Non-Latinate Characters Coming In Domain Names
October 26th, 2009
So says ICANN. How long will it be before we start seeing phishing scams for visiting Microsoƒt.com?
And, more importantly, how many people will fall for it?
All joking aside, this could open up a huge jug of hurt for end-users. End-users have become completely used to a basic basic Latin character set & are wholly unaware of the variations that can occur. Whilst my example above is blindingly obvious, less obvious examples—such as using the dot-less ‘i’ in Turkish— could cause no end of problems. Don’t get me wrong, this is a necessary step; it’s merely a question of how we cope with the change.
Yet more Cucumber Tagging
October 1st, 2009
Cucumber now comes with some rake tasks to help you out on your road to tag-happiness.
rake cucumber:ok will run any scenarios not tagged with @wip
rake cucumber:wip will run any scenarios tagged with @wip and if there are more than 2 of them, or any pass, it will complain. That's not as bad as it sounds, it can be handy info.
I added ~@pending tag to the rake tasks as I wrote some features to sort out later; I don't want them executing and don't want to delete or move them. Why record the ideas in another place, they'll just get lost.
