Mitch Fincher: The Distracted Programmer

I ran into a problem using Watir - it could not find a frame that is really on the page. I got this error: c:/opt/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/ge...

To upgrade my daughter's ancient Dell to Ubuntu I wanted add to its 128 Meg memory with some SDRAM PC100 256Meg chips. I bought some at...

I prefer solaris and linux, but like many working stiffs I do Microsoft to pay the bills. Sometimes I get frustrated by the pitiful quality...

I'm a luddite. For the past decade to move files to my hosted computer I've used manual ftp command lines or mounting a directory i...

I just started using Watir to do GUI testing of web apps and am blown-away. Watir is so easy to use. I wrote my first script from the exa...

Argghhh. Are journalists just getting stupid? From the Oct 1, 2007 issue in Time magazine on page 30: "This summer, however, saw some...

Since Windows 98 is no longer a safe OS, this Saturday I guided my 11 year old daughter through the Ubuntu dual-boot install using this guid...