You’re welcome to try it out and tell me what you think.  It’s free

http://kanno41.com/AeroBattery/AeroBatterySetup.exe

For the airport’s intranet site, I created a CodedUI test using Visual Studio 2010 Premium to exercise the user interface for a particular page.  It consisted of opening up the browser, clicking on links, Assert()ing that they existed and that everything is working as it should.  A CodedUI test can then be “played back” when the tests are run.

Now on to the next bit.  I am using Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 for Source Control, Work Item management, and Building.  What’s really slick is being able to utilize the TFS server to build the project.  I defined a build specification so that it would work like a Continuous Integration (CI) system.  Whenever code is checked in, the server will build the code and copy the binaries to a directory.  If the build fails, the code is rejected.

So what makes this even more awesome, is that with Visual Studio Test Agent, I can run CodedUI tests on a separate test machine from my Visual Studio instance.

Recently, I have been granted access to the network over VPN.  VPN is Virtual Private Networking.  Basically, anywhere there is internet, I can access the servers on the airport’s local network without physically being there.

So there I was, sitting at home drinking coffee.  I pull out my laptop at the kicthen table and connect through VPN (no wires or anything, wireless is cool beans), and decide to make a quick change to the code of the intranet site.  When I check in my code, the TFS server all the way over at the airport builds the code, copies the build to the test machine, runs the CodedUI test on the test machine, delivers the result to the build server and then TFS accepts the new code (Changeset).

I think that’s really slick.  It’s truly mind boggling to think of all the underlying technology it takes for that to just “work.”  And this is why I really love technology.

Well, that’s all for another year!  See ya next time.

I’m going to go to bed now.  I think I need it pretty desperately at the moment.

The most exciting thing going on this coming week is Microsoft PDC out in LA.  I look forward to having a whole week of pure techawesomeness (is that even a word?!?!).  While in LA, I will get my hands on a pre-beta version of Windows 7!  I am looking forward also to using the Microsoft Surface while I am there.

Lately I have been too busy with classes to handle many other projects.  I am currently working on an XNA project with a friend up at Bowling Green who is doing all of the artwork and modeling for the game while I do the programming.

I simply can’t believe that we are nearing the end of October already.  It is getting quite a bit colder outside, but that’s okay, I like it cold.  It’s 43degrees outside yet you’d see me in shorts and a T-shirt.  Along with other ramblings, Top Gun in Bluray with 1080p is amazing.  It was quite a brilliant idea to include a Bluray player in every PS3.  I would expect it to be a pretty well-selling item this Christmas.  In Apple’s infinite brilliance, none of their computers have support for Bluray or even HDMI for that matter.

I will likely update this blog a bit next week with all of the coolness going on at PDC, so yea, back to coding like a good little boy for me.

I will have more content later.

I haven’t updated my blog in a while for a few reasons. I’ve been working, sleeping, and breathing. Not much else. I suppose I just had to take a break from blogging for the winter. Happy 2008 everyone! It’s official, I have been accepted the The Ohio State University at Marion. I hope it will be an exciting time to meat new people. I’m winding down the last couple of months of my high school career. In election news, I was a poll worker for election day in Ohio. An awful lot of Republicans sabotaged the Democratic Primary. Hehehehe. *Cough* anyway, 15 hours of working at the polls was very enjoyable for me.

I don’t have much else to say, other than we have a snow day tomorrow. I believe we set a record for most snow in 24 hours yesterday. I’m so thankful for furnaces and gas heat is all I can say.

Take care.

I’ll try to explain the best way to bypass security policies of AJAX.  Lets say you want to pass on a variable to a PHP script.  You could use GET parameters from the URL that looks something like this

http://domain.com/index.php?woot=kanno41
The final goal is to pass kanno41 or some variable to a PHP script unobtrusively.  What a dynamic script tag does is that it creates a script tag which can access a source file from ANY domain.  Here is an example of what the script will put on the page:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://domain.com/index.php?woot=kanno41"></script>
When this script is loaded, the “woot” variable with the value kanno41 will be passed onto the index.php file. Now, what if you don’t know what variable you want to send yet on page load, or you want someone clicking on something to send that data? This is where the dynamic script tag comes in. It is merely simple javascript.

<script type="text/javascript"> 
function mkscr(url){               
var script=document.createElement('script'); // pretty self explanatory               
script.src=url; // sets the scripts source to the specified url               
script.type="text/javascript";

document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script); // appends the tag to the head          
}
</script>

When we run this function and pass a URL to it, it will build the script tag which we mentioned earlier. To run a function, let’s do something like this, for something simple:
<input type="button" onclick="mkscr(http://domain.com/index.php?woot=kanno41);" />

This will cause a script from any another server or domain to be loaded right when you would click on that button. In my case, since I am making the script’s source be a PHP script, I pass on the “woot” variable with the value kanno41. When this is loaded, the PHP file will be able to get anything passed to it through the GET parameters.What if you want to pass on something which could change all of the time? Just make a little script like this one for example:

<script type="text/javascript"> 
//Take the HTML fromm the element with the id rawr  
var yea = document.getElementById("rawr").innerHTML; 
//Set up the URL to load for the script
urlstr = "http://domain.com/index.php?woot="+yea;         
//Use the mkscr function to create a script tag that will load with a dynamic variable from JS.

mkscr(urlstr);  
</script>

To me, this is a revelation. I can now send any variables to a PHP script through this method.

For me, I would have the PHP script return some javascript back, maybe something like

<?php 
$woo = $_GET['woot'];
//You are using this as a javascript file, so echo out any JS you want to.
//I used an alert() just because I felt like it
echo "alert('$woo')";
?>

I hope you’ve enjoyed reading this and maybe you learned something, or maybe you didn’t. Feel free to ask questions about this. Some stuff may not wrap correctly, but there’s nothing I can do about that.