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#29 Bret Pettichord and Charley Baker on Past, Present and Future of Watir

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

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Bret Pettichord (Watir Lead Developer), Charley Baker (Watir Lead Developer) and Željko Filipin (Watir Community Manager) talk about the past, the present and the future of Watir.

  • 0:00 – music
  • 1:00 – introduction
  • 2:11 – Bret on what is new in Watir 1.6.5
  • 2:54 – downloads
    • gemcutter.org/gems/watir
    • gemcutter.org/gems/firewatir
    • gemcutter.org/gems/commonwatir
    • rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=104
  • 5:15 – in the year since the last release of Watir (1.6.2) more people contributed to 1.6.5 than ever before, thanks to GitHub
  • 7:40 – all Watir drivers now at watir.com
  • 9:29 – Charley on releasing Watir 1.6.5
  • 12:47 – move more gems in Watir, or separate all gems?
  • 17:00 – Watir 2.0
  • 20:50 – WatirSpec, results + todo (793 examples, 59 failures)
  • 22:29 – Celerity
  • 24:16 – FFI extension for Ruby
  • 30:10 – WatiN, Watij
  • 32:31 – Bret: “Watin is in the wrong language.”
  • 36:16 – Bret: “Selenium … does not use any special facilities from any language that it works in, and therefore it is kinda clumsy in most of them.”
  • 36:54 – summary of Watir 1.6.5
  • 38:53 – AWTA 2010
  • 39:50 – Watir 1.7 (pop ups, cookies)
  • 46:08 – API changes in Watir 2.0 (hashes, 0-based indexing)
  • 49:18 – early days of Watir
  • 54:15 – closing
  • 55:19 – you can donate to Watir at watir.com
  • 55:37 – our sites
  • 56:48 – music

Music at the beginning and the end of the podcast is Easy to Love by Chris McMahon.

 
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Tags: Bret Pettichord, Charley Baker, Chris McMahon, Skype
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#22 Bret Pettichord on WatirCraft

Friday, April 10th, 2009

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Željko Filipin talks with Bret Pettichord (CTO, WatirCraft LLC; Lead Developer, Watir) about WatirCraft, a testing framework that builds on Watir.

Thanks to Chuck van der Linden for a lot of questions for this podcast.

Music at the beginning and the end of the podcast is the world premiere of G Blues Train Intro by my brother Marko Filipin.

 
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Tags: Bret Pettichord, Marko Filipin, WatirCraft
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#19 Bret Pettichord on Git

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

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Željko Filipin talks with Bret Pettichord (CTO, WatirCraft LLC; Lead Developer, Watir) on moving Watir code to Git and Github.

Music at the beginning and the end of the podcast is Make You Mine by Gregg Yows.

 
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Tags: Bret Pettichord, Gregg Yows, WatirCraft
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#7 Bret Pettichord on FireWatir

Friday, September 26th, 2008

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Željko Filipin talks with Bret Pettichord (CTO, WatirCraft LLC; Lead Developer, Watir) about merging Watir and FireWatir.

Music at the beginning and the end is Hear that guitar ring from James Rogers Blues Band, selected by Željko.

 
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Tags: Bret Pettichord, James Rogers Blues Band, Skype, WatirCraft
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#1 Bret Pettichord on Watir

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

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Željko Filipin talks with Bret Pettichord (CTO, WatirCraft LLC; Lead Developer, Watir) about Watir and what it does and doesn’t do well. Bret describes how people are building frameworks with Watir and the reasons why Watir was created in the first place. Also included are his thoughts on recorders and open-source and his new company, WatirCraft.

Note: When Bret talks about ssh, he is thinking about ssl.

 
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