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Getting to Know Fiddler: Part IV: Simulate responses by engaging Fiddler's AutoResponders
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joshuarogers.net
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11 years ago
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eng
Last week we figured out how to use Fiddler's breakpoints to let us edit traffic at will. While it is a powerful tool, if we are making the same edits each time, it can become as tedious as it is useful. And with that rather painful segue, we get to the AutoResponder. Fiddler's AutoResponder is represented by yet another tab hiding away in our detail view. When enabled, it can, among other things, automatically return a response for a given..
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No really, that’s what it’s called: shortly after World War II, Erhard and Sons began manufacturing Albert Friedrich’s vehicle for primarily agricultural use in post-war Germany until Mercedes-Benz took over the production process in the early 1950s. Since then, the Unimog has fostered quite the fanatical fan base, not unlike that of its counterparts across the world, the American Jeep, British Land Rover, or Japanese Land Cruiser. And lo..
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A file recently turned up from an external partner. Our software was having problems parsing it. I opened it up in TextPad (text editor for Windows) and everything looked fine. Obviously I consider our software to be perfect so I was a little perplexed as how this file could be causing problems… It turned out there were newline issues. Opening the file in a hex editor revealed the file used \n\n\r for newlines, i.e. 3 bytes.
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For some reason, Oracle blocked the installers to run only on a fixed OSX version range with a nice and explanatory error message. This range doesn’t include Yosemite, which makes sense, since nobody running Yosemite will ever want to write some Java. Anyway, here is how to fix it.
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I have decided to publish this a day early this week, as I leave for Canada in just a few hours and waiting any longer would make this impossible. Until I return on the sixteenth, then, enjoy this final installment of my ongoing series, This Week in Podcasts. I look forward to coming home and finding a host of shows awaiting my arrival almost as much as I anticipate writing this piece’s successor. Permalink.
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Once again, I’m back with some stellar cabins from around the world. This time, however, unlike past articles in this series and upon request by Gianfranco Lanzio , I have bundled images alongside the appropriate paragraphs in an effort at more easily conveying the beauty of these structures and their accompanying sceneries. I hope you all like the result just as much as I do, and maybe — just maybe — even more. Permalink.
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The other day, I accidentally printed a ton of binary data to my terminal. Upon doing so, my computer started to beep incessantly.
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The other day, I accidentally printed a ton of binary data to my terminal. Upon doing so, my computer started to beep incessantly.
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Hello friends. Yesterday I finished the 5th level! It took much longer than anticipated because it's actually 10 separate maps connected together. It includes some simple but hopefully interesting puzzle mechanics. It also advances the story through notes and several text conversations scattered throughout. It's hard to see in screenshots, but I added a subtle cloud shadow effect as well. It doesn't respond to the actual cloud..
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I’ve found that a lot of people don’t know how powerful the Chrome Developer Tools are, especially when paired with the Ember Inspector. I recorded this short screencast to show a handful of tricks you can use when debugging Ember.js applications: The source code to the Bug Tracker project is on github .
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As I followed along with the 9.4 release of Postgres I had a few posts of things that I was excited about, some things that missed, and a bit of a wrap-up. I thought this year (year in the sense of PG releases) I’d jump the gun and lay out areas I’d love to see addressed in PostgreSQL 9.5. And here it goes: Upsert Merge/Upsert/Insert or Update whatever you want to call it this is still a huge wart that it doesn’t exist. There’s be....
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As I followed along with the 9.4 release of Postgres I had a few posts of things that I was excited about, some things that missed, and a bit of a wrap-up. I thought this year (year in the sense of PG releases) I’d jump the gun and lay out areas I’d love to see addressed in PostgreSQL 9.5. And here it goes: Upsert Merge/Upsert/Insert or Update whatever you want to call it this is still a huge wart that it doesn’t exist. There’s be....
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Hi, This is similar to my post around Azure Storage Integration testing just with a mongo twist. I’ve been working with mongo and didn’t really like the debugging workflow: Do something, start mongovue and manually check the item changed in the way you thought it would. I’ve written a set of extensions to allow a nice set of declarative fluent assertions about the state of the MongoDB after an action has been performed.
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Comment on Redis Sentinel at Flickr by ObjectRocket Adds Fully-Managed Redis Service - Web Hosting Blog
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code.flickr.net
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11 years ago
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eng
in the open source community. It is deployed at scale at several major companies, including Flickr, which uses automated Redis master failover for an important subsystem, and Pinterest, which uses Redis for its following model and interest […]
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A few weeks ago at lunch I had the opportunity to catch up with a company in the current YC batch, building something very similar to dataclips. While we talked about a lot of things from what we’ve learned from dataclips, marketing, and other areas. One area we talked about was product and when to ship vs. when to kill things and I realized I hadn’t talked on my fairly simple but clear view on this publicly, so here it is. A large credi....
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A few weeks ago at lunch I had the opportunity to catch up with a company in the current YC batch, building something very similar to dataclips. While we talked about a lot of things from what we’ve learned from dataclips, marketing, and other areas. One area we talked about was product and when to ship vs. when to kill things and I realized I hadn’t talked on my fairly simple but clear view on this publicly, so here it is. A large credi....
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Found the following comment in some code I had modified a few years ago. Just to set this up, its an existing application I had no hand in creating, and is a totally atrocity of 180,000 lines of untested code (and pretty much un-testable) which through the abuse of extension methods lives in a single class spread out across multiple files. /* This is evil but necessary. For some reason people have put validation rules here rather then in....
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It was a chilly summer evening when Valeros the valiant fighter and Merisiel the super cool rogue walked through the gates of a tiny abandoned farmhouse. They were heroes, you see, and here to rescue the people of the land from a gang of notorious thieving wanderers - the Sczarni - who have been terrorizing Sandpoint under the leadership of a punk named Jubrayl Vhiski.
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Getting to Know Fiddler: Part III: Use breakpoints to edit live requests
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joshuarogers.net
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11 years ago
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eng
One of the great things about using an API is that it implies that I can use functionality that I don't have to write myself. I can write an app that live tweets driving directions between two random Yelp reviews without ever having to directly know how the tweeting or directing is taking place. As long as I stick to the API, I can pretty much accept that the API's functionality should usually “just work”.
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It's been about four years since we last took on a new project as a company. Work continued for existing clients for a long time after that, but the company itself was basically dead from that point. I was on vacation with my family last week and somewhat reflecting on exactly how I got there after ending up in a hospital bed in the middle of the night four years ago trying to keep it going. Here's how it happened. NOTE: I still personally ..
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Today I tell you a story about one tricky bug. The bug is a tricky one because it doesn’t allow me to debug my application on Mondays. I’m serious right now: the debug mode doesn’t work every Monday. Furthermore, the bug literally tell me: “Happy Monday!”. So, the story. It was a wonderful Sunday evening, no signs of trouble. We planned to release a new version of our software (a minor one, but it includes some useful features). Midnight ..
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Today I tell you a story about one tricky bug. The bug is a tricky one because it doesn’t allow me to debug my application on Mondays. I’m serious right now: the debug mode doesn’t work every Monday. Furthermore, the bug literally tell me: “Happy Monday!”. So, the story. It was a wonderful Sunday evening, no signs of trouble. We planned to release a new version of our software (a minor one, but it includes some useful features). Midnight ..
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DOM Comparator is a JavaScript library that analyzes and compares two HTML strings, and returns back a diff object. It returns an output…
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So, you switched to Gradle and just finished you new shiny Android library (or java library). And of course you want to share it with the community. Here’s a quick guide for those who never published their libraries before. What is maven central? In java world libraries are usually stored in a big repository called Maven Central. You may think of it as of the NPM repository for Node.js or as of PyPI for Python.
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So, you switched to Gradle and just finished you new shiny Android library (or java library). And of course you want to share it with the community. Here’s a quick guide for those who never published their libraries before. What is maven central? In java world libraries are usually stored in a big repository called Maven Central. You may think of it as of the NPM repository for Node.js or as of PyPI for Python.
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This week was a lot of level design. I'm working on a group of "fractured" but interconnected worlds that the player has to progress through. Here's a screenshot: Here's the thread where I got that rock texture. It's a gold mine with a bunch of totally free diffuse, specular, normal, and even displacement maps. Unfortunately that's all I have time to talk about today. Thanks for reading!
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Wolfling run : “a method of playing the Creatures games in which the players do not intervene in the lives of their norns.” Creatures wiki .
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Strange bedfellows: how a web-tier validation framework enables strongly typed, big data pipelines
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themodernlife.net
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11 years ago
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eng
The other day I was talking with a colleague about data validation and the Play web framework came up. Play has a nice API for validating HTML form and JSON submissions. This works great when you’re processing small amounts of data from the web-tier of your application. But could that same tech benefit a Big Data team working on a backend powered by Hadoop or Spark ? We decided to find out and the results were encouraging. The secr....
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This summer has been the most significant in my life. While I don’t often write about personal matters in this blog, I will make an exception. On July 12th my son Leon was born. Healthy, happy and obviously, from the perspective a father, perfect. Going through this fundamental life change has made me decide to re-evaluate a lot of things. Most importantly, I wanted to evaluate my career. In the last few years, I have spread my focus thin.
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Even though I’ve had a functional breeding system in Gastropoda for a while, it still isn’t actually done . Most common snails do not give birth to live young…and definitely not to one live young. Initially it was good to just have the snails pop out one live baby snail so that I could properly observe and test the genetics and other attributes generated for the newborn. Now, however, with that being well on track, it is time to implemen..
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